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Week of 12 October 2026

323 new roles this week across 44 companies; the biggest movers: OpenAI (+50), Anthropic (+41), ElevenLabs (+32).

Research

  1. Senior Red Team Operator, AI/LLM — Armadin · Series A · Remote · 2 days ago armadin is an ai-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker
  2. Research Engineer, GPU Performance — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 4 days ago Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
  3. Research Engineer, Sandboxes — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 2 days ago
  4. Research Engineer (Materials Foundation Models) — CuspAI · Series B · London · 6 days ago Uses AI and molecular simulation to accelerate materials discovery for pharma, biotech, and clean energy

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ML engineering

  1. Member of Technical Staff - Pre-Training Evals Infra — Reflection AI · Series B · New York · 5 days ago Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
  2. Member of Technical Staff, LLM & Production — Hark AI · SF Bay Area · $180K–450K · 6 days ago Builds multimodal AI agents with speech, vision, and text that learn your preferences and proactively complete
  3. Research Engineer - Search and Services — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 2 days ago

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Applied AI

  1. Staff Forward Deployed Engineer — Anthropic · New York · $280K–320K · 4 days ago Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
  2. Manager, Applied AI Architect — Anthropic · Tokyo · 5 days ago
  3. Manager, Applied AI Architects - Digital Natives, EMEA — Anthropic · London · GBP 190,000–230,000/year · 2 days ago
  4. Enablement Lead, Knowledge Work — OpenAI · Sydney · 4 days ago Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use

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Infrastructure

  1. Member of Technical Staff - Storage (Stockholm) — Modal · Series C · Stockholm, SE · $250K–300K · 4 days ago Modal is a cloud-based serverless computing platform designed for data science and machine learning teams
  2. Member of Technical Staff - Datacenter Networking — Prime Intellect · Series A · SF Bay Area · 4 days ago Platform for training, deploying, and evaluating custom AI models on distributed compute resources
  3. Member of Technical Staff - Storage Infrastructure — Prime Intellect · Series A · SF Bay Area · 4 days ago
  4. Senior/Staff Software Engineer – Site Reliability & Infrastructure — General Intuition · New York City, NY · $180K–275K · 2 days ago Trains AI agents through game-based environments to develop perception, anticipation, and real-world problem-s
  5. Staff Software Engineer - AI Compute, Together Cloud — Together AI · Seed · Amsterdam · 2 days ago Together AI is a cloud-based platform specializing in artificial intelligence infrastructure and tools
  6. Engineering Manager Runtime - Storage — Baseten · Late Stage · SF Bay Area · $165K–330K · 3 days ago Platform for deploying and serving machine learning models with high-performance inference at scale

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Data

  1. Data Engineer, Billing & Payments — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $320K–405K · 6 days ago
  2. Finance Data Annotation Quality Analyst — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 3 days ago
  3. Labeling Planner — Saronic · Series D · Brownsville, TX · 5 days ago Saronic Technologies develops advanced autonomous surface vessels for naval and maritime applications

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Software

  1. Staff+ Software Engineer, Enterprise (Full Stack) — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $405K–485K · 2 days ago
  2. Staff+ Software Engineer, Platform Acceleration — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $405K–485K · 4 days ago
  3. Senior / Staff Robotics Security Software Engineer — Saronic · Series D · Austin · 4 days ago
  4. Member of Technical Staff - Platform — Armadin · Series A · SF Bay Area · 2 days ago
  5. Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Trust & Governance) — Perplexity · Series C · SF Bay Area · $220K–405K · 2 days ago AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries

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Hardware

  1. Sr./Staff Process Engineer - Detailed Engineering and Plant Design — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Houston, TX · 4 days ago Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
  2. Staff Mechanical Engineer — Valar Atomics · Torrance, CA · $173K–211K · 2 days ago Builds high-temperature gas reactors for industrial power, hydrogen, and clean fuel production at scale
  3. Manufacturing Engineering Manager — Saronic · Series D · Brownsville, TX · 5 days ago
  4. Lead Electrical Engineer — Valar Atomics · Torrance, CA · $196K–240K · 2 days ago
  5. CPU Custom Circuit Lead — Nuvacore · Austin · $200K–300K · 3 days ago Designs high-performance CPU cores optimized for AI, data centers, and agentic computing
  6. Sr. Field Service Quality Engineer — Saronic · Series D · Austin · 4 days ago
  7. Senior Safety Engineer — Mariana Minerals · Series B · Houston, TX · 5 days ago

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Science

  1. Head of External Drug Discovery Operations, London — Isomorphic Laboratories · Series B · London · 5 days ago Builds AI models to accelerate drug discovery and design novel medicines
  2. Research Assistant — Latent Labs · Series A · SF Bay Area · 3 days ago Latent Labs is an AI foundation model company specializing in programmable biology

Product

  1. VP Product, Cloud & Inference — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 6 days ago
  2. Pricing and Monetization Manager — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $190K–250K · 4 days ago Marketplace connecting domain experts with AI companies for task evaluation and model benchmarking
  3. Product Manager — Traversal · New York · 4 days ago AI-powered platform that automates root cause detection and remediation for production incidents in enterprise

Design

  1. Creative Delivery Director, Business Marketing — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $266K–295K · 4 days ago
  2. Creative Director, Art — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $287K–318K · 4 days ago
  3. Head of Brand — Crosby · Series B · New York City, NY · 3 days ago AI-powered contract review for MSAs, DPAs, and NDAs with lawyer oversight and fixed pricing
  4. Member of Design Staff — Mercor · Series B · SF Bay Area · $175K–350K · 4 days ago

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Go-to-market

  1. Head of GTM Strategy and Planning — Fireworks AI · Series D · SF Bay Area · $250K–300K · 6 days ago Inference engine for deploying and fine-tuning open-source AI models with low-latency, high-throughput serving
  2. Account Director, Enterprise | ANZ — OpenAI · Sydney · 4 days ago
  3. Account Director, Large Enterprise — OpenAI · Singapore · 4 days ago
  4. Director of Events Management — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $272K–302K · 2 days ago
  5. Global Head of Education GTM — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $385K–405K · 5 days ago
  6. Brand Insights, Measurement Lead — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $255K–320K · 3 days ago
  7. Community Engagement Manager, Data Centers (Louisiana) — Anthropic · Remote · $265K–295K · 3 days ago

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Operations

  1. Director, Infrastructure Lease Accounting — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $230K–300K · 3 days ago
  2. Head of Solutions Operations — Mistral AI · Series D · Paris · 2 days ago
  3. Head of Enterprise Risk Management — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $216K–295K · 4 days ago
  4. Head of First Party Chip Finance — OpenAI · SF Bay Area · $293K–342K · 2 days ago
  5. Chief of Staff — ElevenLabs · Series C · United States · 2 days ago AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
  6. Director of Investor Relations — Together AI · Seed · SF Bay Area · $265K–310K · 3 days ago
  7. Member of Editorial Staff, Economics & Policy — Anthropic · Travel Required · Remote · $265K–295K · 4 days ago
  8. Customer Program Manager, Executive Briefings — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $255K–320K · 2 days ago
  9. Internal Communications Manager: GTM — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $295K–345K · 5 days ago
  10. Policy Design Manager, Integrity and Authenticity — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $245K–285K · yesterday
  11. Tabletop Exercise Lead, The Anthropic Institute — Anthropic · SF Bay Area · $295K · yesterday

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Other

  1. Manager, Account Executive — Anthropic · Tokyo · today

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