Weekly digest
Week of 31 August 2026
60 of 244 listed below
244 new roles this week across 37 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+58), Anthropic (+35), Perplexity (+18).
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
- Summer 2027 Internship - Member of Technical Staff - Agent Systems — Armadin armadin is an ai-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker
Applied AI
Infrastructure
- Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra — Anthropic
- Staff Process Controls Engineer - Networking and Systems Administration — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- 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
- Engineering Manager, Core Services — OpenAI
Data
- Member of Technical Staff (Search Quality Analyst) — Perplexity
- Data Scientist — Baseten Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale
- People Research Data Scientist, AI Fairness & Bias — OpenAI
Software
- 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
- Product Engineering Lead — Sesame AI Sesame Technology is a multifaceted technology company with diverse offerings
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 Welder — Valar Atomics
- Diesel Mechanic — Saronic Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications
- End of Line Technician — Saronic
- Metrology Engineer — 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
- Lead Product Designer, Enterprise — Perplexity
- Lead Product Designer, Growth — Perplexity
Go-to-market
- 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
- Marketing Analytics Manager — Baseten
Operations
- Director, Technical Revenue Accounting — Anthropic
- Director, US International Tax Planning — 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
- Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Copper — Mariana Minerals
- Sr./Staff Technical Program Manager - Lithium — Mariana Minerals
- Member of Technical Staff (TPM, Inference) — Perplexity
- Corporate Development Lead, Life Sciences — Anthropic
- Lead Technical Instructor — Anthropic
General
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