Weekly digest
Week of 19 January 2026
38 new roles this week across 16 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+11), OpenAI (+10), Ricursive Intelligence (+3).
Research
- LLM Modeling and Scaling Researcher — Ricursive Intelligence Designs AI chips using machine learning to optimize semiconductor development and inference performance
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied — Liquid AI Builds efficient foundation models that run on-device across phones, cars, and edge hardware without sending d
- Software Engineer - Training Product — Baseten Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
Applied AI
- Applied AI Architect — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Android Engineer, Applied Foundations — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Applied AI Architect — OpenAI
- Applied AI Architect, Large Enterprise — OpenAI
- iOS Engineer, Applied Foundations — OpenAI
- AI Strategist — Distyl AI Builds customized generative AI systems and operating platforms for enterprise transformation
Infrastructure
- Staff+ Software Engineer, Safeguards Infrastructure — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff, Cloud & Infrastructure Security — Fireworks AI Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
- Member of Technical Staff - Platform Engineering — Modal Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
- Senior Network Engineer (Amsterdam) — Together AI Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
- Senior Software Engineer - AI Compute, Together Cloud — Together AI
- Threat Intelligence Engineer — Anthropic
- LLM Infra Engineer — Ricursive Intelligence
- Software Engineer, Platform Systems — OpenAI
- Software Engineer, Platform Systems — OpenAI
- Infrastructure Software Engineer — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
Software
- Member of Technical Staff — OpenEvidence AI-driven clinical decision support platform aggregating medical journal findings for healthcare providers
- Backend Engineer, Consumer Devices — OpenAI
- Software Engineer, Research - Human Data — OpenAI
- Software Engineer, Character Platform & Tools — Sesame AI Sesame Technology is a multifaceted technology company with diverse offerings
Hardware
- Outside Machinist/ Pipe Fitter — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- Signal Integrity Engineer — OpenAI
Science
Go-to-market
- Account Director, Large Enterprise — OpenAI
- AI Outcomes Manager — Anthropic
- Growth Account Executive, Startups — Anthropic
- Mid-Market Account Executive, Tech — Anthropic
- Strategic Account Executive, Healthcare — Anthropic
- Strategic Account Executive, Life Sciences — Anthropic
- Business Development Representative — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
Operations
- Director, Revenue Accounting — Anthropic
- Finance & Strategy, GTM - Korea — Anthropic
- People Partner — LangChain Framework and platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring LLM-powered agents
General
- General Application — Ricursive Intelligence
- General Application — Applied Compute Platform for training, deploying, and improving custom AI agents on enterprise data
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