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Week of 28 September 2026

285 new roles this week across 46 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+52), Anthropic (+46), xAI (+21).

Research

  1. Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $500K–850K · last week Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
  2. Research Engineer / Research Scientist, RL Frontiers — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $500K–850K · last week
  3. AI Scientist - Domain Expert Crashworthiness — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · last week Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications

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ML engineering

  1. Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–485K · last week
  2. Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference Launch Engineering — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–485K · last week
  3. Member of Technical Staff - Evaluation Infrastructure — xAI · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $180K–440K · last week Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified

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Applied AI

  1. Manager, Technical Deployment — Anthropic · London · GBP 190,000–230,000/year · last week
  2. Manager, Field Engineering — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $270K–310K · last week Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
  3. Applied AI Delivery Lead — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $234K–335K · last week Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
  4. Manager, Applied AI Architect — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $280K–300K · last week
  5. Manager, Applied AI Architect (India) — OpenAI · Bangalore · last week

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Infrastructure

  1. Staff / Senior Physical Security Systems Engineer — Anthropic · Travel Required · Remote · $320K–405K · last week
  2. Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Site Reliability & Infrastructure — General Intuition · New York City, NY · $180K–275K · last week Trains AI agents through game-based environments to develop perception, anticipation, and real-world problem-s
  3. Member of Technical Staff, Distributed Systems Engineer — Mirendil · Seed · SF Bay Area · last week Builds self-accelerating AI systems that automate AI research to advance science and engineering
  4. Network Deployment and Maintenance Lead - Data Center Operations — Anthropic · Remote · $320K–405K · last week

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Data

  1. Analytics Engineer — LangChain · Series B · Remote · last week Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
  2. Data Engineer, Hardware & Consumer Devices — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $295K–445K · last week
  3. Data Scientist, B2B Strategy & Intelligence — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $347K–510K · last week

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Software

  1. Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Scaling — Anthropic · New York · $320K–485K · last week
  2. Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Security Fusion Platform — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–405K · last week
  3. Staff+ Software Engineer, Account Abuse (Machine Learning) — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–485K · last week
  4. Member of Technical Staff (New Grad) — Perplexity · Series C · SF Bay Area · last week AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
  5. Member of Technical Staff — General Intuition · New York City, NY · $250K–600K · last week
  6. Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Backend — General Intuition · New York City, NY · $180K–275K · last week

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Hardware

  1. Sr/Staff Civil Engineer — Mariana Minerals · Series B · SF Bay Area · $150K–200K · last week Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
  2. Staff Mobile Equipment and Fleet Engineer — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Houston, TX · last week
  3. Principal Instrumentation & Controls Engineer – Hardware — Valar Atomics · Orangeville, UT · last week Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
  4. Lead Technician (Power Generation) - Memphis — xAI · Late Stage · Southaven, MS · last week
  5. Lead Robotics Technician — Genesis AI · Seed · SF Bay Area · last week Develops general-purpose robots powered by foundation models for physical tasks across factories, hospitals, a

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Science

  1. Associate Director, Clinical Supply Chain, Cambridge, MA — Isomorphic Laboratories · Series B · Boston · last week Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
  2. Lab Chemist — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Moab, UT · last week
  3. Pathology Specialist, Anatomic Pathology — Neuralink · Series E · Austin · $59K–98K · last week Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug

Product

  1. Lead Product Manager, Inference — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · last week
  2. Product Manager, OpenRouter Connect — OpenRouter · Series A · Remote · $245K–280K · last week Unified API gateway providing access to 500+ AI models across 80+ providers with intelligent routing
  3. Product Manager, Platform — Perplexity · Series C · New York City, NY · $230K–330K · last week

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Design

  1. Product Designer, Claude Developer Platform — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $305K–385K · last week
  2. Brand and Marketing — Chai Discovery · Series C · SF Bay Area · last week AI platform that designs molecules and predicts biochemical interactions for drug discovery
  3. Product Designer, Consumer Verticals — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $245K–310K · last week

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Go-to-market

  1. Head of Customer Success, APAC — Anthropic · Sydney · last week
  2. Area Vice President, Public Sector — Sierra · Late Stage · Remote · $500K–520K · last week Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
  3. Director of Events and Experiences — Perplexity · Series C · SF Bay Area · $185K–240K · last week
  4. VP, Growth — WithCoverage · Series B · New York · $250K–300K · last week Digital platform for managing insurance policies, claims, and risk for CPG brands and growing businesses
  5. Member of Go-to-Market Staff — Liquid AI · Seed · North America l San Francisco, Boston or Remote · Remote · last week Builds efficient foundation models that run on-device across phones, cars, and edge hardware without sending d
  6. Channel Partner Manager, Public Sector — Anthropic · Washington DC · $215K–300K · last week
  7. Customer Marketing Manager, Special Projects — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $255K–320K · last week

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Operations

  1. Head of Payroll & Equity — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $570K–610K · last week
  2. Head of Recruiting, Communications, Brand, & Marketing — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $295K–375K · last week
  3. Head of Field Operations, EMEA — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · last week
  4. Head of Equity Administration — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $230K–260K · last week
  5. Head of Procurement — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $210K–230K · last week
  6. Head of Revenue Accounting — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $260K–280K · last week
  7. Head of Legal / General Counsel — Etched · Seed · SF Bay Area · last week Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
  8. Program Manager, Safeguards Policy, Enforcement, and Threat Intelligence — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $285K–330K · last week
  9. State and Local Affairs Lead, West — Anthropic · Remote · $230K–265K · last week
  10. Technical Program Manager, Life Sciences — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $290K–365K · last week
  11. Product Operations Manager (DesignOps) — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · last week

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General

  1. Member of the Special Projects Staff — Mariana Minerals · Series B · SF Bay Area · $170K–185K · last week
  2. General Application — General Intuition · New York City, NY · $80K–300K · last week
  3. Technical Interns and New Grads — General Intuition · New York City, NY · USD 4,000–15,000/month · last week

Other

  1. Cook (Sushi) — xAI · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · USD 32–35/hour · last week

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