AI Hiring Brief · 2026-08-06

32 frontier AI labs · 114 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

• Anthropic's hardware cluster: Three of Anthropic's eight new roles sit squarely in infrastructure — "Silicon Engineer," "Hardware Systems Architect," and "Software Engineer, ML Networking," all under AI Research & Engineering — a concentrated push into chip and network design on a single day.
• OpenAI's physical buildout: Two of OpenAI's eight new postings, "Mechanical Commissioning Project Engineer" and "Electrical Commissioning Lead," both sit in the Scaling department — commissioning roles that point directly at data-center construction rather than research.
• SenseNova's all-agent batch: Both of SenseTime SenseNova's new roles today are agent-specific — "Agent 开发工程师" (Agent Development Engineer) and "Agent 应用算法研究员" (Agent Application Algorithm Researcher) — a small posting count but a 100% agent-themed batch.
• Microsoft AI dwarfs the field: 51 additions and 56 closures in a single day, and 258 added over seven days — more than half of all global additions this week came from one company.
• ByteDance's pullback continues: Doubao/Seed added just 1 role against 6 closures today, extending the wide addition-to-closure gap flagged in the previous report.

Company moves

OpenAI: 8 new roles (54 over 7 days) split between data-center buildout — commissioning engineers in Scaling — and enterprise go-to-market, including a "Manager, AI Deployment Engineering - Large Enterprise" in London, against 9 closures.

Anthropic: 8 new roles (17 over 7 days) clustered around silicon and ML networking infrastructure, plus a "Researcher, Cybersecurity Products" and a "Product Design, Manager" role, against 7 closures.

Google DeepMind (谷歌 DeepMind): 5 new roles (26 over 7 days) spanning a "Senior Staff Research Scientist, Agentic Image Generation," a "Senior Staff Software Engineer, Gemini Mobile App," and a "Senior Staff Research Scientist, Recommendation Systems" — product, agentic and recommendation work advancing in parallel, against 3 closures.

Microsoft AI (微软 AI): 51 new roles today (258 over 7 days), mostly routine Software Engineering across Redmond, Hyderabad and Bangalore, but also a "Director, Silicon Physical Design CAD" and two security-research leadership roles ("Principal Security Research Manager," "Principal Security Researcher"), against 56 closures — both the volume and the closure count are the largest of any company tracked today.

Meta AI: just 1 new role, "Security Engineer, Applied AI," against 2 closures — a quiet day after 13 additions over the past week.

NVIDIA (英伟达): 8 new roles (46 over 7 days) mixing CUDA deep-learning systems engineering with a Denmark-based "Interconnect Engineer" and a Shanghai "Senior Web Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure" — infrastructure hiring spread across three continents, against 6 closures.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML): 2 new roles, including "ML Engineer - Robotics" in Cupertino — continuing the robotics-adjacent hiring flagged in the prior report — against 5 closures.

SpaceXAI: 3 new roles, a "Human Data Engineer" in Palo Alto and a Singapore-based "Analyst, Law Enforcement Response Team," against 1 closure.

Perplexity: 1 new role, "Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, GPU Cluster Infrastructure)" — a steady 6 additions over 7 days with zero closures.

Cursor: 2 new roles, "Director, Channel & Partners" in Tokyo and "Field Engineer, Life Sciences," against 2 closures.

Lovable: 1 new role, "Brand & Integrated Marketing Lead, Europe" in Stockholm, against 3 closures.

Cohere: no additions today but 3 closures, against 6 additions over the past week.

Together AI: 3 new roles, all in Customer Success, including a Mandarin-speaking "Forward Deployed Engineer (Inference & Post-Training)" in Singapore — a clear Asia-Pacific customer-facing push.

Scale AI: 3 new "Senior AI Product Manager" roles across Cybersecurity, Code, and Leaderboard within Gen AI Product (16 over 7 days).

Cerebras: no additions today, 1 closure, against 3 additions over the past week.

Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi): 3 new roles including "小语种国家-用户增长负责人" (Growth Lead, Non-Major-Language Countries) and "Discord 社区运营负责人" (Discord Community Lead) — international growth and community operations, against 1 closure.

StepFun (阶跃星辰): no additions today but 5 closures — the sharpest same-day closure count among the China-based labs — against 4 additions over the past week.

ModelBest (面壁智能): 4 new roles including "端侧全模态大模型工程专家" (On-Device Omni-Modal LLM Engineering Expert) across Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, continuing its edge/on-device model push (14 over 7 days).

Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫): 1 new role, an overseas developer-community internship for the LongCat model, against 2 closures.

Baidu AI (百度 AI): 3 new roles including "百度公有云具身大模型研发工程师" (Baidu Public Cloud Embodied Large-Model R&D Engineer) — an embodied-AI signal — against 5 closures.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed): 1 new role, an AI evaluation specialist, against 6 closures — the widest addition-to-closure gap of the day.

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元): no additions today, 3 over the past 7 days, no closures.

MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺): 1 new role, "增长数据分析师" (Growth Data Analyst), in Shanghai.

01.AI (Yi) (零一万物): 3 new roles spanning commercialization/market operations, large-model and agent industry sales, and an overseas ToB strategy assistant, against 1 closure.

Mistral AI, Cerebras (beyond its single closure), Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, DeepSeek (深度求索), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) saw no hiring activity today.

What it signals

Across the 32 companies tracked, global labs added 484 roles over the past 7 days against 58 for the nine China-based labs in the dataset — but that gap is almost entirely a Microsoft AI effect: its 258 seven-day additions alone exceed the entire China cohort more than fourfold. Strip Microsoft out and the global figure drops to 226, a gap that still favors global labs but by a far less dramatic margin. Microsoft's scale also cuts the other way — its 56 same-day closures are the largest of any company, suggesting a high-turnover pipeline (roles opening and closing quickly) rather than pure net growth.

The infrastructure theme is broad-based rather than concentrated in one company. Anthropic's silicon and ML-networking roles, OpenAI's commissioning engineers, NVIDIA's CUDA and interconnect postings, and Microsoft's own silicon-design director role all landed on the same day — four different labs independently signaling continued investment in the physical and low-level compute layer, not just model research.

On the China side, the pattern looks more segmented by company than by theme: ModelBest is consistently building out on-device/edge multimodal capability, SenseNova's batch today was fully agent-focused, Baidu posted an embodied-model engineering role, and both Moonshot AI and 01.AI show growth/overseas-expansion hiring (non-major-language growth leads, Discord community operations, overseas ToB strategy). ByteDance and StepFun, by contrast, both show closures outpacing or matching additions today — StepFun with 5 closures and zero additions, ByteDance with 6 closures against 1 addition — a pullback pattern that stands out against the otherwise steady-to-expanding posture of their peers.

Seven companies — Mistral AI, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen — recorded zero hiring activity for the full 7-day window, not just today, suggesting either a stable headcount plan or postings managed outside the channels this report tracks.