Weekly digest
Week of 19 October 2026
54 new roles this week across 14 companies; the biggest movers: Anthropic (+14), Prime Intellect (+12), OpenAI (+10).
Research
- Applied Research Lead - New York — Prime Intellect Platform for training, deploying, and evaluating custom AI models on distributed compute resources
- Applied Science - Research Engineer (Robotics) — Mistral AI Builds open-source AI models and platforms for deploying custom generative AI agents and applications
- Applied Research - Agentic RL — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Chip Design — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Computer Use — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Continual Learning — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Ecosystem & Product — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Forward-Deployed RL — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Quantitative Finance — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Robotics — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Scientific AI — Prime Intellect
- Applied Research - Sovereign AI — Prime Intellect
- Research Engineer - RL Infrastructure — Prime Intellect
ML engineering
- Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise Agent Evals & Efficiency) — Perplexity AI-powered answer engine that provides conversational, source-backed responses to user queries
Applied AI
- Manager of Applied AI Architecture, Industries — Anthropic Develops Claude, an AI assistant, with research focused on AI safety and alignment
- Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Platform — OpenAI Develops AI systems including large language models like ChatGPT for research and commercial use
- Applied AI Demo Engineer — Anthropic
- Evaluation Engineer, Applied AI — Mistral AI
- Applied AI Engineer, Startups (Mandarin-speaking) — OpenAI
Infrastructure
- Principal Engineer Capacity/Compute — Anthropic
- Principal Engineer Capacity/Compute — Anthropic
- Member of Technical Staff - Clusters — Sail Research Cost-efficient inference API for long-horizon AI agents with completion windows that reduce token costs by up
- Senior Network Integration Engineer, Top Secret Clearance — K2 Space Builds high-power satellite buses designed for LEO, MEO, and GEO missions with 10x more power than constellati
- Product Reliability Engineer — OpenAI
Software
Hardware
- Thermal Lab Lead — Etched Etched.ai is a technology startup developing specialized hardware for large language model (LLM) inference
- Mechanical Engineer, PCBA Test Infrastructure, Robotics — OpenAI
- Combo Welder - Memphis — xAI Develops Grok, an AI platform offering reasoning, code, voice, image, and video capabilities through a unified
- Project Engineer — Mariana Minerals Software-first developer and operator of critical mineral projects for energy, AI, and defense
- Project Maintenance Technician — Mariana Minerals
- Chip Simulation Software Engineer — Etched
- Mechanical Engineer — Etched
Product
Go-to-market
- Head of GTM Programs EMEA — Anthropic
- Customer Success Manager — Anthropic
- Sales Manager, Enterprise Industries — Anthropic
- Sales Lead - Corporate - West — ElevenLabs AI platform generating realistic speech, music, and sound effects across 70+ languages
- Strategic Partnerships, GSI, APAC — Mistral AI
- AI Native Account Executive, Compute — fal Serverless GPU platform for deploying and fine-tuning generative AI models at scale
Operations
- Policy Program Manager, Safeguards Regulatory — Anthropic
- Program Manager, Accounting Operations & Strategy — Anthropic
- Strategic Finance Manager — Reflection AI Builds open AI models that enable anyone to control and shape intelligent systems
- Compensation Programs & Operations Lead — OpenAI
- Engineering Manager, Preparedness — OpenAI
- Events Manager, Brand & Communications — OpenAI
- Global Candidate Experience Manager — OpenAI
- Program Manager, National Security Policy Operations — OpenAI
- 3P Revenue Accounting & Reporting — Anthropic
- Audit, Security GRC — Anthropic
- International mobility expert — Mistral AI
- Supervisor, Child Safety Operations — xAI
Other
- Tinkerer — Thinking Machines Lab Builds customizable, multimodal AI systems emphasizing human-AI collaboration and model interpretability
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