AI Hiring Brief · 2026-08-12

32 frontier AI labs · 96 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Hardware and robotics keep surfacing: OpenAI posted a Technical Commodity Manager - Robotics under Research, and Google DeepMind (谷歌 DeepMind) added a Staff Mechanical Engineer, Physics and a Firmware/Embedded Engineer, Sensing and Comms — both in Cambridge, MA — extending the embodied-AI hardware thread from the prior day.
Anthropic scales compute go-to-market internationally: three new Compute Country Lead roles (Canada, Korea, Japan) plus an APAC Tax Lead in Singapore point to Anthropic building dedicated regional compute operations rather than running international growth centrally out of the US.
Safety operations show up on both US labs' boards: OpenAI added a Technical Program Manager, AI Safety & Safeguards and a Senior Program Manager, Consumer Device Safety Operations; Anthropic added a Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra alongside Health/Environment Safety Specialists in San Francisco, Dublin, and London.
Microsoft AI churns hard while still leading net growth: 33 additions against 61 closures today (net -28) is the sharpest single-day contraction on the board, yet its 218 net roles over 7 days remains far ahead of every other company tracked.
China's board is mostly quiet today: 8 of the 13 China-based labs tracked — Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi) is not among them but DeepSeek, Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), StepFun (阶跃星辰), Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元), and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) among them — logged zero activity, and Baidu AI (百度 AI) posted 16 closures against just 4 new roles.

Company moves

OpenAI: 9 new roles (73 over 7 days), 7 closures. The slate mixes enterprise/finance product work (Backend Software Engineer - Codex for Finance, Principal Software Engineer - Enterprise Technology Vertical, both Applied AI), sales (Enterprise Sales Manager, Energy), and the robotics commodity-management and safety-ops roles noted above.

Anthropic: 18 new roles (48 over 7 days), 10 closures — its biggest single day this window. Beyond the compute country leads, it added AI Infrastructure Operations and Infrastructure Capacity Planner roles under Demand Planning, a Personnel Security Management Specialist, and GTM roles (Enterprise Account Executive - Retail in London; Senior Partner Account Manager, Global Systems Integrator Alliances).

Google DeepMind (谷歌 DeepMind): 4 new roles (23 over 7 days), 4 closures — a flat net day, but the mechanical and firmware/embedded hires alongside a Staff Research Engineer, Applied AI keep the hardware line moving.

Microsoft AI: 33 new roles (218 over 7 days), 61 closures. New postings span core Redmond software engineering, a Director of AI Inferencing Portfolio Planning, a Director of AI Supercomputing Delivery, a Senior Validation Engineer in Silicon Engineering (Mountain View), and a wide spread of sales/solution-engineering roles across India, Israel, Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Meta AI: 2 new roles (11 over 7 days) — both Software Engineer, Machine Learning postings in Menlo Park spanning AI Infrastructure and Advertising Technology, a narrow but infra-adjacent add.

NVIDIA (英伟达): 7 new roles (37 over 7 days), 10 closures, including a PCB Design Layout Engineer, a Mechanical Engineer, and a Senior Power Architect, Power and Performance Analysis Tools — all Santa Clara — reinforcing its physical chip-design bench.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML): 5 new roles (20 over 7 days), including a Multimodal AI Researcher and a Staff/Sr. ML Compute Efficiency Engineer, pairing model-capability and training-efficiency work.

SpaceXAI: just 1 new role today (Research Analyst, Engineering, New York) against 8 closures, but 39 net over 7 days keeps it among the faster-growing global boards.

Perplexity: 1 new role, Account Executive - API, a small commercial-expansion signal.

Lovable: 2 new roles — IT Specialist (Stockholm) and Mid Market Account Executive (New York/San Francisco) — operational and sales scaling.

Cohere: 5 new roles, all tied to its Agentic Platform (Engineering Manager, FDE Agentic Platform; Software Engineer, Integrations; Senior Full-Stack Engineer, North Tools & Retrieval) plus Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist roles for Singapore and South Korea — a clear APAC forward-deployment push around agent tooling.

Scale AI: 3 new roles, led by an Operations Program Manager/Associate, Industrial Partnerships - Robotics in Mexico City under Physical AI Operations — continued build-out of its physical-AI/robotics operations function.

Baidu AI (百度 AI): 4 new roles against 16 closures — a net-contraction day — though the additions (DuMate产品解决方案架构师/DuMate solution architect; 千帆MaaS PDSA) still track its Qianfan MaaS platform.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed): just 1 new role today, an Agentic Infra position tied to TikTok's content-safety platform, against 945 open roles — still China's largest board by far but adding slowly (10 net over 7 days).

MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺): 1 new role, 后端工程架构师-开放平台 (backend platform architect, open platform) — open-platform build-out.

01.AI (Yi) (零一万物): no new roles today, 1 closure, 3 net over 7 days.

The remaining companies tracked — Mistral AI, Cursor, Together AI, Cerebras, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi), DeepSeek (深度求索), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), StepFun (阶跃星辰), ModelBest (面壁智能), Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫), Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元), SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新), and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) — showed no new postings or closures today.

What it signals

The 7-day totals make the global/China split stark: the 19 global companies tracked added 526 net roles over the past week, versus 56 net roles across the 13 China-based labs — roughly a 9-to-1 gap. Microsoft AI's own 7-day total (218) exceeds the combined weekly output of every China-based lab in this data set. That doesn't mean Chinese labs are shrinking — Baidu AI, ByteDance Doubao/Seed, Moonshot AI, and ModelBest (面壁智能) all logged net-positive weeks — but the pace of public hiring activity on these boards is running far behind the largest US players right now, and several of the largest China boards (Zhipu AI, DeepSeek, Tencent Hunyuan, StepFun) show no movement at all this week.

Within the global cohort, the roles being added skew toward infrastructure and go-to-market rather than pure research. Anthropic's three new Compute Country Lead postings plus an APAC Tax Lead suggest it is standing up local operating entities to sell and support compute capacity market-by-market, a heavier commitment than a typical remote sales hire. Microsoft AI's Director of AI Supercomputing Delivery and Senior Validation Engineer in Silicon Engineering point the same direction — buildout of the physical layer underneath model serving — even as the same board shed 61 roles in a single day, the largest closure count of any company today.

Safety-adjacent hiring is a recurring thread rather than a one-off: OpenAI and Anthropic both added safety operations and safeguards infrastructure roles today, following a similar safety-research posting from OpenAI in the prior edition. Robotics and physical-AI hiring is similarly persistent — DeepMind's mechanical/firmware hires, OpenAI's robotics commodity manager, and Scale AI's Physical AI Operations role in Mexico City all landed the same day, suggesting embodied-AI work is now a steady undercurrent across multiple labs rather than concentrated in one.