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Week of 5 October 2026

333 new roles this week across 52 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+53), OpenAI (+39), ElevenLabs (+29).

Research

  1. LLM Scientist, AI for Science — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · last week Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
  2. Research Engineer - Eval Platform — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · last week
  3. Post-Training Applied Researcher — Baseten · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $200K–275K · last week Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale

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ML engineering

  1. Member of Technical Staff - Inference Runtime — Modal · Series C · SF Bay Area · $220K–300K · last week Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
  2. Member of Technical Staff - Agent — Armadin · Series A · SF Bay Area · last week armadin is an ai-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker
  3. Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Agents) — Perplexity · Series C · Belgrade · last week AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries

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Applied AI

  1. Software Engineer, Staff: Applied AI, Science & Engineering — Anthropic · New York · $405K–485K · last week Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
  2. Principal/Senior Forward Deployed Engineer — fal · Series D · SF Bay Area · $180K–250K · last week Serverless GPU platform for deploying and fine-tuning generative AI models at scale
  3. Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Startups — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $315K–380K · last week
  4. Manager, Applied AI Architecture, Enterprise Tech — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · last week
  5. Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Megas) — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–405K · last week

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Infrastructure

  1. Senior/Staff Security Engineer, Detection & Response — Anthropic · Zurich · last week
  2. Staff + Software Security Engineer, Labs — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–485K · last week
  3. Staff + Software Security Engineer, Secure Frameworks — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $32K–485K · last week
  4. Member of Technical Staff - Production Engineering — Prime Intellect · Series A · SF Bay Area · last week Platform for training, deploying, and evaluating custom AI models on distributed compute resources
  5. Member of Technical Staff - Distributed Systems — Armadin · Series A · SF Bay Area · last week
  6. Member of Technical Staff, Application Security — Listen Labs · Series B · SF Bay Area · last week AI-powered platform that conducts automated video and audio interviews to generate customer insights at scale

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Data

  1. Member of Data Staff (Analytics Engineer) — Perplexity · Series C · SF Bay Area · $175K–330K · last week
  2. Data Engineer, Product — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–405K · last week
  3. Field Technician, Data Collection — Mind Robotics · Normal, IL · last week Develops industrial robots with generalized physical intelligence for factory automation

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Software

  1. Staff+ Fullstack Software Engineer, Safeguards Engineering — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $405K–485K · last week
  2. Member of Technical Staff, Growth — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $200K–290K · last week Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
  3. Member of Technical Staff - SDK (Stockholm) — Modal · Series C · Stockholm, SE · $150K–350K · last week
  4. Member of Technical Staff - Frontend — Armadin · Series A · SF Bay Area · last week
  5. Member of Technical Staff (Search Crawler Analyst) — Perplexity · Series C · Belgrade · last week

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Hardware

  1. Staff Mining Engineer — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Moab, UT · $123K–171K · last week Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
  2. Member of Technical Staff, System Integration — xDOF · Series B · SF Bay Area · last week XDOF is the infrastructure partner for the world's most ambitious robotics builders
  3. Construction Manager, Power Generation - Memphis — xAI · Late Stage · Southaven, MS · last week Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
  4. SMT Line Lead — Etched · Seed · SF Bay Area · last week Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
  5. Senior Data Center Hardware Engineer — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · last week
  6. Senior Electrical Engineer - Special Programs — Saronic · Series D · Austin · last week Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications

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Science

  1. Lab Manager — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Houston, TX · last week
  2. Laboratory Technician — Mariana Minerals · Series B · SF Bay Area · USD 40–45/hour · last week
  3. Histopathology Intern — Neuralink · Series E · Austin · last week Develops implantable brain-computer interfaces enabling paralyzed individuals to control devices through thoug

Product

  1. Product Manager, Billing — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $385K–460K · last week
  2. Product Manager, Claude — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $385K–460K · last week
  3. Product Manager, Enterprise Privacy — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $305K–385K · last week

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Design

  1. Environment Design & Build Lead — xDOF · Series B · Jakarta · last week
  2. Product Designer, Growth — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $305K–460K · last week

Go-to-market

  1. Head of Digital Natives & Startups, ANZ — Anthropic · Sydney · last week
  2. Head of Programmatic Customer Success — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $365K–435K · last week
  3. Regional VP, Sales (South East Asia) — Sierra · Late Stage · Singapore · last week Conversational AI platform that deploys customized agents across chat, voice, email, and SMS for customer supp
  4. Account Director, Cyber — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $200K · last week Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
  5. Account Director, Digital Natives — OpenAI · Singapore · last week
  6. Account Director, Large Enterprise — OpenAI · Sydney · last week
  7. Account Director, Large Enterprise - Tokyo — OpenAI · Tokyo · last week

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Operations

  1. Director, Financial Reporting - Special Projects — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $230K–300K · last week
  2. Director, SOX Infrastructure — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $230K–300K · last week
  3. Director, Technical Accounting – Investments — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $230K–300K · last week
  4. Head of Process & Controls - Finance and Operations — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $260K–270K · last week
  5. Chief of Staff, Product — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $180K–230K · last week Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
  6. Head of Safety — General Intuition · New York City, NY · $180K–300K · last week Trains AI agents through game-based environments to develop perception, anticipation, and real-world problem-s
  7. Executive Assistant to the CEO — Elorian AI · Seed · SF Bay Area · last week Builds multimodal AI models that reason natively through visual understanding rather than text translation
  8. Commercial Operations Program Manager — Anthropic · New York · $235K–300K · last week
  9. Communications Manager, Safeguards — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $265K–295K · last week
  10. Manager, Product Program Management — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $365K · last week

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General

  1. MatX Internships 2027 — MatX · Series B · SF Bay Area · last week Designs high-throughput chips optimized for training and inference of large language models

Other

  1. Blast Hole Driller — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Moab, UT · last week
  2. Core Driller — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Moab, UT · last week
  3. Core Driller Assistant — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Moab, UT · last week

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