AI Hiring Brief · 2026-10-03

32 frontier AI labs · 44 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

OpenAI prunes harder than it hires: OpenAI added 8 roles today but closed 17 — the heaviest closure count in the data — even as its 7-day net (+53) remains the largest of any lab tracked.
Robotics and silicon cluster at Meta and NVIDIA: Meta AI posted Silicon Engineer, Infrastructure Validation, Mechanical Engineering Intern, Infrastructure, and Research Scientist Intern, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs (PhD) in one day, while NVIDIA (英伟达) added a PhD Research Intern, Embodied and Agentic AI - 2027 — hardware and physical-AI hiring showing up at two labs simultaneously.
International sales is the week's quietest-loudest signal: Anthropic's Partner Account Manager - DACH (Munich), Cohere's two DACH Solutions Architect roles plus a Berlin Partner Development Manager and UK Senior Account Executive, Cursor's two Australia account-executive roles, and OpenAI's Forward Deployed Engineer - Singapore (Korean Speaking) all landed the same day — five labs expanding non-US go-to-market teams at once.
ByteDance Doubao/Seed closes 26 roles with zero replacements: ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) closed 26 postings today against none added — the single largest pruning event in the dataset, even though its 7-day net is still slightly positive (+4).
NVIDIA runs exactly even: NVIDIA added and closed 7 roles apiece today, a one-for-one churn pattern distinct from OpenAI's and ByteDance's net pruning.

Company moves

OpenAI (829 open, +8/-17 today, +53 over 7 days) leaned toward pruning today despite strong weekly growth; new roles include Technical Program Manager, Robotics and the Singapore-based Forward Deployed Engineer (Korean Speaking), pairing robotics with international deployment.

Anthropic (638 open, +6/-7, +49/7d) added Staff Research Engineer, Multi-Agent Scaling alongside a DACH partner-account role in Munich and a Channel Partner Manager, Public Sector in Washington, DC — multi-agent research work paired with international and government go-to-market.

Meta AI (206 open, +5/-4, +33/7d) posted its hardware cluster (Silicon Engineer, Infrastructure Validation; Mechanical Engineering Intern, Infrastructure; Research Scientist Intern, Robotics - Meta Superintelligence Labs (PhD)) plus an AI Research Scientist seat in Paris.

NVIDIA (英伟达) (546 open, +7/-7, +25/7d) churned evenly; new postings include a PhD Research Intern, Embodied and Agentic AI - 2027 and AI Developer Technology Engineer, alongside a Senior DFT Methodology Engineer continuing the recurring silicon-validation thread.

Apple AIML (苹果AIML) (297 open, +1/-2, +17/7d) added a single role, AIML - Sr Software Engineer - AI, Evaluation.

SpaceXAI (299 open, +5/-3, +20/7d) added Spring/Summer 2027 internships in Business Operations and Software Engineering plus a Power Generation Technician for its Data Center group — campus recruiting alongside compute/power buildout.

Perplexity (124 open, +0/-1, +5/7d) closed one role with no replacement.

Cursor (131 open, +2/-2, +11/7d) added two Australia roles: Strategic Account Executive, Enterprise - Victoria and Strategic Account Executive, Federal Sales - Australia.

Lovable (77 open, +1/-1, +3/7d) added Software Engineer, Growth (Marketing) in London.

Cohere (136 open, +4/-0, +5/7d) added four roles, all in Revenue: two DACH Solutions Architect postings, a Berlin Partner Development Manager, and a UK Senior Account Executive — concentrated European sales expansion with no closures today.

Together AI (77 open, +0/-1, +1/7d) closed one role.

Scale AI (192 open, +4/-4, +7/7d) balanced additions and closures; new roles span Gen AI Operations, GTM, Marketing, and a Senior Software Engineer, Orchestration Platform.

Cerebras (116 open, +1/-0, +7/7d) added AI Fleet Platform Software Engineer (Sunnyvale/Toronto).

ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) (867 open, +0/-26, +4/7d) saw the day's heaviest pruning — 26 closures, zero additions.

Baidu AI (百度AI) (473 open, +0/-2, +2/7d) closed two roles today against two added over the week.

Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫) (68 open, +0/-1, +0/7d) closed one role with no weekly additions.

All other tracked labs were unchanged today: Google DeepMind (谷歌DeepMind, +31/7d with no new postings), Microsoft AI, Mistral AI, Pika Labs, Aleph Alpha, and Genmo among the global group, and Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, StepFun (阶跃星辰, +4/7d), ModelBest (面壁智能, +1/7d), Tencent Hunyuan, MiniMax (Hailuo) (+2/7d), 01.AI, and SenseTime SenseNova among the China-based group.

What it signals

The gap between global and Chinese labs' hiring tempo is stark this week. OpenAI (+53/7d), Anthropic (+49/7d), Meta AI (+33/7d), and Google DeepMind (+31/7d) are each adding more roles in seven days than nearly all 13 tracked Chinese labs combined — the largest single Chinese mover, ByteDance Doubao/Seed, shows only +4/7d, and most of the group (Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Tencent Hunyuan, 01.AI, SenseTime SenseNova, Alibaba Tongyi Qwen) posted zero net change over the full week. That doesn't necessarily mean less activity inside these companies — job-board churn is one proxy among many — but on this metric, the pace gap between the US-based frontier labs and China's leading model builders has widened rather than narrowed.

Within the fast-moving group, pruning is now as visible as growth. OpenAI's 17 closures today against 8 additions, and ByteDance Doubao/Seed's 26 closures against zero additions, both show large labs actively trimming open requisitions even while headline weekly counts stay positive. NVIDIA's perfectly even 7-for-7 today reads less like growth and more like turnover — roles being refreshed or re-scoped rather than headcount expanding net-new. Together with Perplexity's and Together AI's single closures, this suggests a broader pattern of job-board housekeeping running in parallel with genuine expansion, not a slowdown.

The substantive hiring that is happening clusters around two themes: physical AI and international go-to-market. Meta AI and NVIDIA both posted robotics- or embodiment-adjacent research roles the same day, continuing a hardware thread that has recurred across multiple days in this tracker (silicon validation, mechanical engineering, embodied/agentic research internships). Simultaneously, five labs — Anthropic, Cohere, Cursor, OpenAI, and indirectly Meta via its Paris research seat — added international sales, partner, or forward-deployed roles in Germany, the UK, Australia, Singapore, and Washington DC. Taken together, the labs with the fastest headcount growth are visibly building both the physical-AI research base and the enterprise/public-sector commercial layer at the same time, while most Chinese labs' public job boards stayed essentially static this week.