Weekly digest
Week of 17 August 2026
60 of 422 listed below
422 new roles this week across 50 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+88), OpenAI (+72), xAI (+37).
Research
- AI Scientist - Agentic Engineering — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- AI Scientist - Physics Models — Mistral AI
- Fullstack Engineer, RL Environments — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Research Engineer – Benchmarking — Mercor
ML engineering
- Staff + Senior Software Engineer, Inference — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Junior/Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Inference / Compute Infrastructure Engineering — Together AI Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
- Staff Software Engineer, Inference / Compute Infrastructure Engineering — Together AI
- Staff Software Engineer, Inference / Compute Infrastructure Engineering — Together AI
Infrastructure
- Director, Infrastructure Supply Chain Accounting — Anthropic
- Head of Vulnerability Disclosure & Security Community — Anthropic
- Head of IT — Baseten Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Connectivity — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Distribution — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Portability — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff, Mercor Enterprise Platform — Mercor
- Principal Forward Deployable Autonomous Systems Engineer — Mach Industries Develops low-cost autonomous aerospace and defense systems including drones, munitions, and propulsion compone
Data
- RE/RS, Data Understanding - Foundations — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
Software
- Mission Operations Chief Engineer, MUSV — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Auth & Identity — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Managed Agents — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Developer Experience — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Product Sandboxing — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff - Reliability Engineering — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Principal GNC Engineer — Mach Industries
- Staff Controls Software Engineer — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
Hardware
- Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer [Mechanical, Composites, Castings Reliability] — Mach Industries
- Principal Reliability Supplier Industrialization Engineer [Precision Machining & Turbomachinery Reliability] — Mach Industries
- Staff Electrical Engineer — Valar Atomics
- Hardware Finance Manager — OpenAI
Science
- Director of Clinical Pharmacology, Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
- Director of Nonclinical Safety, Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories
- Director, Translational Medicine, Oncology, Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories
Product
Design
- Head of Creative — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Policy Design Manager, Conventional Weapons — Anthropic
- Product Design Lead, Growth - Codex — OpenAI
Go-to-market
- Enterprise Sales Director - Majors, Consumer Business Services — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Enterprise Sales Director - Majors, Consumer Business Services — Sierra
- Enterprise Sales Director - Strategic, Consumer Business Services — Sierra
- Enterprise Sales Director - Strategic, Consumer Business Services — Sierra
- Enterprise Sales Director, Consumer Business Services — Sierra
- Enterprise Sales Director, Consumer Business Services — Sierra
- Head of GTM Enablement - Global Lead — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
- Account Director, Digital Native — OpenAI
- Account Director, Media — OpenAI
Operations
- Tax Director, Provision & Compliance — Anthropic
- Head of Deal Desk — Fireworks AI
- Head of Order to Cash — Fireworks AI
- Enterprise Deployment - Chief of Staff — ElevenLabs
- Tax Director, Business Advisory and Strategic Finance — OpenAI
- Director, Memphis Power Plant Operations — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Director of People Operations — Valar Atomics
Other
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