Weekly digest
Week of 20 July 2026
60 of 137 listed below
137 new roles this week across 34 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+22), Anthropic (+14), K2 Space (+13).
Research
- Member of Technical Staff (Secure Intelligence Institute) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Research Engineer/Research Scientist- Personal AGI, Model Experience — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Research Engineer, Real Environments — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
ML engineering
- Staff Software Engineer, Code RL — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Safeguards Research — Anthropic
- Applied Machine Learning Engineer, EMEA — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Applied Machine Learning Engineer, Singapore — Fireworks AI
Applied AI
- Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo — OpenAI
- Deployment Strategist Lead - Nordics — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
- Technical Account Manager — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- AI Field Engineer, EMEA — Fireworks AI
- AI Field Engineer, Singapore — Fireworks AI
Infrastructure
- Staff Software Engineer, Environments Infrastructure — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff - Security Engineering — Fractile Builds specialized processors that fuse computation with memory to run large language models up to 25x faster
- Member of Technical Staff - Security Engineering — Fractile
- Engineering Manager - Compilers — Fractile
- Engineering Manager - Compilers — Fractile
- Technical Compute Qualification Manager — Together AI Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
- Senior Build Reliability Engineer — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
Data
- Member of Technical Staff - Data Platform — Reflection AI Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
- Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Data Ingestion — Reflection AI
- Member of Data Staff (Data Acceleration) — Perplexity
Software
- Staff Software Engineer, Growth — Anthropic
- Staff Software Engineer, GTM Systems — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff, Backend — Mercor
- Member of Technical Staff — Developer Experience — RadixArk Builds open-source inference and training infrastructure systems for AI applications
Hardware
- Principal Thermal Design Engineer — K2 Space
- Manager, Electrical Engineering — Mind Robotics Develops industrial robots with generalized physical intelligence for factory automation
- Senior Avionics Test Engineer, Optical — K2 Space
- Senior Development Test Technician — K2 Space
- Senior Optomechanical Engineer — K2 Space
- Senior Thermal Analyst — K2 Space
- Senior Thermal Control System (TCS) Design Engineer — K2 Space
- Senior Thermal Design Engineer — K2 Space
Product
- Product Manager, Research (Code) — Anthropic
- Product Manager, Agent Development (Spanish speaking) — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Product Manager, Enterprise — OpenRouter Unified API gateway providing access to 500+ AI models across 80+ providers with intelligent routing
- Product Manager, Applied AI — Mercor
Design
- Senior Prop Artist — Genesis AI Develops general-purpose robots powered by foundation models for physical tasks across factories, hospitals, a
- Product Designer — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
Go-to-market
- VP, Global Developer Relations — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- Enterprise Sales Director - Majors — Sierra
- Enterprise Sales Director - Majors — Sierra
- Director, Growth Marketing — OpenRouter
- Account Director, Digital Native Large Enterprise — OpenAI
- Cloud Partner Enablement Lead — Anthropic
- Business Development Manager – Special Operations (SOCOM) — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Communications Manager, Monetization — OpenAI
- Account Manager - India — ElevenLabs
Operations
- Director, Technical Accounting - M&A — Anthropic
- Senior Manager, Finance Systems - Treasury — Anthropic
- Technical Program Manager, GTM Systems — Anthropic
- Research Program Manager, Human Data Campaigns — OpenAI
- Senior Manager, Ads Revenue Accounting — OpenAI
- Senior Manager, Extended Workforce Program — OpenAI
- Strategic Technology Negotiations Lead — OpenAI
- Procurement Manager — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- GTM Strategy & Operations Lead — Perplexity
- Program Manager, Talent Acquisition — Perplexity
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