AI Hiring Brief · 2026-09-15

32 frontier AI labs · 94 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Microsoft's internal reshuffle: Microsoft AI posted 43 new roles today but closed 106 of them — the sharpest single-day churn in this dataset — with the closures concentrated around a wave of cleared and Top Secret cloud/security postings (Cloud Solution Architect - CTJ - Top Secret, three separate Software Engineer II - CTJ - Poly listings) plus a security-heavy slate (Principal Security Architect, Security Researcher II, Security Sales Specialist), suggesting a reorganization of its government and security cloud business rather than a slowdown; its 183 additions over the past 7 days are still the highest in the dataset.
OpenAI localizes go-to-market on three continents at once: three of today's OpenAI roles target São Paulo alone (Influencer Program Lead, B2B Marketing Lead, Integrated Marketing Manager, all LATAM), alongside standalone leads for Tokyo, Seoul and a B2B Marketing Manager for DACH — a simultaneous push into regional commercial infrastructure.
Physical and hardware AI surfaced across three labs on the same day: NVIDIA opened a PCB Design Layout Engineer and a PhD Research Intern for Autonomous Systems and Physical AI Research, Google DeepMind added a Senior Network Engineer for Robotics, and SpaceXAI posted a Production Coordinator (Logistics) for its Data Center group spanning Southaven, MS and Memphis, TN.
China's hiring narrows to a handful of verticalizing labs: ModelBest (面壁智能) opened 法律AI产品实习生 (Legal AI Product Intern) and 行业解决方案专家 (Industry Solutions Expert) roles, and Baidu AI (百度 AI) added a 金融业务组-华南金融行业大客户经理（J105666） (South China financial-industry key account manager) — even as ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) logged 26 closures against only 2 additions, its steepest one-day cut in the window.
Security is turning into its own agent category: Cohere posted a Software Engineer, Security Agents role the same day Microsoft AI's slate leaned heavily on security hires — a small but concrete signal that "security agents" is becoming a distinct engineering line rather than a subset of trust-and-safety.

Company moves

OpenAI added 11 roles today (67 over 7 days, 8 closed today). Beyond the LATAM and Tokyo/Seoul/DACH commercial hires, it also opened an AI Infrastructure Engineer, pAGI seat in Research and an Applied AI Engineer, Government, International role in London under OpenAI for Gov — international sales scaling alongside a narrow research-infra hire.

Anthropic added just 1 role today (44 over 7 days, 6 closed today): a Forward Deployed Engineer in London under Applied AI, continuing its build-out of client-facing deployment capacity in Europe.

Google DeepMind added 5 roles today (24 over 7 days, 7 closed): a GenAI Technical Engagement Lead, a Research Engineer for "Info Task," a Research Scientist for "SAMBA," the robotics network engineer noted above, and a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the Gemini mobile app — research, robotics infra and consumer product engineering advancing together.

Microsoft AI — detailed above — also expanded engineering headcount internationally (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Beijing, Suzhou, Prague) and added a Talent Sourcer, AI role, i.e., hiring the recruiting pipeline for AI positions specifically.

Meta AI added 3 roles today (26 over 7 days): two Data Engineer, Meta Superintelligence Labs seats — one on the mobile client, one on privacy — plus an Enterprise Technical Sales Manager, EMEA.

NVIDIA (英伟达) added 7 roles today (41 over 7 days, 4 closed): deep-learning solutions architecture in Tel Aviv, applied AI engineering in Santa Clara, the PCB layout and physical-AI intern roles noted above, and a Senior Technical Program Manager for Nemotron.

SpaceXAI added 4 roles today (7 over 7 days, 1 closed): the data-center coordinator role above, plus network engineers in Dublin and Palo Alto and a remote AI Tutor - Video (Weekend) role under Vision.

Cursor closed 4 roles today and added 1 (5 over 7 days): a Deal Desk Analyst - Americas under Revenue Operations.

Cohere added 2 roles today (8 over 7 days, 2 closed): the Security Agents engineering seat above, plus a Senior Account Executive, SLED (East).

Together AI added 1 role today (7 over 7 days): a Strategic Account Executive Inference EMEA, continuing its push to sell inference capacity into Europe.

Scale AI added 4 roles today (16 over 7 days, 1 closed), all tied to university recruiting — Software Engineering Interns and New Grad Software Engineers in Doha, Qatar and London.

ModelBest (面壁智能) added 3 and closed 3 today (9 over 7 days): the legal-AI intern and industry-solutions roles above plus 大模型技术项目经理 (LLM Technical Project Manager) — verticalizing even as it churns an equal number of listings.

Baidu AI (百度 AI) added 5 roles today (26 over 7 days, 7 closed): backend and infra engineers for its MaaS platform and foundation-model data/evaluation stack (MaaS-大模型平台后端研发工程师, 大模型AI Infra平台研发工程师, 大模型数据/评估平台工程师), the financial-industry account manager above, and a client engineer for its DuMate assistant (DuMate端开发组_客户端研发工程师（PC + Mobile）) — infra investment paired with vertical sales.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) added 2 roles today against 26 closures (5 over 7 days): the two new roles are 大模型应用开发工程师 - TikTok用户增长 and 大模型应用工程师 - 抖音研发, i.e., consumer app work continuing even as the listings book is pruned hard.

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元) added 1 role today (1 over 7 days): TIONE-AI智能网关高级后台研发工程师-上海/杭州/深圳/北京 (Senior backend engineer for the TIONE-AI intelligent gateway).

01.AI (Yi) (零一万物) added 1 role today (3 over 7 days, 1 closed): Ontology算法负责人 (Ontology Algorithm Lead), an unusual knowledge-representation hire for an otherwise quiet lab.

MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺) closed 6 roles today with no replacements, against a 7-day net of 4 added.

A handful of labs moved only at the margins: Apple AIML added 14 over the past week but closed 3 with nothing new posted today; Perplexity added 7 over the week with no titles today; Lovable closed 2 against a weekly net of 4; Cerebras and StepFun (阶跃星辰) each grew quietly (5 and 9 over seven days) without a single visible title today. Nine labs were completely flat on both counts: Mistral AI, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, DeepSeek (深度求索), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫), SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新) and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问).

What it signals

Microsoft AI's week looks large on paper — 183 net additions, more than double OpenAI's 67 and over four times Anthropic's 44 — but today's own ratio (43 added against 106 closed) shows this is churn inside an already large book of roles, not straightforward expansion. The concentration on cleared/Top Secret cloud and security titles points to internal reallocation toward federal and security-cloud capacity rather than broad headcount growth.

OpenAI and Anthropic kept up solid weekly totals but with different shapes. OpenAI's week is dominated by international commercial buildout — LATAM, DACH, Tokyo, Seoul all in a single day — while Anthropic's only visible new role continues a narrower pattern of Applied AI forward-deployment hiring in Europe, consistent with a smaller, more enterprise-services-shaped organization.

China's labs remain comparatively quiet in aggregate: of the thirteen China-region labs tracked, five logged zero change on both the day and the week — DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Meituan LongCat, SenseTime SenseNova and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen — while nearly all visible activity concentrates in Baidu AI (26 over 7 days) and ModelBest and StepFun (9 each). ByteDance Doubao/Seed, the largest China-region employer tracked here at 913 open roles, added only 5 over the week against 26 closures in a single day — the clearest deceleration signal among any lab today.

Outside Microsoft's internal reshuffle, the week's more interesting thread is infrastructure and go-to-market rather than new model research: NVIDIA, DeepMind and SpaceXAI all touched physical-layer or robotics-adjacent hiring on the same day, Scale AI expanded campus recruiting into Doha and London, and Together AI added dedicated EMEA inference sales capacity — a pattern of labs building out delivery and commercial reach around existing models rather than announcing new research directions.