AI Hiring Brief · 2026-08-15

32 frontier AI labs · 101 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Memphis data-center build-out continues: SpaceXAI posted five Data Center roles in Memphis, Tennessee in a single day — Supervisor, Facilities Technician, Facilities Specialist, Sr. Manager, and Manager, all under Data Center Facilities — a tight cluster suggesting active headcount ramp at one physical site.
Biosecurity and frontier-safety hires surface at Google DeepMind: with only 2 new postings today, both were safety-adjacent — a Principal Virologist, Responsible Development and Innovation and a Governance Manager, Frontier AI Safety and Policy — a small but pointed pairing rather than routine engineering volume.
Custom silicon threads run through two labs at once: Meta AI's Compiler Engineer, MTIA Software (Technical Leadership) and NVIDIA's SOC Verification Engineer both point to continued in-house chip work running alongside each company's broader hiring.
Lovable adds enterprise security depth: two Staff/Principal Software Engineer roles (Detection and Response; Infrastructure Security) plus a Product Manager for Identity & Access Management mark a shift toward enterprise-grade security posture at a company better known for consumer-facing "vibe coding."
International commercial expansion on both coasts of the field: OpenAI opened a Head of Deal Strategy, APAC role in Singapore, and Cohere posted a Government Affairs Lead for the Middle East (UAE or Saudi Arabia) — separate labs building out regional go-to-market and policy presence on the same day.

Company moves

OpenAI: 11 new roles today (56 over 7 days), 4 closures. Postings cluster in brand and product marketing — Integrated Marketing Manager, Brand & Customer; Product Marketing Lead, ChatGPT Work; Product Marketing Manager, IT Admin and Governance; Head of Marketing Technology (MarTech) — alongside a Product Designer, Identity and two Network Engineer security roles in San Francisco and London.

Anthropic: 10 new roles today, its largest weekly net add at 71 over 7 days against just 3 closures. New postings include a Strategic Partner Development role for semiconductors, an IP Counsel for patents, a Strategic Account Executive for Industries, and a run of marketing roles tied to co-marketing and enterprise community-building.

Google DeepMind: 2 new roles today (24 over 7 days), 2 closures — the virologist and frontier-safety governance manager noted above.

Microsoft AI: the day's largest volume in both directions — 36 additions against 38 closures (net -2 for the day), even as its 7-day net of 195 stays far ahead of any other company tracked. New roles span software engineering across Redmond, Dublin, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Suzhou, several Applied Scientist postings for Ads Ranking & Retrieval in Bangalore, and a Principal Product Manager, Content AI — broad global engineering scale-up running alongside ads-ranking investment.

Meta AI: 4 new roles today (19 over 7 days) — AI Software Engineer, Systems ML - Wearables AI; AI Research Manager - Meta Superintelligence Labs; the MTIA compiler role noted above; and a Software Engineer Manager, ML Infra.

NVIDIA: 6 new roles today (27 over 7 days), 6 closures. Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Safety; Senior Deep Learning Algorithm Engineer; SOC Verification Engineer; Senior Applied Research Scientist, Multimodal Foundation Models – Healthcare; and Senior HPC and Quantum Systems Engineer — safety, multimodal healthcare, and quantum/HPC research all represented.

Apple AIML: 4 new roles today (19 over 7 days), 3 closures. A Staff Research Scientist, Siri Innovation Studio in Seattle and an AIML Researcher – Foundation Model, Post-Training in Zurich sit alongside two Applied Data Solutions Program roles in Austin and Cupertino.

SpaceXAI: 5 new roles today, all Memphis data-center facilities positions (34 over 7 days) — see above.

Cursor: 1 new role today (2 over 7 days), 1 closure — a Sales Development Leader, APJ in Singapore, its only visible move.

Lovable: 5 new roles today (12 over 7 days), no closures — enterprise sales (Sales Manager, Enterprise & Strategic; Strategic Account Executive) plus the security/IAM cluster noted above.

Cohere: 3 new roles today (12 over 7 days), 6 closures — the day's most visible closure round outside Microsoft. New postings: the Middle East Government Affairs Lead, a Senior Account Executive in Vancouver, and a Data Engineer, Data Foundations on the Agentic Platform team.

Scale AI: 2 new roles today (14 over 7 days) — a Strategic Finance Manager, Corporate and a Forward Deployed Product Designer split between New York and Washington, DC.

Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi): 1 new role today (7 over 7 days), 2 closures — a campus-recruit 【校招】推理框架工程师 (Inference Framework Engineer) posted in both Huangpu and Haidian districts.

StepFun (阶跃星辰): 5 new roles today, its largest single-day count among China-based labs (8 over 7 days), no closures — all built around a voice-API product line: 大模型应用产品经理（语音API）(LLM Application PM, Voice API), 后端研发工程师（语音API）(Backend Engineer, Voice API), AI数据分析工程师 (AI Data Analyst Engineer), and 后端研发工程师（MaaS服务）(Backend Engineer, MaaS Service), split between Haidian and Xuhui districts.

ModelBest (面壁智能): no new roles today, but 5 added over 7 days against 1 closure — a quiet net-positive week.

Baidu AI (百度 AI): no new roles today, but 20 added over 7 days against 3 closures — the largest 7-day net gain among China labs after ByteDance.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed): 2 new roles today (10 over 7 days), 2 closures — 算法工程师（大模型）- TikTok研发 (Algorithm Engineer, Large Model – TikTok R&D) split between Shanghai and Beijing, and 豆包视频通话运营专家 - AI数据与安全 (Doubao Video Call Operations Specialist, AI Data & Security) in Beijing.

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元): no new roles today or over 7 days, but 2 closures — a quiet contraction rather than a hiring signal.

MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺): 3 new roles today (6 over 7 days) — 存储平台架构师 (Storage Platform Architect) and 异构智算平台架构师 (Heterogeneous Compute Platform Architect) split between Beijing and Shanghai, plus an 开源 Agent 开发者生态实习生 (Open-Source Agent Developer Ecosystem Intern) in Shanghai.

SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新): 1 new role today (1 over 7 days) — 端侧多模态智能体算法研究员 (On-Device Multimodal Agent Algorithm Researcher) in Beijing.

Perplexity, Mistral AI, Together AI, Cerebras, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Meituan LongCat, 01.AI (Yi), and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen posted no new roles and no closures today.

What it signals

The gap in 7-day net additions among global labs remains wide: Microsoft AI's 195 dwarfs Anthropic's 71 and OpenAI's 56, with SpaceXAI (34), NVIDIA (27), Google DeepMind (24), Meta AI (19) and Apple AIML (19) trailing further behind. But Microsoft's own daily figures — 36 added against 38 closed — show that its enormous weekly total is less a smooth ramp and more a high-churn requisition cycle across a very large open pool (587 roles), whereas Anthropic's 71 net adds against only 3 closures this week reads as more purely additive growth relative to its 428 open roles.

The roles appearing today also split cleanly along a hardware/go-to-market axis. SpaceXAI's five Memphis facilities postings, Meta's MTIA compiler role, NVIDIA's SOC Verification Engineer, and Apple's Zurich foundation-model researcher all sit on the physical/model-infrastructure side. At the same time, OpenAI's marketing cluster, Anthropic's partnerships and legal hires, and Cohere's Middle East government-affairs role sit on the commercialization side. Both tracks are moving concurrently at the top labs, rather than one crowding out the other.

China-based labs are hiring at a visibly slower cadence this week: Baidu AI's 20 net adds and ByteDance Doubao/Seed's 10 are the largest among them, while Moonshot AI, MiniMax, StepFun, ModelBest and SenseTime SenseNova each added single digits over 7 days. ByteDance Doubao/Seed's open count of 946 — the largest of any company tracked — paired with only 10 weekly additions suggests a mature, largely-staffed pipeline rather than a pause in growth. Tencent Hunyuan's 2 closures with zero additions this week is the one clear contraction signal on the China side, mirrored loosely by Cohere's 6 closures against 3 additions today among global labs — pruning is happening in both markets, just not at comparable scale to the additions.

Safety and security roles remain a small but steady thread rather than the dominant driver of today's volume: Google DeepMind's virologist and frontier-safety governance manager, NVIDIA's Machine Learning Safety engineer, and Lovable's two security-infrastructure hires all appeared alongside much larger batches of sales, marketing, and general engineering postings — consistent with safety hiring proceeding as ongoing background investment rather than a today-specific inflection point.