Weekly digest
Week of 5 October 2026
60 of 345 listed below
345 new roles this week across 52 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+54), OpenAI (+41), ElevenLabs (+28).
Research
- LLM Scientist, AI for Science — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- Research Engineer - Eval Platform — Mistral AI
- Post-Training Applied Researcher — Baseten Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff - Inference Runtime — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Member of Technical Staff - Agent — Armadin armadin is an ai-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker
- Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Agents) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
Applied AI
- Software Engineer, Staff: Applied AI, Science & Engineering — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Senior/Staff Software Engineer, Forward Deployed — fal Serverless GPU platform for deploying and fine-tuning generative AI models at scale
- Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Startups — Anthropic
- Manager, Applied AI Architecture, Enterprise Tech — Anthropic
Infrastructure
- Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response — Anthropic
- Staff + Software Security Engineer, Labs — Anthropic
- Staff + Software Security Engineer, Secure Frameworks — Anthropic
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Research Systems Engineering — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff - Production Engineering — Prime Intellect Platform for training, deploying, and evaluating custom AI models on distributed compute resources
- Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems — Armadin
Data
- Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer) — Perplexity
- Team Lead, Human Data Operations - Vision, Image & Video — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Data Engineer, Product — Anthropic
- Product Data Scientist — Baseten
Software
- VP of Engineering — Ornn Ornn is a financial technology platform specializing in AI compute risk management infrastructure
- Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer, Safeguards Engineering — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff, Growth — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Member of Technical Staff - SDK (Stockholm) — Modal
- Member of Technical Staff - Frontend — Armadin
Hardware
- Staff Mining Engineer — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Member of Technical Staff, System Integration — xDOF XDOF is the infrastructure partner for the world's most ambitious robotics builders
- Construction Manager, Power Generation - Memphis — xAI
- SMT Line Lead — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
- Senior Data Center Hardware Engineer — Mistral AI
- Senior Electrical Engineer - Special Programs — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
Science
- Lab Manager — Mariana Minerals
- Laboratory Technician — Mariana Minerals
- Histopathology Intern — Neuralink Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug
Product
Design
Go-to-market
- Head of Digital Natives & Startups, ANZ — Anthropic
- Head of Programmatic Customer Success — Anthropic
- Regional VP, Sales (South East Asia) — Sierra Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
- Account Director, Cyber — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Account Director, Digital Natives — OpenAI
- Account Director, Large Enterprise — OpenAI
- Account Director, Large Enterprise - Tokyo — OpenAI
Operations
- Director, Financial Reporting - Special Projects — Anthropic
- Director, SOX Infrastructure — Anthropic
- Director, Technical Accounting – Investments — Anthropic
- Head of Process & Controls - Finance and Operations — Fireworks AI
- Chief of Staff, Product — Mercor Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
- Head of Safety — General Intuition Trains AI agents through game-based environments to develop perception, anticipation, and real-world problem-s
- Executive Assistant to the CEO — Elorian AI Builds multimodal AI models that reason natively through visual understanding rather than text translation
- Commercial Operations Program Manager — Anthropic
- Communications Manager, Safeguards — Anthropic
- Manager, Product Program Management — Anthropic
General
- MatX Internships 2027 — MatX Designs high-throughput chips optimized for training and inference of large language models
Other
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