AI Hiring Brief · 2026-09-18

32 frontier AI labs · 95 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Microsoft AI dominates volume in both directions: 40 roles added against 47 closed today (198 added over 7 days) — the largest single-day and weekly count of any company tracked, spanning Forward Deployed Engineer seats, a Principal SoC Design Engineer in Silicon Engineering, and specialist/sales roles scattered across Dublin, Espoo, Bucharest, Hyderabad, Sydney, Tallinn, and Tokyo.
Physical build-out continues at OpenAI and SpaceXAI: OpenAI posted a Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Systems, an Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead, and a Software Engineer, Compute Foundations (all under Scaling), while SpaceXAI added HVAC Technician, Plumber, and Production Coordination Supervisor roles for its Memphis-area data center.
Robotics shows up twice at Google DeepMind: a Research Scientist, Multisensor Robotics and a Software Engineer, Robotics, Infrastructure Quality and Productivity, both based in London, alongside security-adjacent research roles (Cyber Gemini, Serving Layer and Platform Security).
Anthropic's new roles skew toward European enterprise sales: Enterprise Account Executive, Public Sector, DACH and Applied AI Architect, Partnerships both landed in Munich, with a Marketing Events Manager, International in London.
ByteDance's Doubao/Seed unit posts the heaviest same-day closures in the dataset: 43 roles closed against just 4 added, even as new postings (an AIGC product manager, a large-model optimization engineer for audio/video) point toward continued productization.

Company moves

OpenAI added 7 roles (62 over 7 days, 7 closed today), continuing its physical infrastructure theme — Mechanical Engineer, Hardware Systems; Infrastructure Operations & Sustainability Lead; Software Engineer, Compute Foundations — alongside commercial hires like Applied AI Architect, Retail and Field Enablement Lead, Technical Success.

Anthropic added 10 roles (41 over 7 days, 6 closed), led by go-to-market and finance: Head of GTM Strategy, Ops & Analytics; Strategic Growth Account Executive; two Munich-based enterprise/partnership roles; Customer Success Manager positions in San Francisco and New York; plus Senior Manager, Regulatory Accounting & Disclosures and Operations Lead, Investor Relations.

Google DeepMind (谷歌 DeepMind) added 7 roles (31 over 7 days, 8 closed): two robotics postings, a Software Engineer, Model Inference, a Research Engineer for Cyber Gemini, a Senior Security Engineer on the serving layer, and a Senior Model UX Designer for GeminiApp — research, safety, and product moving together.

Microsoft AI (微软 AI) added 40 roles (198 over 7 days, 47 closed today) — by far the day's biggest mover in both directions. Additions mix core infrastructure (Principal SoC Design Engineer, Senior Forward Deployed Engineer x2, Principal Forward Deployed Engineer) with a wide international specialist push: AI Business Process Specialists in Vancouver, a Cloud & AI Specialist in Tokyo, Digital Solution Area Specialist in Dublin, and a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cambridge.

Meta AI added 2 roles (16 over 7 days, 5 closed): a Product Manager, Agent Transformation Accelerator and a Program Manager in AI Research — a small but agent-productization-flavored addition.

NVIDIA (英伟达) added 4 roles (36 over 7 days, 2 closed), including an AI Compiler Engineer (new grad) and a PhD Research Intern for Generalist Embodied Agents Research, keeping its embodied-AI research pipeline active.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML) added 2 roles (23 over 7 days, 7 closed): a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Answers, Knowledge & Information and a Senior Exercise Physiologist for Health AIML — closures outpaced adds today.

SpaceXAI added 7 roles (18 over 7 days, 2 closed), pairing Memphis-area data-center trades hires (HVAC Technician, Plumber, Production Coordination Supervisor) with an APAC sales cluster in Singapore — GCR Agency Development Manager, Senior Agency Development Manager, and Client Partner, Global Brands APAC.

Cohere added 2 roles (9 over 7 days, 4 closed): a Business Operations Lead and a Software Engineer, Security.

Scale AI added 2 roles (9 over 7 days, 3 closed), both Solutions Engineering Lead positions — one for Consumer, one for Healthcare & Life Sciences.

Cerebras added 1 role (6 over 7 days): a Staff Systems Technical Program Manager (Hardware) in Sunnyvale. Cursor and Together AI each closed one posting today with no new additions.

Baidu AI (百度 AI) added 3 roles (21 over 7 days, 7 closed): 产品经理 (product manager), 大模型算法工程师 (large-model algorithm engineer), and 导航交通算法工程师 (navigation/traffic algorithm engineer) — core LLM work alongside mapping-adjacent algorithm hiring.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) added 4 roles but closed 43 — the heaviest same-day closure count of any company in the dataset, against 21 added over 7 days. New postings include AIGC产品经理 - TikTok生活服务 (AIGC product manager, TikTok local services), AI大模型优化工程师 - 音视频技术 (large-model optimization engineer, audio/video technology), and AI教育产品经理 - 豆包爱学 (AI education product manager, Doubao's tutoring app).

Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元) added 2 roles (3 over 7 days): 混元-模型生产平台测试工程师 (Hunyuan model production platform test engineer) and 混元模型商业化运营负责人/专家 (Hunyuan model commercialization operations lead/expert) — testing infrastructure paired with a monetization leadership hire.

01.AI (Yi) (零一万物) added 2 roles (7 over 7 days, 1 closed): 前沿部署工程实习生 - 国际业务 (frontier deployment engineering intern, international business) and 大模型与智能体行业销售 (LLM and agent industry sales) — an international-deployment and agent-sales pairing.

The remaining fifteen companies tracked — Perplexity, Mistral AI, Lovable, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi), DeepSeek (深度求索), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), StepFun (阶跃星辰), ModelBest (面壁智能), Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫), MiniMax (Hailuo) (MiniMax 海螺), SenseTime SenseNova (商汤日日新), and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) — posted no new roles today, though StepFun (+18) and ModelBest (+9) both added meaningfully over the trailing seven days.

What it signals

Microsoft AI's scale dwarfs everyone else in this dataset: 198 roles added over seven days is more than three times OpenAI's 62 and nearly five times Anthropic's 41, and today's 40-added/47-closed split shows that volume comes with matching churn rather than pure net growth. The breadth of its additions — silicon design, forward-deployed engineering, and country-specific specialist roles from Finland to Japan — reads less like a single strategic pivot and more like simultaneous expansion across infrastructure and go-to-market functions at a scale none of the other labs are operating at.

Among the smaller global labs, the signal is more legible. OpenAI and SpaceXAI are both hiring for the physical layer — data-center trades, mechanical engineering, sustainability — rather than just research, and SpaceXAI's Singapore sales cluster suggests an APAC advertising push running in parallel with its data-center build. Anthropic's new roles cluster almost entirely around enterprise sales and finance, with two Munich hires suggesting a specific push into DACH public-sector and partnership coverage. Google DeepMind's pairing of robotics roles with cyber-security and platform-security postings is a reminder that its hiring spans both frontier research and defensive engineering in the same week.

The Chinese labs split sharply between active and dormant. ByteDance's Doubao/Seed unit shows the starkest pattern in the whole dataset: 43 closures in a single day against only 4 new postings, yet the new roles still point toward AIGC productization and audio/video model optimization — a lab pruning aggressively while still adding narrowly targeted product roles. Baidu, Tencent Hunyuan, and 01.AI are hiring in small, specific increments (mapping algorithms, model-platform testing, agent sales) rather than broad sweeps. Meanwhile DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, SenseTime SenseNova, Alibaba Tongyi Qwen, and Meituan LongCat show zero movement even over seven days — a reminder that "leading Chinese AI lab" does not imply active recruiting on any given week, and that hiring signal from this cohort is concentrated in a handful of names rather than spread evenly across all of them.