AI Hiring Brief · 2026-10-28

32 frontier AI labs · 101 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs

Today at a glance

Silicon and physical build-out: OpenAI listed "Technical Program Manager, Lab Infrastructure (Silicon & Systems)" and "Project Manager, Design and Construction - R&D/Lab Buildouts". Meta AI posted "Silicon Packaging Engineer" in Sunnyvale and Austin, and Google DeepMind posted "Senior Research Engineer, AI Assisted Chip Design, DeepMind". SpaceXAI's new roles are data-center operations jobs in Memphis, including "Manager, Operation & Maintenance (Power Plant) - Memphis".
Robotics and physical engineering: OpenAI added "Founding Software Engineer, Physical Engineering" in Applied AI. Google DeepMind added "Research Scientist, Robotics Data, Pretraining". Meta AI listed "Product Design Engineering Intern — AI Glasses". NVIDIA's "Social Media Specialist, Physical AI" is a marketing role, but it shows where the company is putting its messaging.
Agents, on both the build and security sides: Google DeepMind posted "Senior Security Engineer, Agentic Red Team, DeepMind". Apple AIML listed "Agentic Systems Engineer, Proactive Intelligence — Automation & LLM Orchestration". Perplexity listed "Engineering Manager (Agent Engine)" and Scale AI listed "Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise". StepFun (阶跃星辰) posted "Agent数据专家" (agent data specialist) and "Agent 搭建与数据工程" (agent building and data engineering).
Enterprise sales expansion: Anthropic's four new roles include three in sales, all vertical or regional. They are "Manager, Enterprise Sales - Pharma", "Manager, Enterprise Sales - Asset & Wealth Management", and "Enterprise Account Executive, Retail" in Paris. OpenAI added two "Value Engineer" roles, in New York City and San Francisco.
Flat overall, with one large China batch: The 32 companies tracked added 101 roles and closed 98. StepFun accounts for 24 of the additions, and ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) closed 22.

Company moves

OpenAI added 13 and closed 10. The new roles fall into three groups:

Infrastructure and construction: the silicon TPM role, "Site Civil, Structural & Architectural Lead (CSLA)", and "Product Cost Management Lead - AI Infrastructure".
Go-to-market and policy: the two Value Engineers, plus "UK Head of Strategic Engagement & Partnerships" in London.
Corporate functions: "Tax Director, Tax Counsel" and "Counsel, Employment".

There is also "Program Manager, Critical Harm Operations" in User Operations, which suggests continued investment in safety operations.

Anthropic added 4 and closed 8. Three of the four additions are vertical or regional enterprise sales, and the fourth is "Security Data Engineer". The pattern is sales-led, with a security hire alongside it.

Google DeepMind added 5 and closed 2. The additions cover agent security, chip design, robotics pretraining data, and "Research Scientist, SAMBA, DeepMind" in New York. The fifth, "Game Designer, Inception, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)" in London, is an unusual title for a research lab.

Meta AI added 17 and closed 13. Thirteen of the 17 additions are internships, almost all PhD research scientist internships. Topics include video intelligence, video generation self-improvement, efficient world foundation models, speech and audio, and "Research Scientist Intern, Youth Safety (PhD)". The four non-internship roles are infrastructure and hardware: "Supply Chain Capacity Engineer", "Manager, Network Deployment & Support", "Silicon Packaging Engineer" and a computer vision research scientist role in Burlingame.

NVIDIA (英伟达) added 7 and closed 15. The additions are mostly engineering and business roles, including "Senior Software Engineer - DGX Cloud", "Senior Research Scientist - AI Security" and "HPE Business Development Manager". It closed more than it opened today.

Apple AIML (苹果 AIML) added 6 and closed 3. Two roles are tied to Apple Ads: "Applied AI Engineer, Apple Ads" and "Senior Software Engineer (Ads Platform) - Experimentation". The others cover agentic automation, speech-to-speech translation research in Cambridge, and answers and knowledge work.

SpaceXAI added 4 and closed 4. Two additions are Memphis data-center roles (materials management and power plant operations). The others are "Senior Product Manager, Commerce Platform" and "Client Partner, Digital Native & E-commerce" in Singapore.

StepFun (阶跃星辰) added 24 and closed none. Most roles are in Shanghai's Xuhui district. They fall into four groups:

Data work: "多模态数据专家" (multimodal data expert), "语音交互数据专家" (voice-interaction data expert) and "声音工程与语音质量专家" (sound engineering and voice quality expert).
Commercialization: "AI 商业化产品经理（计费账本／成本优化／风控）" (billing ledger, cost optimization, risk control) and "AI 商业化策略产品经理".
Platform and coding: "MP 架构师（模型服务平台）" (model serving platform architect) and "StepCode （AI Coding）全栈开发工程师".
Hardware and supply chain: "供应主计划工程师" (supply master-planning engineer), "订单履约" (order fulfillment) and "ID设计师" (industrial designer).

ModelBest (面壁智能) added 5 and closed 1. Roles include "端侧大模型产品经理" (on-device LLM product manager), "算法/解决方案工程师(具身方向)" (embodied direction) and "FDE工程师(智能硬件与AgentOS方向)".

Baidu AI (百度 AI) added 4 and closed 3. Two are enterprise sales and solutions roles in ACG ("大客户解决方案架构师（J106689）", "客户销售经理（J106903）"), and two are algorithm roles in IDG and MEG.

ByteDance Doubao/Seed added 1 and closed 22. The addition is "豆包大模型解决方案专家（手机厂商） - 火山方舟" (Doubao solutions expert for phone makers, on Volcano Ark).

Smaller moves:

Perplexity: the agent engineering manager role above.
Lovable: "Forward Deployed Engineering Lead" in London plus a contract recruiting role.
Together AI: an AI inference reliability engineer role plus a recruiter.
Cerebras: "Senior Software Engineer, ML API – AI Inference".
Pika Labs: "Creator and Influencer Partnerships Manager".
Tencent Hunyuan (腾讯混元): "微信支付-大模型 AI Infra 研发工程师" (WeChat Pay LLM AI infra engineer).
MiniMax (MiniMax 海螺): "10x Team Researcher", listed across Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, San Francisco and London.
01.AI (零一万物): "AI效能研发实习生" (AI efficiency R&D intern).

Microsoft AI, Mistral AI, Cohere, Cursor, Aleph Alpha, Genmo, Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi), 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) had no new roles today. Cursor and Cohere closed 3 and 1 roles respectively.

What it signals

The 7-day figures show a field whose hiring is concentrated in a few places. Meta AI leads with 84 additions, then OpenAI with 50, Anthropic with 44, Apple AIML with 34 and Google DeepMind with 32. NVIDIA added 28 and SpaceXAI 24. Microsoft AI and Mistral AI show 0 additions over the week, and Aleph Alpha and Genmo are also at 0 on very small boards. Most of the other global labs are in single or low double digits, so the heavy hiring is concentrated in about seven names.

The mix of roles at the largest hirers is shifting toward physical capacity. OpenAI's lab buildout, civil engineering and silicon program roles, Meta AI's packaging and network deployment roles, and SpaceXAI's Memphis power and materials roles all concern the physical layer. This is one day's sample, but the same kind of role appears at several labs. The contrast is Anthropic, whose additions today are sales and security, and which has no visible hardware hiring in this sample.

Chinese labs show a different pace. StepFun's 24 additions today account for nearly all of its 26 over seven days, so that is one batch. The roles are product, data operations, supply chain and design, with relatively few pure research titles, which reads as a push toward commercialization and hardware products. ModelBest's roles also lean toward devices and embodied work. Apart from those two, the Chinese labs are quiet: Baidu AI added 10 over seven days, ByteDance Doubao/Seed 10, MiniMax 10, Moonshot AI 1 and Tencent Hunyuan 1. DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Meituan LongCat, SenseTime SenseNova and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen added none. ByteDance's open count is still the highest in the set at 855 after 22 closures, so the closures alone do not show a pullback.

Net movement is nearly flat: 101 added against 98 closed. Meta AI's internship-heavy batch and NVIDIA's 15 closures against 7 additions show how much of the daily churn is rotation of existing postings, not growth. One day cannot establish a trend, and the 7-day totals are the better guide.