Weekly digest
Week of 10 August 2026
60 of 239 listed below
239 new roles this week across 39 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+41), OpenAI (+35), xAI (+19).
Research
- Staff+ Researcher, Cybersecurity Products — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Member of Technical Staff - Post-Training — Reflection AI Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
- Researcher, Frontier Risk Mitigations — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise Evals Platform — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Ranking Quality - Search) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Multimodal) — Perplexity
- Applied AI/ML Engineer (Agents) — CuspAI Uses AI and molecular simulation to accelerate materials discovery for pharma, biotech, and clean energy
Applied AI
- AI Operations Engineer, Partnerships — Anthropic
- Applied AI Engineer, Prototyping — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Sydney — OpenAI
- Deployment Strategist - Sweden — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
Infrastructure
- Head of Security — Nous Research Develops open-source AI agents and language models for local inference and distributed training
- Staff Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Distributed Systems) — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Compute Platform — Reflection AI
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure — fal Serverless GPU platform for deploying and fine-tuning generative AI models at scale
- Member of Technical Staff, Deeptune Environments — Mercor
Data
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Data — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff - Engineering Lead, Data Platform — Reflection AI
- Human Data Manager — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
Software
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Ecosystem — Anthropic
- Staff / Principal Software Engineer, Detection and Response — Lovable AI platform that generates production-ready web applications and websites from natural language descriptions
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Acceleration) — Perplexity
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, API Platform) — Perplexity
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Design System) — Perplexity
- Staff Full-Stack Product Engineer — Traversal AI-powered platform that automates root cause detection and remediation for production incidents in enterprise
- Engineering Manager, Agent — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
Hardware
- Electrical Engineer - Platforms (Associate - Principal) — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Principal RF Antenna Engineer, Top Secret Clearance — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Staff Instrumentation and Controls Engineer — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Strategic Sourcing Manager, Data Center Infrastructure, Electrical — OpenAI
- Senior FPGA Engineer (TS/SCI) — K2 Space
- Senior FPGA Prototyping Engineer — K2 Space
Science
- Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Medicinal Drug Design), Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
- Research Scientist, Life Sciences (Chemistry) — Anthropic
Product
Design
- Staff Product Designer, MarianaOS — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Product Designer — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Founding Brand Designer — Serval AI-powered enterprise service management platform that automates employee requests, onboarding, and IT operati
Go-to-market
- Head of Community, Enterprise Marketing — Anthropic
- Regional Director, Enterprise Sales — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- Regional Director, Enterprise Sales — LangChain
- Regional Director, Enterprise Sales (DMV) — LangChain
- Regional VP, Sales — Sierra
- Federal Account Director, National Security — OpenAI
- Partner Director, McKinsey Alliance — OpenAI
- Director, Yield Management — xAI
Operations
- M&A Tax Director — Anthropic
- Head of Financial Crime — xAI
- Head of Talent — Prime Intellect Platform for training, deploying, and evaluating custom AI models on distributed compute resources
- Executive Business Partner (Office of the CEO) — World Labs Builds 3D world generation models that create spatially consistent environments from text, images, and video
- Director of Technical Accounting — Together AI Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
- Director of Licensing — Valar Atomics
- Managing Principal, Red Team Operator — Armadin armadin is an ai-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker
- APAC Tax Lead — Anthropic
- Compute Country Lead, Canada — Anthropic
- Finance & Strategy Manager, Machines — Anthropic
- Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering — Anthropic
- Manager, Infrastructure Capex Accounting — Anthropic
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