Weekly digest
Week of 18 May 2026
60 of 106 listed below
106 new roles this week across 33 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+18), Anthropic (+8), Fractile (+7).
Research
- Security Researcher, Agentic AI Threats — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Software Engineer, RL Training Infra — OpenAI
- Applied AI Researcher, Multi-Agent Systems — Distyl AI Builds customized generative AI systems and operating platforms for enterprise transformation
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed AI Engineer — Inception Labs Diffusion-based language models that generate text 5-7x faster and 70% cheaper than traditional LLMs
- 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 - Inference — Sail Research Cost-efficient inference API for long-horizon AI agents with completion windows that reduce token costs by up
- Performance Engineer, Inference Systems — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
Infrastructure
- Director of Product Finance, Compute & Infrastructure Demand — OpenAI
- Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Security — Lovable AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
- Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineering — Inception Labs
- Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems — Sail Research
- Systems Engineering Manager — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Engineering Manager, Distillation & Detection Platform — OpenAI
- Security Preparedness Lead, Coding Agents — OpenAI
- Strategic Sourcing Manager, Compute Infrastructure — OpenAI
- Data Center Electrical Engineer — Anthropic
- Data Center Mechanical Engineer — Anthropic
Data
- Data Annotation Specialist — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
Software
- Member of Technical Staff - Product (Growth) — Modal
- 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
- Member of Technical Staff - Agent Engineering — Sail Research
- Engineering Manager, Research Productivity — Anthropic
- 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 Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Senior Verification Engineer — Fractile
- Support Engineer — Anthropic
- Hardware Engineer - Forward Deployed — Saronic
- Welding Engineer — Saronic
- Enterprise Sales Engineer — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Data Engineer — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
- Enterprise Solutions Engineer - Germany — ElevenLabs
- Deployed Engineer (Bay Area) — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- Verification Engineer — Fractile
Hardware
- Principal Electro-Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer — K2 Space
- Manufacturing Operations Technical Programme Manager – Silicon and Packaging — Fractile
- Mechanical Design Engineer, Tactile Sensing — Mind Robotics Develops industrial robots with generalized physical intelligence for factory automation
- Thermal Design Engineer — Mind Robotics
- Avionics Test Engineer, Optical — K2 Space
- Engineering Technician — Generalist AI Generalist is an AI robotics company focused on developing general-purpose robots with advanced capabilities
Product
Design
- Senior Designer, Brand Identity (Contract) — Skild AI Builds foundation models for general-purpose robots that adapt across hardware and tasks
- Interface Designer — Hark AI Builds multimodal AI agents with speech, vision, and text that learn your preferences and proactively complete
Go-to-market
- General Manager - Mexico — ElevenLabs
- General Manager - Spain — ElevenLabs
- Account Director, Mid-Market — OpenAI
- Head of Ads Enterprise Marketing — OpenAI
- Economic Mobility Partnerships Manager - Career Pathways — Anthropic
- Field Marketing Manager, Startups — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
Operations
- Principal Recruiter, Strategic AI Talent — OpenAI
- Brand Editorial Lead — Lovable
- Office Manager — Generalist AI
- Procurement & Finance Operations Manager — Periodic Labs Builds AI scientists and autonomous laboratories to accelerate discovery in physical sciences
- Senior Counsel, Regulatory — Saronic
Other
- 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
- Business Intelligence Systems Manager, Commercial Projects — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Project Manager, Commercial Projects — Valar Atomics
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