Weekly digest
Week of 24 August 2026
60 of 243 listed below
243 new roles this week across 42 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+47), OpenAI (+40), LangChain (+13).
Research
- Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Research Leader / Senior Scientist (Computational Drug Design), Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff - Inference Systems — Liquid AI Builds efficient foundation models that run on-device across phones, cars, and edge hardware without sending d
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Model Platform) — Perplexity
- Research Engineer - Inference — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
Applied AI
- Staff AI Deployment Strategist - DACH — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- Staff AI Deployment Strategist - UK & Nordics — Mistral AI
- Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex) — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Digital Natives) — OpenAI
- Applied AI Architect, Industries — Anthropic
- Applied AI Architect, Startups — Anthropic
Infrastructure
- Lead Operator — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Sr. Systems Administrator — Mariana Minerals
- Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Senior Network Security Engineer — Valar Atomics
Data
- Member of Technical Staff, Data Flywheel — Reflection AI Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
- Analytics Engineer, GTM — OpenAI
- Data Operations — Thinking Machines Lab Builds customizable, multimodal AI systems emphasizing human-AI collaboration and model interpretability
Software
- Staff Software Engineer, GTM AI Engineering — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff (EMEA) — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Desktop Apps) — Perplexity
- Tech Lead, Software Infrastructure and Fleet Management — Mind Robotics Develops industrial robots with generalized physical intelligence for factory automation
- Senior Software Engineer — Infra Agent Systems Remote India — Together AI Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
Hardware
- Principal Dynamics Engineer — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Principal Hardware Reliability Engineer — K2 Space
- Principal Mission Payload Engineer — K2 Space
- Principal Certification & Airworthiness Engineer — Mach Industries Develops low-cost autonomous aerospace and defense systems including drones, munitions, and propulsion compone
- Principal Power Systems Control Architect — American Terawatt Builds a national HVDC transmission network for large industrial electricity loads
- Engineering Manager, Hardware Platform Security — Anthropic
- New Product Introduction (NPI) Sourcing Manager, Data Center Power & Cooling — Anthropic
- Mechanical Engineering Lead - AI Rack Scale Systems — MatX Designs high-throughput chips optimized for training and inference of large language models
Science
- Senior Clinical Trial Manager, Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories
- Scientist, Protein Design — Chai Discovery AI platform that designs molecules and predicts biochemical interactions for drug discovery
Product
- Product Manager, Multi-Cloud Trust & Safety — Anthropic
- Product Manager, Agent Development - Financial Services — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Product Manager, Agent Development - Public Sector — Sierra
Design
- Member of Technical Staff, Designer — Mirendil Builds self-accelerating AI systems that automate AI research to advance science and engineering
- Lead Brand Designer — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Motion Designer (Brand Team) — Baseten Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
Go-to-market
Operations
- Director of Payroll, APAC — Anthropic
- Director, Finance Systems - Revenue Systems Engineering — Anthropic
- Head of Policy Design, Societal Harms — Anthropic
- Executive Assistant to CRO & Head of Strategic Sales — Baseten
- Head of Treasury Markets — OpenAI
- Head of Recruiting — Goodfire Goodfire is a San Francisco-based public benefit corporation focused on AI interpretability and safety
- Director of Congressional Affairs — K2 Space
- Director of State and Local Government Affairs — K2 Space
- Director, Litigation — Perplexity
- Director of Accounting — WithCoverage Digital platform for managing insurance policies, claims, and risk for CPG brands and growing businesses
- Transaction Principal, EU — Anthropic
Other
- Member of Technical Staff - Sailboxes — Sail Research Cost-efficient inference API for long-horizon AI agents with completion windows that reduce token costs by up
- Agent Strategist — Sierra
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