Weekly digest
Week of 11 May 2026
60 of 64 listed below
64 new roles this week across 30 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+13), K2 Space (+6), xAI (+4).
ML engineering
- AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Data Scientist, Core Experimentation — OpenAI
Applied AI
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Lead - AI Engineer — Reflection AI Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
- Sales Engineer (Bay Area) — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- Applied AI Architect - Tokyo — OpenAI
- AI Strategist, Healthcare Solutions — Distyl AI Builds customized generative AI systems and operating platforms for enterprise transformation
Infrastructure
- Member of Technical Staff — Performance — RadixArk Builds open-source inference and training infrastructure systems for AI applications
- Senior Data Center Capacity Delivery Manager, AUS — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Tech Lead, Deployment & Operations — Custom Infrastructure — OpenAI
- Site Reliability Engineer — Baseten Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
- Software Engineer, Hardware Health — OpenAI
- Electrical Commissioning Technician - Memphis — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Electrical Engineer - Memphis — xAI
- Application Security Engineer — Lovable AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
Data
- Data Engineer — CuspAI Uses AI and molecular simulation to accelerate materials discovery for pharma, biotech, and clean energy
- Data Engineer, Core Experimentation — OpenAI
- Data Scientist, Safety — OpenAI
- Data Annotation Specialist — Dyna Robotics Autonomous robotic arms that complete end-to-end workflows in hospitality, logistics, and factory operations
Software
- Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Platform — Lovable
- Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Product — Lovable
- Principal Software Engineer — Mach Industries Develops low-cost autonomous aerospace and defense systems including drones, munitions, and propulsion compone
- Senior Software Engineer, Database (SmithDB) — LangChain
- Software Engineer, Platform (Runtime) — Lovable
- Software Engineer, Agent Harness — Cartesia Real-time speech and transcription models for voice agents with low-latency State Space Model architecture
- OS Platform Engineer — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
Hardware
- Shipyard Manufacturing Engineering Manager — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Senior Robot Infrastructure Engineer — Skild AI Builds foundation models for general-purpose robots that adapt across hardware and tasks
- Mechatronics Technician — Skild AI
- Robotics Technician — Skild AI
- Guidance Navigation & Control (GNC) Engineer — K2 Space
- RF Hardware Engineer — K2 Space
- Engineering Technician — Chariot Defense Portable modular power systems for military operations supporting drones, sensors, and directed energy systems
- Construction Quality Inspector — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
Science
- Head of Medicinal Chemistry, Drug Design, London — Isomorphic Laboratories Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
Design
- Product Designer — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
Go-to-market
- Account Director, Digital Natives — OpenAI
- Customer Success Manager, Ads Solutions (New York City) — OpenAI
- Support Delivery Lead, EMEA - Dublin — OpenAI
- Account Manager - Japan — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
- Strategic Partnerships Manager — Cartesia
- Scaled Enterprise Customer Success Manager — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Lead Client Service Manager — WithCoverage Digital platform for managing insurance policies, claims, and risk for CPG brands and growing businesses
- Account Executive - North Asia — ElevenLabs
- Enterprise Account Executive — Perplexity
- Account Associate - Singapore (ANZ Market) — OpenAI
Operations
- Head of Commercial Legal — fal Serverless GPU platform for deploying and fine-tuning generative AI models at scale
- Corporate Development Manager — Saronic
- IT Infrastructure Manager — Saronic
- Supply Chain Operations Program Manager, AI Infrastructure — OpenAI
- Supply Chain Program Manager (SCPM) - AI Infrastructure — OpenAI
- Senior Cost Accounting Manager — K2 Space
- Senior Launch Mission Manager — K2 Space
- GTM Recruiter — Baseten
- Recruiting Coordinator - Memphis — xAI
- Technical Recruiter - Memphis — xAI
- Technical Recruiter — K2 Space
- Operations - Generalist / Business Operations — Valthos AI systems that identify biological threats and design medical countermeasures in real time
- Platform Product Reliability — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
- Finance — Long Lake Applies frontier AI technology in partnership with management teams across American services
General
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