AI Hiring Brief · 2026-08-28

32 frontier AI labs · 78 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Anthropic doubles down on RL data infrastructure: two senior openings landed the same day — Staff+ Software Engineer, RL Data Platform and Staff+ Research Engineer, RL Data Platform — alongside Product Manager, Growth and Head of GTM Programs, pairing research-scaling investment with a commercialization push.
Microsoft AI runs its largest international sales sprint of the week: new postings span Singapore (Transformation Partner, two Azure Solution Specialist roles, APAC E2E Program Manager, Cloud Service Engineer), Tokyo (Agentic AI-Business Consultant | Enterprise), Copenhagen and Sweden — even as the lab logged 45 closures against 30 additions today.
OpenAI keeps building out Global Affairs alongside hardware: a US Congressional Lead in Washington, DC and a South America Lead, Global Affairs based in São Paulo joined a Hardware Engineer, Test role in the Scaling org.
Two labs post unusually heavy closure rounds: ByteDance Doubao/Seed closed 55 roles against just 1 addition, and Apple AIML closed 32 against 3 additions — the largest closure counts of the day, both without matching new-role volume.
StepFun (阶跃星辰) leads the pace among Chinese labs: 29 roles added over the past 7 days, more than any other China-based lab tracked, with a MaaS平台产品经理 (MaaS Platform Product Manager) role posted today.

Company moves

OpenAI (743 open; 64 added over 7 days, 7 today against 18 closures) split today's additions between global-affairs expansion — US Congressional Lead, South America Lead, Global Affairs (São Paulo) — and product/infra work: Hardware Engineer, Test, Software Engineer, Infrastructure, and Manager, Applied AI Engineering (Codex) for the Codex GTM team.

Anthropic (559 open; 96 added over 7 days — the fastest of any global lab — 7 today against 6 closures) paired the RL Data Platform hires above with Finance & Strategy GTM, EMEA in Dublin and Corporate Counsel, M&A, suggesting simultaneous investment in research infrastructure, European commercial footprint, and corporate development capacity.

Microsoft AI (606 open; 178 added over 7 days) posted 30 new roles today against 45 closures — its most volatile day this week — concentrated in APAC/EMEA solution sales (the Singapore/Tokyo/Copenhagen/Sweden cluster above) plus product roles like Principal Product Manager, AI Monetization, Ads & Creatives, Copilot and a Senior Applied Threat Intelligence Manager spanning Redmond, Reston and Mountain View.

Meta AI (155 open; 11 added over 7 days) added an Area Director for AI Infrastructure/Data Center and a Privacy Engineer, Implementation Review covering Generative AI, Security, Instagram and Messenger — continuing its data-center and trust-and-safety build-out.

NVIDIA (英伟达, 575 open; 54 added over 7 days) added 14 roles spanning autonomous vehicles (Senior Software Engineer, AV Planner), systems (Senior Hypervisor and RTOS Engineer, Compiler Engineer, Backend), and a China-specific Solution Architect - AI Labs post in Beijing.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML, 281 open) added 3 roles — including Places Data and ML Director in Cupertino and Senior EPM, China Infrastructure Operations in Beijing — against 32 closures, its heaviest closure count of the day.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed, 915 open, the largest headcount pool tracked) closed 55 roles today while adding only one — 大模型视觉产品经理（Seedream方向）- 火山引擎 (LLM Vision Product Manager, Seedream direction – Volcano Engine) — a sharp contraction against its modest 7-added, 7-day pace.

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元, 78 open; 15 added over 7 days) added 混元游戏生成算法工程师 (Hunyuan Game Generation Algorithm Engineer), extending its multimodal generation stack into gaming content.

Baidu AI (百度 AI, 452 open) added three Beijing-based roles spanning cloud/LLM business analysis, Java development, and AI-product marketing operations.

Smaller moves: SpaceXAI added an AV Administrator, Events & Experiences; Perplexity added a Forward Deployed Engineer, Perplexity Computer; Cursor added a Software Engineer, RL Data; Lovable added an AI Ops Engineer (FBOS); Cohere added a Strategic Sourcing Specialist and a People Systems and Automation Manager; Scale AI added a Head of Solutions Engineering, EMEA covering Doha, Dubai and Riyadh; ModelBest (面壁智能) added a 多模态大模型算法工程师 (Multimodal LLM Algorithm Engineer); and MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺) added a Video Model Open Source & Inference Lead in Shanghai.

Google DeepMind, Mistral AI, Together AI, Cerebras, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi), DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Meituan LongCat, 01.AI (Yi), SenseTime SenseNova and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen posted no net new roles today.

What it signals

The gap between global and Chinese labs' hiring pace remains wide: the 19 global-region companies in this tracking set added 493 roles over the past 7 days, versus 92 across the 13 China-based labs — roughly a 5-to-1 ratio. That gap isn't just about headcount; it also shows up in role mix. StepFun's 29 additions and Tencent Hunyuan's 15 skew toward algorithm and platform-engineering roles, while global leaders like Microsoft AI (178) and Anthropic (96) are adding sales, GTM and program-management capacity at a similar or greater clip than research roles — a sign those labs are further along in converting research output into go-to-market motion.

Anthropic's pairing of two Staff+ RL Data Platform roles with Product Manager, Growth and Head of GTM Programs on the same day is a small but concrete data point: the lab is investing in the data pipelines that feed reinforcement learning at the same time it's building out functions to monetize the resulting products. That combination — infra-heavy research hiring plus commercial hiring — has shown up in Anthropic's postings before, and today reinforces it rather than introducing something new.

Microsoft AI's day illustrates a different pattern: net headcount is still growing (178 over 7 days, more than any other lab), but daily churn is high, with 45 closures against just 30 additions today. Combined with the concentration of new roles in APAC and EMEA solution sales — Singapore alone accounts for five of today's postings — this reads as an organization actively re-shaping its sales bench market by market rather than simply expanding headcount uniformly.

The closure-heavy days at ByteDance Doubao/Seed (55 closed, 1 added) and Apple AIML (32 closed, 3 added) stand out because neither is matched by a comparable burst of new postings elsewhere in their pipelines today. Closures at this scale, without offsetting additions, typically reflect either a batch of previously-open reqs being filled or consolidated rather than a change in hiring appetite — but it's worth watching whether either lab's 7-day addition pace (7 for ByteDance, 15 for Apple) picks back up in the coming days or whether the contraction continues.