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Week of 22 June 2026

100 new roles this week across 30 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+27), Mirendil (+8), K2 Space (+6).

Research

  1. Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, RL — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago Builds self-accelerating AI systems that automate AI research to advance science and engineering
  2. Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, RL Environments — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago
  3. Member of Technical Staff, Pretraining — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago
  4. Research Engineering Lead — Lovable · Series B · Stockholm, SE · 15 weeks ago AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
  5. Research Engineer, RL Scaling Science — Anthropic · London · GBP 375,000–640,000/year · 15 weeks ago Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
  6. AI Scientist — Mistral AI · Series D · Warsaw, PL · 15 weeks ago Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
  7. Agent Post-Training Research — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $380K–500K · 15 weeks ago Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
  8. Agent Post-Training, API & Power Users — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $380K–500K · 15 weeks ago

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ML engineering

  1. Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Autonomy) — Mariana Minerals · Series B · SF Bay Area · $160K–200K · 15 weeks ago Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
  2. Member of Technical Staff, Inference — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago
  3. Member of Technical Staff, Model Evaluation — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago
  4. Engineering Manager, MLE — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $500K–555K · 15 weeks ago

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Applied AI

  1. Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering- NYC — OpenAI · New York City, NY · $302K–385K · 15 weeks ago
  2. Applied AI, Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer - Paris — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 15 weeks ago
  3. Applied AI Engineer, Cyber — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $211K–292K · 15 weeks ago
  4. Forward Deployed Engineer - Seoul — OpenAI · Seoul, KR · 15 weeks ago

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Infrastructure

  1. Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Infrastructure, Singapore — Fireworks AI · Series D · Singapore · SGD 180,000–250,000/year · 15 weeks ago Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
  2. Staff Security Reliability Engineer — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $347K–510K · 15 weeks ago
  3. Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago
  4. Member of Technical Staff, Kernels — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago
  5. Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training, RL Infra — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago
  6. Manager, Fiber - Memphis — xAI · Late Stage · Southaven, MS · 15 weeks ago Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
  7. Deployed Infrastructure Engineer — Sierra · Late Stage · London · GBP 190,000–285,000/year · 15 weeks ago Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
  8. Security Software Engineer — RunSybil · United States · 15 weeks ago AI platform that continuously tests applications and infrastructure for exploitable vulnerabilities by reasoni
  9. Network Engineer, Supercomputing — Thinking Machines Lab · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago Builds customizable, multimodal AI systems emphasizing human-AI collaboration and model interpretability

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Data

  1. Sr. IT Data Engineer — xAI · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $172K–258K · 15 weeks ago
  2. Senior Data Analyst — K2 Space · Series D · Los Angeles · $140K–180K · 15 weeks ago Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
  3. Data Engineer, Machine Learning — Sesame AI · Series B · SF Bay Area · $170K–280K · 15 weeks ago Sesame Technology is a multifaceted technology company with diverse offerings

Software

  1. Senior Software Engineer - Research Platform, Consumer Devices — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $293K–325K · 15 weeks ago
  2. Frontend Engineer - Dedicated Inference — Baseten · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $190K–300K · 15 weeks ago Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
  3. Software Engineer, Agent (Brazilian Portuguese speaking) — Sierra · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $180K–390K · 15 weeks ago
  4. Full Stack Software Engineer, API Experience — OpenAI · New York City, NY · $266K–385K · 15 weeks ago

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Hardware

  1. Principal ASIC Design Verification Engineer — K2 Space · Series D · Remote · $190K–285K · 15 weeks ago
  2. Lead Fiber Technician - Memphis — xAI · Late Stage · Southaven, MS · 15 weeks ago
  3. Senior ASIC Design Verification Engineer — K2 Space · Series D · Remote · $170K–250K · 15 weeks ago
  4. Senior Hardware Reliability Engineer — K2 Space · Series D · Los Angeles · $140K–175K · 15 weeks ago
  5. Senior Avionics Specialist — Mach Industries · Series C · Huntington Beach, CA · USD 30–40/hour · 15 weeks ago Develops low-cost autonomous aerospace and defense systems including drones, munitions, and propulsion compone
  6. Senior Test & Integration Engineer — Mach Industries · Series C · Huntington Beach, CA · $160K–200K · 15 weeks ago
  7. Prototyping Lab Technician, Robotics — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $225K–295K · 15 weeks ago
  8. RTL Design Engineer – Interconnect & Network Datapath — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $225K–445K · 15 weeks ago
  9. Supplier Development Engineer, Avionics — K2 Space · Series D · Los Angeles · $110K–145K · 15 weeks ago

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Product

  1. Staff Product Manager — Mariana Minerals · Series B · SF Bay Area · $180K–210K · 15 weeks ago
  2. Product Manager — Liquid AI · Seed · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago Builds efficient foundation models that run on-device across phones, cars, and edge hardware without sending d
  3. Product Manager, AI Infrastructure — Together AI · Seed · SF Bay Area · $175K–220K · 15 weeks ago Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools

Design

  1. Motion Designer — Sierra · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $170K–200K · 15 weeks ago

Go-to-market

  1. Account Director, Insurance — OpenAI · New York City, NY · $189K–240K · 15 weeks ago
  2. Account Director, Large Enterprise — OpenAI · Munich · 15 weeks ago
  3. Account Director, Life Sciences — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $189K–240K · 15 weeks ago
  4. Head of Distribution Partnerships — Together AI · Seed · SF Bay Area · $300K–350K · 15 weeks ago
  5. Partnerships Lead — Fireworks AI · Series D · New York · $275K–300K · 15 weeks ago

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Operations

  1. Head of Engineering Programs — Mariana Minerals · Series B · SF Bay Area · $180K–240K · 15 weeks ago
  2. Legal Program Manager, Compute & Infrastructure — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $285K–340K · 15 weeks ago
  3. Field Productivity & Enablement Lead — Baseten · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $185K–205K · 15 weeks ago
  4. Technical Program Manager, Hardware — Mind Robotics · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago Develops industrial robots with generalized physical intelligence for factory automation
  5. Enablement Lead (Builder) - Tokyo — OpenAI · Tokyo · 15 weeks ago
  6. Research Communications Manager — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $185K–205K · 15 weeks ago
  7. Senior Technical Program Manager - Security — OpenAI · Remote · $165K–285K · 15 weeks ago
  8. Strategic Project Lead — xDOF · Series B · SF Bay Area · 15 weeks ago XDOF is the infrastructure partner for the world's most ambitious robotics builders
  9. Project Manager, Construction Management — Neuralink · Series E · Austin · $71K–119K · 15 weeks ago Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
  10. Strategic Finance Lead — Sail Research · Series A · SF Bay Area · $200K–300K · 15 weeks ago Cost-efficient inference API for long-horizon AI agents with completion windows that reduce token costs by up

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