Weekly digest
Week of 2 March 2026
28 new roles this week across 10 companies; the biggest movers: K2 Space (+7), Anthropic (+4), Chai Discovery (+4).
Research
- Research Scientist — Chai Discovery AI platform that designs molecules and predicts biochemical interactions for drug discovery
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Model — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
Applied AI
- Software Engineer - Forward Deployed — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Forward-Deployed Scientist — Chai Discovery
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Seattle — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
Infrastructure
Software
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Observability — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineer — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Member of Technical Staff - Grok Product — xAI
- Member of Technical Staff - Imagine Product — xAI
- Software Engineer, Pathology and Digital Imaging — Neuralink Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
- Software Engineer, Robot Manufacturing — Neuralink
Hardware
- Principal Mechanical Engineer — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Principal Vehicle & Mission Operations Engineer — K2 Space
- Member of Technical Staff, Humanoid Engineer — xDOF XDOF is the infrastructure partner for the world's most ambitious robotics builders
- Senior Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technician — K2 Space
- Senior PCBA Rework Technician — K2 Space
- Hardware Tools Engineer — OpenAI
- Solar Production Technician — K2 Space
- Spacecraft Avionics Harness Technician — K2 Space
- Spacecraft Integration Engineering Technician — K2 Space
Go-to-market
Operations
- Technical Program Manager, Compute — Anthropic
- Research Program Manager — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Recruiting Operations — Mercor
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