AI Hiring Brief · 2026-09-09

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

Today at a glance

Anthropic's warehouse roles hint at physical build-out: Anthropic posted "Warehouse and Logistics Manager - North America" and "Warehouse and Logistics Manager - International," both filed under Software Engineering - Infrastructure rather than a facilities team — an unusual pairing that suggests physical hardware/datacenter logistics is now being coordinated inside the infra org, alongside a "Research Engineer, Takeoff Intel" and an "Applied AI Architect" opening in Sydney.
Baidu (百度 AI) stacks embodied intelligence and agents on the same day: Baidu's nine new postings include "具身智能数据与平台研发工程师" (embodied intelligence data & platform R&D engineer) and "具身智能仿真评测研发工程师" (embodied intelligence simulation evaluation engineer), plus two separate "Agent策略工程师" (agent strategy engineer) listings — robotics and agent work getting staffed in parallel.
ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) keeps cutting hard: 47 closures against a single addition today, the sharpest closure-to-addition ratio in the dataset, continuing a pattern of aggressive listing turnover rather than net growth.
Meta AI adds a hardware-architecture role inside AR/VR: "AI Systems Engineer, Hardware Architecture" sits jointly under AR/VR, AI Infrastructure, and Facebook Reality Labs, alongside a computer vision engineer and a PhD research scientist role in computer vision — hardware and multimodal research moving together.
Microsoft AI's volume remains an outlier: 21 additions and 37 closures in a single day, with 202 net additions over 7 days — no other tracked company runs at this scale, and today's postings lean toward global commercial roles (cloud solution architecture in Denmark, Azure sales in Germany, GTM leadership in Thailand) more than core research.

Company moves

OpenAI (777 open; 53 added over 7 days) added 7 roles and closed 10. New postings include "Applied AI Engineer, Government" in Washington, DC, a "Program Manager, Strategic Futures" under Global Affairs, an "Economic Development Lead," an "Account Director, Mid-Market" covering India, and a "Consumer Marketing Manager, Japan" — a day tilted toward government engagement and international go-to-market rather than core research.

Anthropic (589 open; 60 added over 7 days) added 6 and closed 8. Alongside the two warehouse/logistics roles noted above, it opened a "Manager, Account Executive - Financial Services" and "Strategic Pursuits Lead, RevOps" in sales, plus "Research Engineer, Takeoff Intel" and an "Applied AI Architect" in Sydney — commercial expansion running alongside safety-adjacent research staffing.

Google DeepMind (63 open; 15 added over 7 days) added 2 with no closures: a "Software Engineer, Automated Correctness and Testing" in Zürich and a "Technical Lead Manager, Applied AI" in Singapore — a small but geographically spread day, with applied AI leadership extending into Southeast Asia.

Microsoft AI (591 open; 202 added over 7 days) added 21 and closed 37 today. Beyond the commercial roles noted above, it also posted several "Senior Software Engineer" openings across Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Noida, an "Applied Science II" role split between Bangalore and Hyderabad, and a "Solution Engineer - AI Workforce Solution" in Bangkok — India-based engineering capacity growing alongside a broad international sales push.

Meta AI (171 open; 21 added over 7 days) added 4 with no closures: the hardware-architecture role under AR/VR, a "Computer Vision Engineer," and a "Research Scientist, Computer Vision (PhD)" split between Pittsburgh and Burlingame, plus a "Software Engineer, GenAI Frameworks" — vision and hardware research advancing together.

NVIDIA (英伟达; 559 open; 29 added over 7 days) added 7 and closed 8. The notable entry is an "ASIC Design Engineer, Tools and Methodology Development" in Austin, alongside several solutions-architect roles spanning diffusion models and data processing — silicon design work continuing next to customer-facing technical roles.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML; 293 open; 18 added over 7 days) added 4 and closed 3, including a "Machine Learning Engineer, Apple Foundation Models" in Cary and a "Machine Learning Research Engineer, Apple Intelligence" in Bengaluru — foundation-model engineering capacity extending into India.

SpaceXAI (255 open; 17 added over 7 days) added 1 and closed 3: a "Controls Technician (Physical Infrastructure) - Memphis," consistent with ongoing data center buildout.

Perplexity (113 open; 15 added over 7 days) added 1: an "Enablement Specialist, Perplexity Computer" in Sales, a small but notable sign of go-to-market support forming around its Computer product.

Lovable (82 open; 2 added over 7 days) added 1: an "Internal Communications Lead" in Stockholm.

Cohere (143 open; 4 added over 7 days) added 1 and closed 1: a "Technical Program Manager, AI Delivery."

Together AI (60 open; 4 added over 7 days) added 2 and closed 1, including a "Forward Deployed Engineer (Inference & Post-Training)" — customer-facing technical deployment work.

Scale AI (212 open; 10 added over 7 days) had no additions today but closed 3 listings.

Cerebras (112 open; 10 added over 7 days) added 2, including a "Network Security Engineer" and a "Distributed Software Engineer" in Toronto.

StepFun (阶跃星辰; 203 open; 48 added over 7 days) added 5 today: "高级SRE工程师" (senior SRE engineer), "AI 模型数据分析师" (AI model data analyst), "大数据平台 SRE 工程师" (big data platform SRE engineer), "测试开发工程师" (test development engineer), and "PC端开发工程师" (PC client development engineer) — a day squarely focused on data-platform and reliability infrastructure.

ModelBest (面壁智能; 119 open; 12 added over 7 days) added 4 and closed 2, including two automotive-focused "汽车行业客户经理" (automotive industry account manager) roles, a "客户经理（端侧大模型方向）" (account manager, on-device model direction), and an "Agentic算法工程师" (agentic algorithm engineer) — commercial push into automotive on-device deployment paired with agent-algorithm research.

Baidu AI (百度 AI; 461 open; 21 added over 7 days) added 9 and closed 4, with the embodied-intelligence and agent-strategy roles noted above, plus a "大模型AI产品经理" (large-model AI product manager) and a "商业化算法工程师" (monetization algorithm engineer).

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (906 open; 8 added over 7 days) added just 1 role — an "AIGC评测产品经理（生成质量方向）" (AIGC evaluation product manager, generation-quality direction) — against 47 closures.

The remaining tracked companies — Mistral AI, Cursor, Scale AI's additions, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Meituan LongCat, Tencent Hunyuan, MiniMax (Hailuo), 01.AI, SenseTime SenseNova, and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen — showed no new postings today.

What it signals

Over the past 7 days, Microsoft AI's 202 additions dwarf every other lab by more than 3x, and today's mix — cloud solution architects, Azure sales specialists, GTM leads — confirms that most of that volume is commercial infrastructure rather than research headcount. That's consistent with a platform company scaling deployment capacity for Copilot and Azure AI services across many national markets simultaneously, rather than a single product push.

Among the frontier labs, OpenAI and Anthropic show a similar structural pattern: both are growing sales/GTM and research in parallel, but today's specific roles differ in emphasis. OpenAI's additions skew toward government and international market entry (a DC-based government AI engineer, an economic development lead, market-specific marketing and account roles), while Anthropic's skew toward physical infrastructure and safety research (the warehouse/logistics pair under its infra org, plus Takeoff Intel). If the labeling under Software Engineering - Infrastructure is accurate, Anthropic's logistics hires suggest hardware/datacenter operations are being pulled inside engineering rather than run as a separate facilities function — worth watching in future editions to see if it recurs.

The Chinese labs diverge sharply in pace. StepFun and Baidu are both hiring briskly — StepFun concentrated entirely in data/SRE infrastructure, Baidu split across embodied intelligence, agent strategy, and monetization — while Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Tencent Hunyuan, 01.AI, and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen show zero movement today. ByteDance Doubao/Seed's ratio (47 closures to 1 addition) is the most extreme in the dataset and, combined with its already-large 906 open count, points to active listing-book cleanup rather than a hiring slowdown per se — likely stale or duplicate postings being retired rather than a pullback in demand.

Two smaller but concrete signals worth flagging: embodied intelligence and hardware are showing up across labs that don't typically emphasize robotics — Baidu's two embodied-intelligence R&D roles and Meta's AR/VR hardware-architecture posting land the same day as SpaceXAI's data-center controls technician and NVIDIA's ASIC design engineer. None of these alone indicates a trend, but the concurrence across four unrelated organizations is more than coincidental noise for a single day.