Weekly digest
Week of 13 April 2026
59 new roles this week across 21 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+8), Etched (+6), Saronic (+5).
Research
- Member of Technical Staff (Answer Quality & Evals) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff - Multimodal Understanding — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) — Perplexity
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer) — Perplexity
- Full-Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Agentic Finance Engineer — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
Applied AI
- Applied AI Architect, Commercial — Anthropic
- Deployed Engineer (Charlotte) — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- Deployed Engineer (Raleigh) — LangChain
- ChatGPT Performance Engineer — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Full Stack Software Engineer, Education — OpenAI
- Forward Deployed Engineer — Goodfire Goodfire is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation focused on AI interpretability and safety
Infrastructure
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) — Perplexity
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer) — Perplexity
- Senior Engineer, Infrastructure Services — Ornn Ornn is a financial technology platform specializing in AI compute risk management infrastructure
- Software Engineer, Kernel Performance & AI Tooling — OpenAI
- Software Engineer, Security Observability — OpenAI
- Security Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure — Mercor
Software
- Systems Software Engineer — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Software Engineer, Agent — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Software Engineer, Foundations Search — OpenAI
- Software Engineer - Consumer Subscriptions — xAI
- Software Engineer - X Money — xAI
- Software Engineer, X Money — xAI
- Embedded Software Engineer, Platform — Hark AI Builds multimodal AI agents with speech, vision, and text that learn your preferences and proactively complete
Hardware
- Staff Naval Architect — Saronic
- Manager, Piping Design & Engineering — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Senior Naval Architect — Saronic
- Senior System Architect — Fractile Builds specialized processors that fuse computation with memory to run large language models up to 25x faster
- Senior System Architect — Fractile
- Senior System Architect — Fractile
- Senior System Architect — Fractile
- Mechanical Design Drafter (Hardware) — Saronic
- Naval Architect – Commercial Vessels — Saronic
- Data Center Infrastructure Electrical Engineer — OpenAI
- Rust SW-Silicon Co-verification Engineer — MatX Designs high-throughput chips optimized for training and inference of large language models
- Electrical Engineer, Implant Embedded Systems — Neuralink Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
- Design Verification Engineer - Interface IP — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
- Design Verification Engineer - Internal IP — Etched
- Design Verification Engineer - SoC — Etched
- Physical Design Engineer — Etched
- Product Design Engineer, Thermals — Hark AI
- Electrical Engineer Intern, Implant Embedded Systems — Neuralink
- DFT Intern — Etched
Science
- Head of Scientific Applications, Singapore — CuspAI Uses AI and molecular simulation to accelerate materials discovery for pharma, biotech, and clean energy
Product
Design
- Staff / Principal Product Designer — Lovable AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
Go-to-market
- Account Director, Large Enterprise (FSI) — OpenAI
- Demand Generation Lead — Goodfire
- Product Marketing Lead — Goodfire
- Enterprise Account Executive (NYC) — LangChain
- Enterprise Account Executive (Stockholm) — LangChain
- Enterprise Account Executive - Munich — LangChain
- Strategic Account Executive — Applied Compute Platform for training, deploying, and improving custom AI agents on enterprise data
Operations
- Payroll Manager — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Technical Program Manager, Infrastructure — Etched
- Administrative Generalist — Mercor
- Founding Recruiter, India — Cartesia Real-time speech and transcription models for voice agents with low-latency State Space Model architecture
General
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