AI Hiring Brief · 2026-08-07

32 frontier AI labs · 143 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Microsoft's outsized churn: Microsoft AI posted 67 additions and 72 closures in a single day — swamping every other company tracked — with 289 net additions over the past 7 days, including a Silicon Engineering "Design Verification Engineer II" role in Bangalore.
Anthropic keeps building infrastructure programs: three of Anthropic's six new roles are Technical Program Manager posts — Silicon, Hardware Systems, and RL Research — a repeat of the chip/hardware-program emphasis seen in recent days.
OpenAI opens a healthcare front: three new "Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Healthcare" roles landed across New York, San Francisco and a European location, alongside hardware-manufacturing hires (PCBA Manufacturing Engineer, Asset Compliance Program Lead, Hardware).
ByteDance's steepest pullback yet: Doubao/Seed added just 3 roles against 41 closures today — the widest addition-to-closure gap in the dataset, deepening the retrenchment flagged in the prior report.
Lovable's agent-data push: the 70-role startup added 8 roles in one day, four of them Data Scientist openings spanning Product, Pricing, Growth and Agent — unusually concentrated data-science building for its size.

Company moves

OpenAI: 19 new roles today (60 over 7 days) split between healthcare vertical expansion (three Forward Deployed Engineer, Healthcare postings), hardware/manufacturing (PCBA Manufacturing Engineer, Asset Compliance Program Lead), and enterprise go-to-market (Account Director – Digital Native New Business, APAC Export Lead, Ads Solutions), against 18 closures.

Anthropic: 6 new roles (22 over 7 days), three of them Technical Program Manager posts covering Silicon, Hardware Systems, and RL Research, plus a security Incident & Crisis Management Lead and an Insider Risk Investigator, against 5 closures.

Google DeepMind (谷歌 DeepMind): 4 new roles (26 over 7 days) spanning a Bengaluru developer-experience engineer, a London provenance research scientist, and a New York engineering manager for the Gemini mobile app, against 4 closures.

Microsoft AI (微软 AI): 67 new roles today (289 over 7 days) — the largest volume tracked — mixing routine software engineering in Redmond, Bangalore and Hyderabad with AI product management (Content Ranking & Personalization AI, AI Experiences), a Silicon Engineering verification role, and solution-area sales specialists across Brazil, Canada, Norway, Poland and Taiwan, against 72 closures.

Meta AI: a single new role, Head of Developer Relations & Community – AI, against 1 closure.

NVIDIA (英伟达): 7 new roles (50 over 7 days) combining cloud site-reliability engineering and datacenter GPU power architecture in the US with ASIC verification and local-AI system software work in India.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML): 5 new roles (16 over 7 days) including a Machine Learning Compiler Engineer and an Applied Researcher for on-device multimodal reasoning, plus a Siri App Experience program manager.

SpaceXAI: 5 new roles (16 over 7 days) against 9 closures — additions trail closures today; new postings include a Threat Intelligence Analyst on the Safety team and search-infrastructure and X Developer Platform engineers.

Perplexity: one new backend search-infrastructure engineering role spanning London, Serbia, Berlin and New York.

Cursor: 3 new roles, all commercial-sales positions for APJ and Australia.

Lovable: 8 new roles (14 over 7 days), the standout being four separate Data Scientist openings (Product, Pricing, Growth, Agent), plus design and AI-ops hires in Stockholm and London.

Cohere: one new Senior Program Manager, Corporate Affairs role spanning Toronto, London and Washington DC.

Scale AI: 2 new roles against 6 closures — a Senior Product Design Manager and a Public Sector engagement manager in Colorado Springs.

Cerebras: one new Host and Network IO FPGA Engineer role.

Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi): one new 销售运营经理 (Sales Operations Manager) role.

ModelBest (面壁智能): closures lead today (4 versus 1 addition); the new role is a 后端开发工程师-法律业务 (Backend Engineer, Legal Business) in Beijing.

Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫): one closure, no new postings today.

Baidu AI (百度 AI): 7 new roles (21 over 7 days), all sales and cloud-compute positions — AI 算力云销售经理 (AI Compute Cloud Sales Manager), 高级政企销售经理 (Senior Government & Enterprise Sales Manager), AI客户经理 (AI Account Manager) — across Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing and Guiyang.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed): 3 new roles against 41 closures, the sharpest addition-to-closure gap tracked; the openings that did appear are agent- and evaluation-focused — Agent大模型算法专家 (Agent LLM Algorithm Expert) and a scenario-evaluation algorithm engineer for Agent/Coding under 火山方舟 (Volcano Ark).

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元): 2 closures, no new postings.

MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺): one new AI Agent 架构师/策略负责人（量化投资方向） (AI Agent Architect / Strategy Lead, quant investing) role.

Steady with no change today: Mistral AI, Together AI, Scale AI's peers Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, StepFun, 01.AI (Yi), SenseTime SenseNova, and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen.

What it signals

Microsoft AI's 67 additions and 72 closures in one day, on top of 289 net adds over the week, is less a hiring surge than a company running an unusually high-churn recruiting machine — the mix is dominated by conventional software engineering across its major hubs rather than anything AI-specific, though a Silicon Engineering verification role in Bangalore and two security-research leadership posts keep surfacing inside that volume. That scale is the exception, not the norm: no other company tracked comes close to either the addition or closure count.

Among the frontier labs, the more legible signal is Anthropic and OpenAI both continuing to staff physical and program-management layers rather than pure research. Anthropic's week has been dominated by Technical Program Manager roles in Silicon, Hardware Systems and RL Research — a pattern that recurs day over day rather than a one-off. OpenAI's new healthcare Forward Deployed Engineer roles, paired with PCBA manufacturing and compliance hires, point to two simultaneous tracks: a vertical go-to-market push into healthcare, and continued investment in the physical supply chain behind its compute buildout.

On the Chinese side, the week's clearest story is ByteDance's Doubao/Seed pulling back sharply — 41 closures against 3 additions today, and only 10 net adds over 7 days against a base of 910 open roles, the largest posting count of any company in this dataset. That imbalance has been building across recent reports and suggests active pruning of its listings rather than a slowdown in underlying activity. Baidu AI moved in the opposite direction, with all 7 of its new roles concentrated in enterprise and government sales for its AI cloud-compute business — a sign that monetization and account coverage, not model research, are where headcount is currently being added. Elsewhere among Chinese labs — DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Alibaba Tongyi Qwen and Tencent Hunyuan among them — hiring was flat or in slight contraction today, consistent with a market where a handful of players (Baidu, ByteDance, ModelBest) account for nearly all of the week's visible movement.

Smaller global labs offered two contrasting notes: Lovable, with just 70 open roles, added 8 in a day, four of them Data Scientist positions split across pricing, growth and agent work — unusually concentrated investment in a measurement and agent-tuning bench for a company of its size — while Cursor's three new roles were all APJ and Australia sales hires, pointing to international go-to-market build-out rather than product expansion this week.