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Week of 13 July 2026

114 new roles this week across 37 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+15), Anthropic (+12), Mercor (+8).

Research

  1. Research Lead, Training — Goodfire · Series B · SF Bay Area · $400K–600K · 12 weeks ago Goodfire is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation focused on AI interpretability and safety
  2. Research Engineer, Chip Design RL (Reinforcement Learning) — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $500K–850K · 12 weeks ago Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
  3. Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Computational) — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $300K–320K · 12 weeks ago
  4. Research Engineer, Privacy — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $0–500K · 12 weeks ago Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use

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ML engineering

  1. Member of Technical Staff - RL Training Framework — xAI · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $180K–440K · 12 weeks ago Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
  2. AI Engineer - Backend/Platform — Traversal · New York · 12 weeks ago AI-powered platform that automates root cause detection and remediation for production incidents in enterprise
  3. MLFF Distillation & GCMC Integration - Internship — CuspAI · Series B · London · 12 weeks ago Uses AI and molecular simulation to accelerate materials discovery for pharma, biotech, and clean energy

Applied AI

  1. Deployment Lead, Semiconductors- SF — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $200K–295K · 12 weeks ago
  2. Applied AI Engineer, Plugins — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $197K–280K · 12 weeks ago
  3. Enterprise Applied AI Leader — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $300K–520K · 12 weeks ago Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking

Infrastructure

  1. Staff+ Software Engineer, Capacity Engineering — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–485K · 12 weeks ago
  2. [Junior / Senior / Staff] Software Engineer, Inference / Compute Infrastructure Engineering — Together AI · Seed · SF Bay Area · $160K–280K · 12 weeks ago Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
  3. MTS Lead, Identity and Access Management — Reflection AI · Series B · New York · 12 weeks ago Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
  4. MTS Lead, Technology & Security Engineering — Reflection AI · Series B · New York · 12 weeks ago
  5. Security Engineering Manager, London or Lausanne — Isomorphic Laboratories · Series B · Lausanne, CH · 12 weeks ago Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
  6. Lead Software Engineer, Kernels — MatX · Series B · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago Designs high-throughput chips optimized for training and inference of large language models
  7. Data Center Architect, CSA — Anthropic · Remote · $320K–405K · 12 weeks ago
  8. Security Compliance Specialist — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 12 weeks ago Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications

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Software

  1. Head of Ground Integration, Top Secret Clearance — K2 Space · Series D · Los Angeles · $200K–250K · 12 weeks ago Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
  2. Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Human Review Tooling — Anthropic · New York · $320K–485K · 12 weeks ago
  3. Staff Quality Engineer — Saronic · Series D · Austin · 12 weeks ago Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
  4. Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Applications — Reflection AI · Series B · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago
  5. Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Platform Foundations — Reflection AI · Series B · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago
  6. Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Shared Services — Reflection AI · Series B · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago
  7. Member of Technical Staff, iOS — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $160K–400K · 12 weeks ago
  8. Engineering Manager, Growth — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $405K–485K · 12 weeks ago
  9. Ground Integration Lead, Top Secret Clearance — K2 Space · Series D · Los Angeles · $200K–250K · 12 weeks ago
  10. Salesforce Business System Analyst — Saronic · Series D · Austin · 12 weeks ago

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Hardware

  1. BMC Firmware Engineer — MatX · Series B · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago
  2. Design Verification Engineer — MatX · Series B · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago
  3. SIPI Characterization Engineer — MatX · Series B · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago
  4. CNC Machine Programmer — Mach Industries · Series C · Huntington Beach, CA · USD 50–62/hour · 12 weeks ago Develops low-cost autonomous aerospace and defense systems including drones, munitions, and propulsion compone
  5. CNC Machinist — Mach Industries · Series C · Huntington Beach, CA · USD 28–44/hour · 12 weeks ago

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Science

  1. Life Sciences Operator, Lead — Anthropic · New York · $300K–320K · 12 weeks ago
  2. TRISO Chemical Plant Process Engineer — Valar Atomics · Orangeville, UT · 12 weeks ago Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
  3. Computational Scientist, Structural & Thermal — Periodic Labs · Seed · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago Builds AI scientists and autonomous laboratories to accelerate discovery in physical sciences

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Go-to-market

  1. Enterprise Sales Director - Majors, Healthcare — Sierra · Late Stage · Remote · CAD 370,000–415,000/year · 12 weeks ago Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
  2. Enterprise Sales Director - Majors, Retail — Sierra · Late Stage · Remote · CAD 370,000–415,000/year · 12 weeks ago
  3. Field Marketing Lead, Public Sector — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–400K · 12 weeks ago
  4. Field Marketing Manager — Baseten · Late Stage · New York · $150K–175K · 12 weeks ago Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
  5. Support Delivery Lead — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $234K–260K · 12 weeks ago
  6. Support Delivery Lead, Ads — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $284K–315K · 12 weeks ago
  7. Support Delivery Lead, Government — OpenAI · Washington DC · $284K–315K · 12 weeks ago
  8. Customer Success Lead - Western Europe — ElevenLabs · Series C · Germany · 12 weeks ago AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
  9. Public Sector Partnerships Lead - Europe — ElevenLabs · Series C · London · 12 weeks ago
  10. Event Lead — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $160K–200K · 12 weeks ago
  11. Sales Lead — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $160K–180K · 12 weeks ago
  12. Associate Product Marketing Manager — Perplexity · Series C · SF Bay Area · $135K–180K · 12 weeks ago AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
  13. Growth Manager, Enterprise Lifecycle — Perplexity · Series C · SF Bay Area · $200K–250K · 12 weeks ago

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Operations

  1. Head of HR Business Partner — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 12 weeks ago
  2. Head of GTM Engineering & Systems — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $250K–270K · 12 weeks ago Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
  3. Head of Operations Planning — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $200K–250K · 12 weeks ago
  4. Member of Technical Staff — Company Building — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · 12 weeks ago Builds self-accelerating AI systems that automate AI research to advance science and engineering
  5. Product Engagement Manager, User Operations — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $279K–310K · 12 weeks ago
  6. Support Operations Lead — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $279K–310K · 12 weeks ago
  7. Strategic Project Lead — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $120K–200K · 12 weeks ago
  8. Global People Operations Lead — Lovable · Series B · Stockholm, SE · 12 weeks ago AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
  9. Senior Supply Chain Manager, Electronics — Hark AI · SF Bay Area · $120K–300K · 12 weeks ago Builds multimodal AI agents with speech, vision, and text that learn your preferences and proactively complete
  10. Senior People Business Partner — Baseten · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $180K–230K · 12 weeks ago
  11. Senior Buyer — Valar Atomics · Torrance, CA · $120K–160K · 12 weeks ago

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