Weekly digest
Week of 12 January 2026
28 new roles this week across 14 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+5), Etched (+5), OpenAI (+3).
Research
- Member of Technical Staff - Safety — Reflection AI Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
- Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety — Anthropic
ML engineering
- MTS, Inference Performance Visibility — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
- Internship - Search Machine Learning Engineer — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
Applied AI
- Deployed Engineer (UK) — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
Infrastructure
Software
- Head of Engineering, Platform — Goodfire Goodfire is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation focused on AI interpretability and safety
- Member of Technical Staff - Systems — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Software Engineer, Consumer Health — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
Hardware
- Sr. Thermal Engineer, Liquid Cooling Systems — Etched
- Instrumentation & Electrical Technician — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Mechanical Engineer — Etched
Go-to-market
- Executive Communications Manager — Perplexity
- Product Marketing Manager — Perplexity
- Enterprise Sales Leader — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- AI Support Engineer - Dublin — OpenAI
- Account Executive - Southeast Asia — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
Operations
- Safety Response Operations Lead — OpenAI
- Business Operations Manager — Goodfire
- Nuclear Operations Manager — Valar Atomics
- Sr. Security Engineer - GRC Frameworks & AI Governance — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Commercial Counsel, GTM — Anthropic
- Technical Cyber Threat Investigator — Anthropic
- Talent — Chai Discovery AI platform that designs molecules and predicts biochemical interactions for drug discovery
- Technical Recruiter (Inference) — Etched
- Strategic Project Associate — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
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