Weekly digest
Week of 31 August 2026
60 of 265 listed below
265 new roles this week across 38 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+58), Anthropic (+39), xAI (+19).
Research
- Research Manager, Biological Safety — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Research Engineer, Forge — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- Research Engineer, Full Stack — Mistral AI
- Researcher, Agent Safety, Oversight and System Mitigations — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Systems — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Research Engineer, ML Platform — Mistral AI
- Data Scientist - AI Safety — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
Applied AI
- Manager, Technical Deployment (Financial Services) — Anthropic
- Lead Applied AI Engineer — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
- Manager, Applied AI Architects — OpenAI
- Manager, Applied AI Architects — OpenAI
- Manager, Applied AI Architects - Digital Natives — OpenAI
Infrastructure
- Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra — Anthropic
- Staff Instrumentation and Controls Engineer — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Staff Process Controls Engineer - Networking and Systems Administration — Mariana Minerals
- Member of Technical Staff (General Software Engineer, Infrastructure) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Engineering Manager, Inference Infrastructure — Anthropic
Data
- Member of Technical Staff (Search Quality Analyst) — Perplexity
- Marketing Analytics Manager — Baseten Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
- Data Scientist (Analytics) — Baseten
Software
- Staff Software Engineer, Observability & Profiling — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Claude Science — Anthropic
- Engineering Manager, Scheduler and Fleet Efficiency — Anthropic
- Engineering Team Lead, Backend — Mistral AI
- Engineering Manager — Numeric AI platform automating financial close, reconciliations, and cash management for accounting teams
Hardware
- Hardware Systems Planning Lead (1P) — OpenAI
- Fabrication/Welding Lead — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Senior Supplier Development Engineer, Avionics — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Senior Machinist — Valar Atomics
- Senior Welder — Valar Atomics
- ASV Operator — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Diesel Mechanic — Saronic
Science
- Research Leader (DMPK), Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
- Computational Scientist, Differentiable Physics — Periodic Labs Builds AI scientists and autonomous laboratories to accelerate discovery in physical sciences
- Research Scientist/Research Engineer, Materials Data — Periodic Labs
Product
Design
- Member of Design Staff - Brand — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Visual Design Lead — Mercor
- Lead Product Designer, Enterprise — Perplexity
Go-to-market
- Head of Partner Account Management & Ecosystem BD — Anthropic
- Area Vice President, Consumer Business Services — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Enterprise Sales Director - Majors, Public Sector — Sierra
- Account Director, Digital Native Enterprise — OpenAI
- Account Director, Higher Education — OpenAI
- AWS GTM Partnership Lead, Public Sector & Nonprofits — Anthropic
- Research & Education Sales Lead, Beneficial Deployments — Anthropic
Operations
- Director, Technical Revenue Accounting — Anthropic
- Director, US International Tax Planning — Anthropic
- Head of Compute Supply Chain — Anthropic
- Head of Technical Training — Anthropic
- Treasury Director, Investments & Liquidity — Anthropic
- Executive Assistant to the Head of Marketing — Baseten
- Head of Tax — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Head of Origination — American Terawatt Builds a national HVDC transmission network for large industrial electricity loads
- Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Copper — Mariana Minerals
- Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium — Mariana Minerals
- Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference) — Perplexity
General
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