Weekly digest
Week of 16 February 2026
45 new roles this week across 15 companies; the biggest movers: Saronic (+7), Latent Labs (+7), K2 Space (+5).
Research
- Member of Technical Staff — Latent Labs Latent Labs is an AI foundation model company specializing in programmable biology
- Member of Technical Staff — Latent Labs
- Research Engineer, Pretraining — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Research Engineer / Scientist (SLAM) — World Labs Builds 3D world generation models that create spatially consistent environments from text, images, and video
- Computational Protein Designer — Latent Labs
- Computational Protein Designer — Latent Labs
ML engineering
- Head of Inference Performance Visibility — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
- Member of Technical Staff — Inference-Core Engine — RadixArk Builds open-source inference and training infrastructure systems for AI applications
- Member of Technical Staff — Inference-Multimodal & Diffusion — RadixArk
- Member of Technical Staff — Training — RadixArk
Applied AI
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI — Latent Labs
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI — Latent Labs
- Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployed — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Senior Software Engineer - Forward Deployed — Saronic
- Solutions Architect — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- エンタープライズ・セールス・エンジニア (Enterprise Sales Engineer) — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Forward Deployed AI Engineer — Latent Labs
Infrastructure
- Principal Satellite Platform Engineer — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Member of Technical Staff — Cluster Infrastructure & Supercomputing — RadixArk
- Member of Technical Staff — Inference-Kernel, Compiler & Communication — RadixArk
- Senior Data Center Operations Technician - Memphis — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Senior Facilities Operations Technician - Memphis — xAI
- Security Engineer — Etched
Data
- Member of Data Staff (Data Scientist) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
Software
- Foundry Full Stack Engineer — Saronic
- Software Engineer, Observability — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Mobile Android Engineer — xAI
- Mobile iOS Engineer — xAI
- Software Engineer — Mechanize Builds simulated work environments and evaluations for training AI agents on complex tasks
- Developer Experience Engineer — Etched
- IT Engineer — Etched
Hardware
- Senior Mission Engineer — K2 Space
- Hardware Support Engineer II — Dyna Robotics Autonomous robotic arms that complete end-to-end workflows in hospitality, logistics, and factory operations
- Shipyard Build Strategy Engineer — Saronic
- Shipyard Industrial Engineer — Saronic
- Product Manufacturing Engineer — OpenAI
- Hardware/ Software Co-Design Engineer — Neuralink Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
- Analog and Mixed-Signal IC Design Engineer Intern — Neuralink
Product
Go-to-market
Operations
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