AI Hiring Brief · 2026-09-11

32 frontier AI labs · 123 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Robotics hardware cluster at OpenAI: new postings for Motor Design & Prototyping, Manufacturing Engineer (Motors & Actuators), Dynamometer/Actuator Testing, a Senior Manager for Robotics EHS, and a Hardware Strategic Sourcing Manager for Optics all landed in Research and Scaling on the same day — a coordinated physical-hardware build-out well beyond model research.
Microsoft AI's volume dwarfs every other tracked lab: 61 additions and 77 closures in a single day, with 191 net adds over 7 days — no other company in this dataset comes close to that scale of listing turnover.
A trust-and-escalation layer is forming at Anthropic: a Social Escalations Program Manager, an Executive Escalations Manager, and a Customer Trust Specialist (filed under Security) appeared alongside continued inference and compute engineering hires — enterprise support scaling in step with infrastructure.
StepFun is the outlier among Chinese labs: 39 roles added over 7 days, versus single digits or zero at every other China-based company tracked here, led by large-model training- and algorithm-framework engineering roles.
Silicon and multimodal work surface together: NVIDIA opened an ASIC Design Engineer (Clocks IP) and a Formal Verification Engineer, while Google DeepMind added a Research Engineer for Gemini Omni and a robotics pre-training scientist — custom chips and frontier multimodal work advancing in parallel at two different labs.

Company moves

OpenAI added 15 and closed 16 today (55 over 7 days). Beyond the robotics-hardware cluster, it opened Product Designer roles for Codex, Accessibility, and Youth, plus international operations hires — a Partnerships Operations Lead for OAI for Government in Washington, DC, and a Technical Program Manager, Manufacturing Operations in Singapore — pairing physical build-out with product surface and international-operations growth.

Anthropic added 8 and closed 12 (53 over 7 days). Alongside the escalations/trust roles, it opened sales hires — Reseller Partner Manager (London), Strategic Account Executive, Tech, Partnerships Manager, US Public Health — and infra roles (Staff Software Engineer: Compute; Performance Engineer, Inference Engine), suggesting enterprise support is scaling in step with commercial reach and inference infrastructure.

Google DeepMind (谷歌 DeepMind) added 3 and closed 1 (20 over 7 days): a Research Engineer for Gemini Omni, a Research Scientist for Robotics Pre-Training and Data Quality, and a Technical Program Manager for RL Scaling — a small batch spanning multimodal, robotics, and scaling.

Microsoft AI added 61 and closed 77 today. New postings run heavily through sales and solution-architecture roles across Ireland, Norway, Japan, Germany, Costa Rica, Taiwan, the Philippines, the UAE, and Canada, with a thinner core of hardware (a Packaging Engineer under Hardware Engineering) and applied science (two Principal Applied Scientist roles in Redmond) underneath the commercial volume.

Meta AI added 6, no closures (28 over 7 days): a Research Scientist, AI (Technical Leadership), a Data Engineer for Meta Superintelligence Labs, and a Visiting Hardware Engineer — research leadership and hardware touch points inside its AI research org.

NVIDIA (英伟达) added 8 and closed 7 (29 over 7 days). The ASIC Design Engineer and Formal Verification Engineer postings extend its custom-silicon work; an ML Data Operations Lead for autonomous-vehicle dataset release also appeared.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML) added 1 and closed 5 — a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ML Systems Evaluation Engineering in Cupertino was the day's only addition against a net contraction.

SpaceXAI added none today but 6 over 7 days, with one closure — steady but unremarkable movement.

Perplexity added 1 and closed 2 (3 over 7 days): a Member of Technical Staff, Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities — hiring still pointed squarely at agents.

Cursor added 3, no closures (7 over 7 days): a GTM Strategy & Ops Lead – APJ (Singapore/Japan) and a GTM Applications Engineer signal international go-to-market build-out alongside a New Grad 2027 engineering opening.

Lovable added 1 and closed 3 (4 over 7 days): a Mid-Market Account Executive, Nordics in Stockholm — regional sales expansion.

Cohere added 2 and closed 3 (3 over 7 days): a Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist for the Middle East (Dubai/Riyadh) and a Talent Partner, GTM in London — Middle East deployment paired with recruiting capacity.

Together AI added 3 over 7 days with none today and no closures — no titles surfaced.

Scale AI added 4, no closures (16 over 7 days): a Senior ML Engineer and a Technical Program Manager (Cyber), both Public Sector, plus two forward-deployed full-stack roles in Riyadh — government and Middle East delivery work continuing.

Cerebras added 2 and closed 2 (4 over 7 days): a Software Engineer for Host and Network IO and a Staff GPU Inference SDET, both spanning Sunnyvale and Toronto.

Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi) saw one closure today and no additions over the past week — quiet.

StepFun (阶跃星辰) added 3 today and 39 over 7 days, the largest weekly gain of any Chinese lab tracked: a large-model training-framework engineer, an algorithm-framework researcher/engineer, and an open-platform growth-operations role point to infra scaling paired with user-growth hiring.

ModelBest (面壁智能) added 2 but closed 15 today (7 over 7 days) — a notably large single-day cleanup. The survivors: a Technical PR Expert in Beijing and a Hardware Expert/Hardware Solution Architect in Shenzhen.

Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫) added 1 role over 7 days with none today — negligible movement.

Baidu AI (百度 AI) added none today but 19 over 7 days, against 5 closures today — a net-positive week despite today's pruning.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) added 2 but closed 17 today (7 over 7 days): new roles include a Doubao voice-model product manager (ToB) and an LLM demo/technical-exploration solutions role for its Volcano Engine platform — small additions against a large single-day cull.

MiniMax (海螺/Hailuo) added 1, no closures (8 over 7 days): an AI model service and ecosystem-partnerships role in Shanghai.

01.AI (零一万物, Yi) added 2 over 7 days with none today and no closures. SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新) added 1 over 7 days with none today and no closures.

Mistral AI, Cursor's counterpart Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, DeepSeek (深度求索), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元), and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) showed no listing movement today or over the past 7 days.

What it signals

The clearest infrastructure story this week is OpenAI's hardware push: motor design, actuator manufacturing, dynamometer testing, and robotics EHS management don't appear together by accident — this is a company building toward physical products, not just adding a robotics research line. Anthropic's parallel move, standing up escalation and customer-trust roles alongside inference-path engineering, reads as the operational cost of enterprise scale: once a model is serving paying customers at volume, support and trust infrastructure has to be built out as deliberately as the model-serving stack itself.

Microsoft AI's 191 net additions over 7 days, against a single-day churn of 61 added and 77 closed, is on a different order of magnitude from any other company in this dataset — and the composition matters as much as the volume. The bulk of new roles are sales specialists, solution architects, and account executives spread across more than a dozen countries, with only a handful of core engineering and applied-science roles mixed in. That skew suggests Microsoft's AI hiring motion right now is weighted toward monetizing and deploying existing capability internationally rather than expanding the research core.

Chinese labs show a much wider spread than usual. StepFun's 39 additions over 7 days stand in sharp contrast to a cluster of major labs — DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Tencent Hunyuan, and Alibaba's Tongyi Qwen — that added nothing at all over the same window. ModelBest and ByteDance's Doubao/Seed team both show large single-day closure counts (15 and 17, respectively) against small addition counts, which looks more like listing housekeeping or reorganization than genuine contraction, especially since ModelBest's survivors include a hardware architect role. Baidu AI's 19 additions over 7 days with zero today suggests its hiring came in an earlier burst rather than a steady daily cadence.

Taken together, the week's pattern splits along a familiar line: global frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA) are still adding specialized technical and hardware roles even as Microsoft leans into commercial scale-out, while most Chinese labs are quiet except for StepFun's concentrated infrastructure and growth push — a reminder that hiring intensity in China's AI sector remains far more uneven across companies than it is globally.