Weekly digest
Week of 18 May 2026
60 of 78 listed below
78 new roles this week across 29 companies; the biggest movers: Fractile (+14), OpenAI (+8), Etched (+6).
Research
- Applied AI Researcher, Multi-Agent Systems — Distyl AI Builds customized generative AI systems and operating platforms for enterprise transformation
ML engineering
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Voice AI — Together AI Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
- Member of Technical Staff - Agent Engineering — Sail Research Cost-efficient inference API for long-horizon AI agents with completion windows that reduce token costs by up
- Member of Technical Staff - Inference — Sail Research
- Performance Engineer, Inference Systems — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
Applied AI
- Applied AI Architect, Digital Natives Business — Anthropic
- Hardware Engineer - Forward Deployed — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Deployed Engineer (Bay Area) — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- Enterprise Sales Engineer — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Forward Deployed Security Engineer — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
Infrastructure
- Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Security — Lovable AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
- Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems — Sail Research
- Capacity Systems Software Engineer — OpenAI
- Infrastructure Security Engineer — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
- Civil Engineer — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Electrician (Construction) - Memphis — xAI
Data
Software
- Member of Technical Staff - Product (Growth) — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Engineering Manager, Research Productivity — Anthropic
- Systems Engineering Manager — Modal
- Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform — OpenAI
- Support Engineer — Anthropic
- Release Engineer | Consumer Devices — OpenAI
- Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise Operations — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Software Engineer, CI/CD — Neuralink Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
Hardware
- Principal Build & Integration Engineer — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Principal Integration & Test Engineer — K2 Space
- Senior Logical Design Engineer — Fractile Builds specialized processors that fuse computation with memory to run large language models up to 25x faster
- Senior Logical Design Engineer — Fractile
- Senior Logical Design Engineer — Fractile
- Senior Logical Design Engineer — Fractile
- Senior Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Senior Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Senior Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Senior Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Mechanical Design Engineer, Tactile Sensing — Mind Robotics Develops industrial robots with generalized physical intelligence for factory automation
- Thermal Design Engineer — Mind Robotics
- Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Robotics Application Engineer — Skild AI Builds foundation models for general-purpose robots that adapt across hardware and tasks
- Avionics Test Engineer, Optical — K2 Space
- Robotics Technician — Generalist AI Generalist is an AI robotics company focused on developing general-purpose robots with advanced capabilities
- AI Chip Architect — MatX Designs high-throughput chips optimized for training and inference of large language models
Science
Design
- Interface Designer — Hark AI Builds multimodal AI agents with speech, vision, and text that learn your preferences and proactively complete
Go-to-market
Operations
- Risk Team Director - Real Estate — WithCoverage Digital platform for managing insurance policies, claims, and risk for CPG brands and growing businesses
- Head of Procurement — American Terawatt Builds a national HVDC transmission network for large industrial electricity loads
- Shipyard Technical Manager — Saronic
- Strategic Sourcing Manager, Compute Infrastructure — OpenAI
- Technical Program Manager, Support Delivery — OpenAI
- Manufacturing Operations Technical Programme Manager – Silicon and Packaging — Fractile
- Manufacturing Operations Technical Programme Manager – Silicon and Packaging — Fractile
- Project Manager, Commercial Projects — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Procurement & Finance Operations Manager — Periodic Labs Builds AI scientists and autonomous laboratories to accelerate discovery in physical sciences
- Strategist, Agent Development (Cantonese Speaking) — Sierra
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