AI Hiring Brief · 2026-09-08

32 frontier AI labs · 35 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

DeepMind splits attention between robots and games: Google DeepMind's four new postings today span a "Mechanical Engineer, Robotics, DeepMind" in Cambridge, MA, alongside a "Gameplay Engineer, Games, DeepMind" and "Game Designer, Games, DeepMind" in London — physical robotics and games research getting staffed on the same day.
Anthropic pairs security research with sales expansion: Anthropic's two new listings today are a "Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)" in Zürich and an "Account Executive, Startups" in Dublin — safety-adjacent research and international go-to-market growing in tandem.
China's labs converge on agents: StepFun (阶跃星辰) posted a "VLM / Agent 感知算法工程师" (VLM/agent perception algorithm engineer), ModelBest (面壁智能) opened a "智能体后端工程师" (agent backend engineer), and SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新) added a "服务端架构师（AI agent方向）" (server-side architect, AI agent direction) — three separate Chinese labs staffing agent-facing roles on the same day.
ByteDance keeps trimming its listing book: ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) closed 23 listings today against just one addition, extending a pattern of heavy closures relative to new postings.
Microsoft AI's volume dwarfs everyone else: 16 additions and 30 closures today alone, including optimization-engineering roles in Israel and a Security Research Manager in the Czech Republic — infrastructure and security hiring at a scale no other tracked lab matches.

Company moves

OpenAI (780 open; 59 added over 7 days) added one role today, a "Strategy & Operations Lead - India" under Business Operations, alongside 3 closures — a small signal of continued India-market build-out.

Anthropic (589 open; 65 added over 7 days) added two roles today — "Account Executive, Startups" in Dublin and "Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning)" in Zürich — while closing 5 listings, pairing security research with sales expansion.

Google DeepMind (61 open; 13 added over 7 days) added four roles spanning robotics (a Cambridge, MA mechanical engineer) and its Games team (a gameplay engineer and game designer in London, plus a talent acquisition partner), against 8 closures — its smallest open count among major labs but a notably varied day.

Microsoft AI (596 open; 226 added over 7 days) added 16 roles and closed 30, the largest volume of any tracked company today. New postings include multiple "AI Optimization Software Engineer" roles in Israel, a "Security Research Manager" in the Czech Republic, and account/solution-engineering roles across the UAE, Singapore, Sweden, and Austria — a mix of core optimization engineering and global commercial expansion.

Meta AI (167 open; 22 added over 7 days) added a single "Machine Learning Engineer, Experimentation" role in London spanning AI Research, AI Infrastructure, and Advertising Technology, with no closures.

NVIDIA (英伟达) (560 open; 30 added over 7 days) added one "Federal Sales Account Manager" role in Australia and closed 2 listings — routine turnover against a steady weekly pace.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML) (292 open; 21 added over 7 days) added a "Machine Learning Engineer, AI and Data Platforms" role in Cork with no closures.

StepFun (阶跃星辰) (198 open; 43 added over 7 days) added a "VLM / Agent 感知算法工程师" role split across Xuhui and Haidian districts, while closing 4 listings — continued build-out of multimodal/agent perception work.

ModelBest (面壁智能) (117 open; 9 added over 7 days) added a "智能体后端工程师" (agent backend engineer) role in Beijing and closed 3 listings, another data point for agent-infrastructure hiring in China.

Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫) (71 open; 1 added over 7 days) added an "开源大模型生态增长实习生" (open-source LLM ecosystem growth intern) role in Beijing, its only movement this week.

Baidu AI (百度 AI) (456 open; 14 added over 7 days) added four roles today with no closures, including a hybrid-cloud AI compute solution architect, a multimodal algorithm engineer, and an AI application product operations role — a broad slate touching infrastructure, modeling, and product.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) (930 open; 8 added over 7 days) added one internal-control role focused on large models but closed 23 listings — its weekly net growth remains thin despite the largest open-role count of any company tracked.

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元) (75 open; 0 added over 7 days) closed 1 listing with no new postings, a flat week overall.

MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺) (194 open; 6 added over 7 days) closed 2 listings today with no additions.

01.AI (Yi) (零一万物) (42 open; 0 added over 7 days) closed 1 listing, its only activity this week.

SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新) (19 open; 1 added over 7 days) added a "服务端架构师（AI agent方向）" role in Beijing, its only posting this week.

The remaining 15 tracked companies — SpaceXAI, Perplexity, Mistral AI, Cursor, Lovable, Cohere, Together AI, Scale AI, Cerebras, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, DeepSeek (深度求索), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) — saw no additions or closures today.

What it signals

Over the past 7 days, Microsoft AI's 226 additions remain far ahead of every other lab, and today's mix — optimization engineers in Israel, a security research manager in the Czech Republic, and account/solution roles spread across the UAE, Singapore, Sweden, and Austria — suggests that volume is not just backend infrastructure work but also a parallel push to staff go-to-market and security functions globally. Anthropic (65 added over 7 days) and OpenAI (59 added over 7 days) are running at broadly comparable weekly paces to each other, both well behind Microsoft AI but far ahead of the rest of the global cohort; today's additions at both — a cybersecurity RL research engineer at Anthropic, a strategy lead in India at OpenAI — read as incremental extensions of existing research and geographic priorities rather than new directions.

Among China's labs, StepFun stands out with 43 additions over 7 days, the highest weekly figure of any Chinese company tracked and closer to Microsoft AI's pace than to its domestic peers; its "VLM / Agent 感知算法工程师" posting today fits a broader theme of Chinese labs simultaneously staffing agent-facing roles, echoed by ModelBest's "智能体后端工程师" and SenseTime's "服务端架构师（AI agent方向）". That three separate companies opened agent-related roles on the same day, despite otherwise low volumes (9, and 1 added over 7 days, respectively, for ModelBest and SenseTime), suggests agent productization is becoming a shared near-term priority across China's frontier labs rather than a single company's bet.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed presents the clearest contrast: it holds the largest open-role count of any tracked company (930) yet closed 23 listings today against a single addition, and its 7-day net of 8 added roles is thin relative to that scale — a pattern of aggressive listing turnover more than net expansion, consistent with the 79-listing purge noted in the prior day's report. Several other Chinese labs — Tencent Hunyuan, MiniMax, and 01.AI — recorded pure closures with zero additions this week, pointing to routine pipeline cleanup rather than active growth at those companies right now. Google DeepMind, meanwhile, remains the smallest by open-role count among the major global labs (61) but continues to diversify what it hires for, adding both a robotics mechanical engineer and games-team roles in the same batch — a reminder that DeepMind's hiring signal is better read by role variety than by raw volume.