Weekly digest
Week of 21 September 2026
60 of 330 listed below
330 new roles this week across 48 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+72), Anthropic (+43), xAI (+29).
Research
- Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Research Engineer) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
- Research Operations, Reinforcement Learning — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Applied Science - Research Engineer (Robotics) — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- Research Engineer - Cybersecurity (RL Environments) — Mistral AI
ML engineering
- Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Chemistry & Process Engineering — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Industrial Autonomy & Applied ML — Mariana Minerals
- Sr. Data Scientist — Mariana Minerals
Applied AI
- Field CTO, APAC — Mistral AI
- Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Backend — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Member of Technical Staff, Tech Lead Applied AI Backend — Mercor
- Manager, Applied AI Architect — Anthropic
- Deployment Lead, Financial Services- NYC — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
Infrastructure
- Head of Business Technology Engineering — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Machines — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Member of Technical Staff - Lead, Storage — Modal
- Member of Technical Staff - Machines — Modal
- Member of Technical Staff - Storage — Modal
Data
- Senior data collection operator (FR) — Genesis AI Develops general-purpose robots powered by foundation models for physical tasks across factories, hospitals, a
- Analytics Engineer — Modal
- Software Engineer, Data Platform — Mind Robotics Develops industrial robots with generalized physical intelligence for factory automation
Software
- Staff Software Engineer: Compute — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Access Programs — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Creation — Anthropic
- Full Stack Staff & Software Engineer, Consumer Monetization — OpenAI
- Mobile / Full Stack Staff & Software Engineer, Consumer Monetization — OpenAI
Hardware
- Principal Electro-Mechanical Manufacturing Engineer — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Lead Engineer (Power Generation) - Memphis — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Manager, Engineering (Power Generation & Utilities) - Memphis — xAI
- Graphite Production Lead — Valar Atomics Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
- Fabrication Shop Manager — Sesame AI Sesame Technology is a multifaceted technology company with diverse offerings
- CPU Micro-Architect / RTL (Lead & IC Engineers) — Nuvacore Designs high-performance CPU cores optimized for AI, data centers, and agentic computing
Science
Product
- Product Manager, Safeguards (Generalist) — Anthropic
- Product Manager - Growth — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Product Engineering Business Lead — OpenAI
Design
Go-to-market
- Head of APAC GTM Enablement — Anthropic
- Account Director, Digital Natives | MENA — OpenAI
- Account Director, Large Enterprise — OpenAI
- Global Account Director, International Organisations, ME & LATAM — OpenAI
- Global Head of Events — OpenAI
- Marketing Analytics Lead, Enterprise Marketing — Anthropic
- Partner Manager, Microsoft Co-sell — Anthropic
- Partner Success Lead — Anthropic
Operations
- Head of FDE Learning Programs — Mistral AI
- Head of Employee Tech & Experience (ETX) — OpenAI
- Head of Sourcing Enablement & Delivery — OpenAI
- Principal Program Scheduler — K2 Space
- Member of Technical Staff, IT — Genesis AI
- Incident Response Manager - Privacy — Anthropic
- Program Manager, Safeguards Workforce Operations — Anthropic
- Senior Compliance Program Manager, Political Law — Anthropic
- Senior Manager, IT SOX — Anthropic
General
Other
- Head of Associate AE — Serval AI-powered enterprise service management platform that automates employee requests, onboarding, and IT operati
- Principal Turbomachinery Engineer — K2 Space
- Sales Engineering Manager, APJ — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Marketing Lead – Enterprise Warehouse Robotics — Skild AI Builds foundation models for general-purpose robots that adapt across hardware and tasks
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