Weekly digest
Week of 2 February 2026
40 new roles this week across 15 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+10), OpenAI (+9), Etched (+7).
ML engineering
- Staff Software Engineer, Inference — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Technical Program Manager, Safeguards (Infrastructure & Evals) — Anthropic
- Software Engineering Manager, AI Observability & Evals Platform (San Francisco, CA) — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- Machine Learning Engineer, Distributed Data Systems - Robotics — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Network Engineer - ML Infrastructure (High-Speed Interconnects) — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
Infrastructure
- Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure — Anthropic
- Systems Engineering Manager — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Bus Vehicle Lead — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Software Engineer, Identity & Enterprise Platform — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Backend Software Engineer, GTM Innovation — OpenAI
- Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure - HPC — OpenAI
- Electrical Platform Intern — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
- Infrastructure Intern — Etched
Software
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability — Anthropic
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering — Anthropic
- Staff Software Engineer, AI Reliability Engineering — Anthropic
- Senior Quality Engineer — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Model Performance Software Engineer, Claude Code — Anthropic
- Systems Architecture, Integration, and Test Engineer (Electrical and/or Software) — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Developer Relations Engineer — Sierra
- EDA Algorithm Engineer — Ricursive Intelligence Designs AI chips using machine learning to optimize semiconductor development and inference performance
- ASIC Firmware Engineer, Modeling — OpenAI
- Full Stack Software Engineer, GTM Innovation — OpenAI
- Product Engineer, GTM Innovation — OpenAI
- Software Engineer (Deployment Systems) — Mach Industries Develops low-cost autonomous aerospace and defense systems including drones, munitions, and propulsion compone
- Software Engineer, Research Acceleration — Thinking Machines Lab Builds customizable, multimodal AI systems emphasizing human-AI collaboration and model interpretability
- Process Engineer — Substrate Builds next-generation semiconductor fabrication technology to extend Moore's Law and reduce fab costs
- Hardware Validation Engineer — Etched
Hardware
Product
Go-to-market
- Senior Partner Account Manager –Global Systems Integrator Alliances — Anthropic
- Deployment Strategist — Serval AI-powered enterprise service management platform that automates employee requests, onboarding, and IT operati
Operations
Other
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