Weekly digest
Week of 12 January 2026
40 new roles this week across 15 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+7), Etched (+6), Valar Atomics (+5).
Research
- Research Engineer, Economic Research Data Platform — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Research Engineer, Visual Knowledge Work — Anthropic
- Research Scientist/Engineer, Biological Safety — Anthropic
ML engineering
- Technical Recruiter (Supercomputing/ML) — 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
Infrastructure
- Head of Engineering, Platform — Goodfire Goodfire is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation focused on AI interpretability and safety
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude App Infrastructure — Anthropic
- Sr. Security Engineer - GRC Frameworks & AI Governance — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Security Architect — Goodfire
- Kernel Driver Software Engineer — Etched
Software
- Member of Technical Staff - Safety — Reflection AI Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
- Member of Technical Staff - Systems — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems — Modal
- Deployed Engineer (UK) — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- AI Support Engineer - Dublin — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Full Stack Software Engineer, Health AI — OpenAI
- Software Engineer – Performance Profiling — Etched
Hardware
- Sr. Thermal Engineer, Liquid Cooling Systems — Etched
- Mine Maintenance Technician — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Health Physics Technician (HPT) — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Instrumentation & Controls Technician — Valar Atomics
- Mechanical Engineer — Etched
Science
Go-to-market
- Account Manager - Mid-Market — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
- Account Manager - Strategic — ElevenLabs
- Executive Communications Manager — Perplexity
- Product Marketing Manager — Perplexity
- Commercial Counsel, GTM — Anthropic
- Business Development — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Enterprise Sales Leader — Sierra
- Account Executive - Southeast Asia — ElevenLabs
- Recruiter (G&A/GTM) — Etched
Operations
- Safety Response Operations Lead — OpenAI
- Business Operations Manager — Goodfire
- Nuclear Operations Manager — Valar Atomics
- Talent — Chai Discovery AI platform that designs molecules and predicts biochemical interactions for drug discovery
- Strategic Project Associate — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
Other
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