AI Hiring Brief · 2026-11-02
32 frontier AI labs · 1 roles added in 24h · agihunt.info/en/jobs
Today at a glance
- A quiet day for new roles: Across the 32 companies tracked, only 1 role was added in 24 hours, and it came from Apple AIML. 15 roles closed.
- Apple AIML opened a physics-flavored research seat: The one new role is "Deep Learning Research Engineer - ML & Physics - Q" in Machine Learning and AI, listed for Herzliya. The title pairs machine learning with physics, though the data says nothing more about the work.
- ByteDance had the most closures: ByteDance Doubao/Seed (字节跳动豆包/Seed) closed 6 roles and added none. It still has the largest open count in the data at 849.
- The 7-day view is more active than the 1-day view: OpenAI added 63 roles over 7 days, Meta AI 53, Anthropic 36 and NVIDIA 36. Most of that happened before today.
Company moves
Apple AIML (苹果 AIML) was the only company with an addition. It added 1 role, "Deep Learning Research Engineer - ML & Physics - Q" (Machine Learning and AI; Herzliya), and closed 1, leaving 301 open. Net headcount demand is flat, so this reads as a targeted research hire rather than an expansion.
ByteDance Doubao/Seed closed 6 roles with no additions, leaving 849 open. That is the largest single-day closure in the data. With 7 additions over the past week, the net direction is slightly down for now.
Anthropic, NVIDIA and Cohere each closed 2 roles with no additions. That leaves Anthropic at 673 open, NVIDIA at 554 and Cohere at 120.
OpenAI and Cursor each closed 1 role with no additions, leaving them at 810 and 124 open.
The other 23 companies showed no change in the 24-hour window. No new role titles appeared outside Apple.
What it signals
Today's daily numbers say little, so the 7-day figures matter more. Over the past week the 19 global companies in the data added 297 roles and the 13 China-based companies added 67. The global total is concentrated in a few names. OpenAI (63), Meta AI (53), Anthropic (36), NVIDIA (36), Google DeepMind (28) and Apple AIML (21) account for 237 of the 297. Their open counts are large already, with OpenAI at 810, Anthropic at 673 and NVIDIA at 554. So these labs are still growing from a big base. Google DeepMind stands out on a smaller base: 28 additions against 140 open roles is a notable pace for its size.
Several companies added nothing over the week. Microsoft AI has 622 roles open and no additions in 7 days. Mistral AI has 168 open and no additions either. That points to stable or stalled requisitions, not a closing of the pipeline, since neither showed closures today. Aleph Alpha (4 open) and Genmo (5 open) are small enough that a flat week tells us little.
The China-based labs show a different pattern. Additions are concentrated in StepFun (阶跃星辰) with 27, Baidu AI (百度 AI) with 13 and ModelBest (面壁智能) with 10. StepFun's 27 additions against 322 open roles is the standout. Moonshot AI (月之暗面 Kimi), Zhipu AI (智谱 AI), Meituan LongCat (美团·龙猫) and Alibaba Tongyi Qwen (阿里通义千问) added nothing in 7 days. Their open counts were 104, 237, 68 and 28 respectively. DeepSeek (深度求索) added 1 and has 34 open. The pace among Chinese labs is uneven. A few are hiring actively, while several others are holding steady.
These are one week of counts and one day of changes, so they say nothing about trend. A single quiet Sunday-to-Monday window can follow a heavy week, and the one visible hire at Apple is too small to read as a strategy. The sustained signals will come from whether the large 7-day adders keep posting next week, and whether the flat-week companies start posting again.