AI Hiring Brief · 2026-08-27

32 frontier AI labs · 132 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Evaluation and safety hiring lands across labs at once: OpenAI's Product Manager, Multimodal Safety and Cyber Operations Strategist, Critical Harm Operations, Microsoft AI's Principal Applied Scientist for Copilot Evals / Senior Data Scientist for Copilot Evals / Principal Software Engineer for Copilot Evals trio, Scale AI's Machine Learning Research Scientist, Evaluations, and Tencent Hunyuan's (腾讯混元) red-team and risk-control cluster all posted the same day.
Data-center build-out keeps pulling in physical, not just technical, roles: SpaceXAI added a Construction Superintendent spanning Memphis and Southaven, Mississippi, Meta AI added a Campus Construction Manager in Rayville, Louisiana, and Anthropic's Compute org added a Data Center Portfolio Lead.
Anthropic pushes further into Europe: an Applied AI Strategist, EMEA in London, Applied AI Architect posts in Madrid and Milan (the latter titled Applied AI Architect, Industries), and an Enterprise Account Executive, Automotive in Paris landed together.
Microsoft AI is the day's most volatile lab: 41 additions against 49 closures — more closures logged than any other lab's additions — even while leading the field with 201 net roles added over the past seven days.
Tencent Hunyuan's busiest day: 10 of its 15 seven-day additions landed today, almost all in security, risk control and post-training data roles supporting its own agent stack.

Company moves

OpenAI (752 open; 64 added over 7 days, 16 today against 19 closures) extended its device push with Operating Systems Engineer | Consumer Devices and Systems Integration Manager | Consumer Devices, added a Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors - Texas in Forward Deployed Engineering, and posted a Product Manager, Multimodal Safety and a Cyber Operations Strategist, Critical Harm Operations.

Anthropic (556 open; 108 added over 7 days — the fastest of any lab — 18 today against 8 closures) built out Europe with an Applied AI Strategist, EMEA (London), Applied AI Architects in Madrid and Milan, and an Enterprise Account Executive, Automotive in Paris, alongside a Data Center Portfolio Lead in Compute and a Regulatory Investigations Counsel plus Discovery Operations Lead, Litigation & Regulatory in Legal.

Google DeepMind (76 open; 24 added over 7 days) added an Audio to Audio Research Scientist and a UX Designer, Human-Computer Interaction, both DeepMind-labeled.

Microsoft AI (603 open) posted 41 additions against 49 closures — the day's largest churn — and 201 added over 7 days. New roles cluster around Copilot evaluation (the Evals trio above) plus three Frontier Models "Member of Technical Staff" posts covering data flywheel infra, the AI data platform, and AI evaluations for health, and a Principal or Senior Quantum Engineer - Readout Design.

Meta AI (159 open; 12 added over 7 days) added a Campus Construction Manager for AI Infrastructure and a Software Engineer, Systems ML - Compilers / Backend.

NVIDIA (563 open; 44 added over 7 days, 11 today against 19 closed) spread across hardware and applied research: Senior Global Capacity Planner and Senior Mechanical Design Engineer in Israel, a Senior Perception Engineer, Obstacle Foundation Models - Autonomous Vehicles in Seoul, a Research Scientist, AI RL and LLMs, and an AI Native Startup Manager based remotely in the UK.

Apple AIML (309 open; 16 added over 7 days) added an AIML - Foundation Model Post-Training Research Scientist in Zurich and a Machine Learning Engineer, Human Centered AI - Evaluations & Insights in Seattle.

SpaceXAI (248 open; 16 added over 7 days, 13 closed today) added a Construction Superintendent for Data Center across Memphis and Southaven alongside a Client Account Manager - SMB.

Perplexity (102 open) put its entire day's growth into agents: Member of Technical Staff (AI Software Engineer, Agents) and Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Agent Harness).

Cursor (118 open; 6 added over 7 days) leaned into enterprise sales with a Regional Vice President, Healthcare Central, a Head of Americas Field Marketing, and an Account Executive, Commercial Expansion - New York.

Lovable (77 open) added a single Payroll Lead in Stockholm against three closures.

Cohere (145 open; 10 added over 7 days) added a Senior Mobile Engineer (iOS or Android), a Solutions Architect - Nordics, and a People Operations Manager, Data & Reporting.

Scale AI (219 open; 17 added over 7 days) split between public sector and research: a Deployment Strategist - DHS/DOJ, an Engagement Manager based in Riyadh, and two Machine Learning Research Scientist posts covering Evaluations and Post-Training.

Cerebras (110 open) added one Technical Program Manager, Manufacturing Test in Hardware against six closures.

Baidu AI (百度 AI, 451 open; 18 added over 7 days) posted nine roles today, almost all Sales/ACG: regional public-cloud and government-sector sales across Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai and East China, plus solution architects for the 医药 (pharma) and 生命科学 (life sciences) verticals.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed, 967 open — the largest base tracked) added a single AI产品经理（Agent/开放平台方向） (AI product manager, agent/open-platform direction) — modest daily growth relative to its size.

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元, 78 open) had its busiest day with 10 additions, heavy on safety and data: 混元Agent 后训练算法工程师（Red Team方向） (agent post-training engineer, red-team track), 混元风控算法工程师 (risk-control algorithm engineer), 混元移动安全逆向工程师 (mobile security reverse engineer), 混元数据与安全技术负责人（Tech Lead） (data & security tech lead), and 混元大模型数据标注平台产品经理 (data-labeling platform PM).

ModelBest (面壁智能, 132 open; 8 added over 7 days) added a 基础模型HRBP (foundation-model HR business partner) in Beijing — a staffing role for its model team, not a technical one.

MiniMax (Hailuo, 海螺, 196 open) added an AI Infra 研发工程师 - 研发效能与质量方向 (AI infra engineer, R&D efficiency and quality).

01.AI (Yi, 零一万物, 45 open) added a 安全研发实习生 (security R&D intern).

Mistral AI, Together AI, 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), Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫), SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新) and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) showed no new postings today.

What it signals

The seven-day figures separate the field into two speeds. Anthropic (108 added) and Microsoft AI (201 added) are growing fast in absolute terms, but they get there differently: Anthropic's 18-added/8-closed day reads as durable net expansion, while Microsoft's 41-added/49-closed day is closer to a pipeline refresh than pure growth — more roles were closed today than any other lab even posted. NVIDIA (44) and OpenAI (64) sit in a steadier middle band, with OpenAI's 16 additions against 19 closures showing the same near-even churn pattern as Microsoft, just at smaller scale.

Physical infrastructure hiring is showing up everywhere, not just at the largest labs. SpaceXAI's Construction Superintendent and Meta AI's Campus Construction Manager are literal building roles; Anthropic's Data Center Portfolio Lead and Microsoft's quantum-engineering and AI-infra posts sit one layer up from that; OpenAI's Technical Deployment Lead, Semiconductors - Texas and NVIDIA's Israel-based capacity and mechanical-design roles round out a pattern where compute build-out is being staffed as a construction and supply-chain problem as much as a software one.

Evaluation and safety are consolidating into a distinct hiring line rather than sitting inside general research postings. Microsoft AI's three-role Copilot Evals cluster plus a separate AI Evaluations, Health post, OpenAI's Product Manager, Multimodal Safety, Scale AI's Evaluations research scientist, and Tencent Hunyuan's red-team, risk-control and mobile-security cluster all appeared on the same day, across both US and Chinese labs — evidence that as models scale, the eval and safety function is being built out in parallel with capability work rather than trailing it.

The pace gap between global and Chinese labs is visible in how their weekly totals arrive. Anthropic, Microsoft AI and OpenAI post additions most days. Several Chinese labs move in bursts instead: StepFun (阶跃星辰) logged 28 additions over seven days but none today, and Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi) added 8 over the week with a quiet day today. DeepSeek (深度求索), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI) and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) show zero movement in both windows. ByteDance Doubao/Seed, despite carrying the largest open count tracked at 967, added only 12 over the week — a large, mature posting base with a comparatively slow refresh rate, in contrast to Tencent Hunyuan's smaller base moving in a concentrated, security-heavy burst.