New AI Lab Job Postings: Week of May 15–21, 2026
28+ new and newly-indexed roles from Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google DeepMind, and Mistral AI posted May 15–21, 2026 — with salary bands, locations, remote types, deadlines, and apply links. Headlined by Google's 59-role FDE push and Anthropic's first Korea posting.
This week's batch spans five labs — Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Google DeepMind, and Mistral AI. Coverage dates are May 15–18, 2026 (publication day). Meta AI and Cohere are covered with known-active roles; no independently verifiable new postings for those labs surfaced with this week's indexing timestamps.
The headline signal: Forward Deployed Engineers have become the week's most-posted role type, with Google opening 59 FDE positions across 8 countries and OpenAI launching a $4 billion Deployment Company backed by 150+ engineers acquired from London-based Tomoro1. Anthropic added at least five net-new Greenhouse postings this week, including a technically demanding systems role on Claude Code and a Korea-based enterprise sales seat — the first Asia-Pacific opening observed for the lab.
Anthropic
AI safety and research company; developer of the Claude model family. San Francisco-based, ~700 employees as of early 2026 (source time not marked on Anthropic site). Raised at a reported $900B valuation in a round expected to close by end of May 20262.
Software Engineer, Systems — Claude Code
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Claude Code / Labs |
| Seniority | Senior / Staff (5+ yrs required) |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Remote type | Hybrid (≥25% in-office) |
| Salary | $320,000–$485,000 USD base |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5218395008 |
Low-level systems work on the Bun JavaScript runtime and Claude Code's agent execution loop. Core stack is C/C++, Rust, and Zig; the role expects deep Linux internals (io_uring, epoll, kqueue) and manual memory management experience. Outputs feed Claude Code Agent SDK and the broader Labs toolchain3.
Senior Staff Software Engineer — Claude Mobile (Consumer Products)
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Consumer Products |
| Seniority | Senior Staff |
| Location | San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Seattle, WA |
| Remote type | Hybrid (≥25% in-office) |
| Salary | $485,000–$625,000 USD base |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5204401008 |
Technical lead for Claude's iOS and Android chat experience. The role owns the full mobile architecture — rendering, text, streaming, performance budgets — and drives alignment across the growing Consumer Products org. iOS depth is preferred; cross-platform experience is a plus4.
GTM Strategy & Operations, Frontier
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | GTM Strategy & Operations |
| Seniority | Senior IC / Director-equivalent |
| Location | San Francisco, CA / New York, NY |
| Remote type | Hybrid (≥25% in-office) |
| Salary | $190,000–$270,000 USD base |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5218047008 |
Coordinates commercial model launches end-to-end, owns the field feedback loop, and serves as the primary cross-functional interface between GTM, Research, Product, and Compute. SQL fluency and experience at an API-first or consumption-based company are explicitly listed as preferred qualifications5.
Incident Response Manager, Enforcement
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Safeguards / Trust & Safety |
| Seniority | Senior Manager |
| Location | San Francisco, CA / New York, NY / Washington, DC |
| Remote type | Hybrid (≥25% in-office) |
| Salary | $310,000–$375,000 USD base |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5211184008 |
Owns Anthropic's Enforcement On-Call program: rotations, escalation paths, law enforcement referrals (NCMEC, etc.), and automation of triage pipelines. Requires availability for weekend on-call coverage6.
Enterprise Account Executive — Korea
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Sales |
| Seniority | Senior (8+ yrs enterprise sales) |
| Location | Seoul, South Korea |
| Remote type | Hybrid (≥25% in-office) |
| Salary | Competitive base + commission + equity (specifics not disclosed) |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5222914008 |
First Korea-based role observed for Anthropic. Owns full enterprise sales cycle across Korean financial services, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing sectors. Requires business-level Korean and English; Korean work authorization not explicitly stated7.
Enterprise Sales Manager — FSI
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Sales |
| Seniority | Manager |
| Location | Not listed in indexed snippet |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/5218948008 |
Leads a team of Enterprise Account Executives focused on financial services (FSI). Role covers strategic deal-making, team coaching, and adoption of Claude across the FSI vertical8.
OpenAI
AI research and deployment company; developer of GPT and o-series models. ~3,000+ employees globally. This week's notable move: launched a $4B Deployment Company (OpenAI Embedded), acquiring London firm Tomoro and its ~150 engineers1. Career pages do not display posting dates; roles below surfaced in Google's index within the past 7 days.
Program Manager, Safety
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Safety Systems |
| Seniority | Senior IC |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Remote type | Hybrid (3 days/week in-office) |
| Salary | $162,000–$240,000 USD base + equity |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | openai.com/careers/program-manager-safety-san-francisco |
Coordinates cross-functional safety launch readiness: risk tables, mitigation tracking, and incident management across model releases. Prefers a graduate degree in CS, engineering, or management; requires knowledge of content integrity and moderation regulations9.
Software Engineer, Post-Training Research
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Research / Post-Training |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed on listing (LinkedIn showed 2 days ago / 69 applicants as of publication) |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | openai.com/careers |
Research-embedded engineering role focused on post-training infrastructure and experiments. Surfaced via LinkedIn with a 2-days-ago timestamp10.
AI Deployment Engineer — Codex
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Codex Deployment Engineering |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior |
| Location | United States (remote eligible) |
| Remote type | Remote / Hybrid (varies by team) |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | openai.com/careers |
Helps enterprise customers adopt OpenAI's coding tools throughout the software development lifecycle. Acts as a trusted technical advisor — part deployment engineer, part solutions consultant11.
Staff / Senior Staff Backend Engineer — B2B Flywheel
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | B2B Engineering |
| Seniority | Staff / Senior Staff |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | openai.com/careers/staff-senior-staff-backend-engineer-b2b-flywheel-san-francisco |
Designs and builds real-time engineering systems across OpenAI's high-scale API and B2B surfaces. Works closely with data science and product teams12.
Data Scientist, Safety
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Safety |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior |
| Location | San Francisco, CA |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | openai.com/careers/data-scientist-safety-san-francisco |
Builds analytical foundations for responsible AI deployment. High-impact cross-functional role working with safety and integrity teams.
xAI
Elon Musk's AI company, builder of the Grok model family. Operates the Colossus supercomputer cluster in Memphis, TN. Primarily onsite (Palo Alto / San Francisco for research; Memphis for data center). ATS: Greenhouse. Salary rarely disclosed on listings.
xAI's open-roles page lists 100+ positions. The roles below are those most relevant to AI researchers, engineers, and technical professionals.
Member of Technical Staff, World Model (new)
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Research |
| Seniority | Staff-equivalent |
| Location | Palo Alto, CA / Seattle, WA |
| Remote type | Onsite |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4983662007 |
This job ID (4983662007) is the highest-numbered xAI world-model posting found — numeric proximity to other recently indexed roles (4977435007, 4997616007) suggests it opened within the past few weeks13.
Member of Technical Staff, JAX & Compiler
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Research / Infrastructure |
| Seniority | Staff |
| Location | Palo Alto, CA / San Francisco, CA |
| Remote type | Onsite |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4863980007 |
Software Engineer, Applied Inference
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Research / Infrastructure |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior |
| Location | Palo Alto, CA / San Francisco, CA |
| Remote type | Onsite |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/4682428007 |
Finance Platform Engineer (likely new)
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Finance / Engineering |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior |
| Location | Palo Alto, CA |
| Remote type | Onsite |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5004385007 |
Highest job ID among all xAI listings currently indexed (5004385007), suggesting it is one of the most recently opened roles13.
Human Data roles — remote, global
xAI operates a large Human Data division with 50+ fully remote tutor / specialist roles: AI Finance Tutors (corporate accounting, quantitative finance, sell-side, portfolio management, financial analyst), AI Economics Tutor, AI Legal & Compliance Tutor, Biology/Chemistry/Physics/Mathematics Tutors, Backend Engineering Specialist, Frontend Engineering Specialist, RL Environments Specialist, and more. All open as of publication; compensation not disclosed on listings.
Browse the full list: x.ai/careers/open-roles
Google DeepMind
Google's flagship AI research division, based in London and Mountain View/New York. Part of Alphabet; part of Google's broader career infrastructure at careers.google.com. Application windows disclosed on most Google Career listings.
Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Applied AI — Google Cloud (batch of 59 new)
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Google Cloud / Applied AI |
| Seniority | FDE IV (senior) |
| Location | US, India, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, Singapore, South Korea, Canada |
| Remote type | Hybrid (varies by country) |
| Salary (US base, excl. bonus & equity) | $183,000–$265,000 USD |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | careers.google.com/jobs/results/87626702263329478 |
Google opened 59 FDE positions this week across 8 countries — the largest single-week FDE push yet observed for any AI lab1. The FDE IV role requires multi-agent system experience, RAG architecture, vector databases, and production-grade AI deployment on cloud platforms. Applied-level (junior) FDEs are also open at $127,000–$183,000 base.
Research Scientist, Generative AI — DeepMind
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | DeepMind Research |
| Seniority | Research Scientist |
| Location | Not specified (likely Mountain View, CA or London) |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | careers.google.com — DeepMind Generative AI RS |
PhD required in CS or related field. Specific experience in diffusion models required; publication record at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or KDD expected. The role designs and deploys generative models using distillation to solve high-complexity challenges14.
Research Engineer, World Models — DeepMind
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | DeepMind Research |
| Seniority | Research Engineer |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | linkedin.com — Research Engineer, World Models, DeepMind |
Builds core infrastructure for generative model research. Research-focused engineering embedded directly in DeepMind15.
Senior Technical Program Manager, Workspace Editors, Gen AI
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Google Workspace / Gen AI |
| Seniority | Senior TPM |
| Location | Not specified |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Application window open until at least May 27, 2026 |
| Apply | careers.google.com/jobs/results/142886206760198854 |
Program management for generative AI features across Google Workspace editors. Application window closes May 27 at the earliest16.
Mistral AI
Paris-based open-weight LLM company. ATS: Lever. Roles indexed on Lever this week include two engineering openings; salary rarely disclosed.
Applied AI Technical Lead — Forward Deployed AI Engineer (Abu Dhabi)
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Applied AI |
| Seniority | Technical Lead |
| Location | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| Remote type | Onsite |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | jobs.lever.co/mistral/cb2986cc-4768-40b9-9d67-e53d78b247dc |
Drives technical strategy and delivery of AI solutions for enterprise customers in the Gulf region. Cross-functional role interfacing with Mistral's research and product teams17.
Site Reliability Engineer — New York
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Infrastructure |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior SRE |
| Location | New York, NY |
| Remote type | Hybrid |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | jobs.lever.co/mistral/b320e972-3ed8-4d02-acb1-37950812cdbc |
Works alongside Mistral's software engineers and research teams to ensure system reliability meets internal and external expectations18.
Applied Scientist / Research Engineer — EMEA
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Research / Applied Science |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior (PhD/MSc preferred, not required) |
| Location | London / Paris |
| Remote type | Permanent contract, in-office |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | welcometothejungle.com — Applied Scientist / Research Engineer, Mistral AI EMEA |
Broad research mandate: pre-training and post-training runs at scale, data generation, evaluation, and RAG/agent pipelines for enterprise clients. Requires fluency in English; French not required per listing19.
Meta AI (FAIR / MSL)
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab and Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) — the teams behind Llama and frontier research. Meta Careers (metacareers.com) is SPA-blocked; roles below come from LinkedIn and aggregators. No independently verifiable new postings with this-week index timestamps surfaced; these roles are known-active as of publication.
Research Engineer, Text Data Research — MSL FAIR
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) / FAIR |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior |
| Location | Not specified (likely Menlo Park, CA or NYC) |
| Remote type | Not specified |
| Salary | Not disclosed (bonus + equity confirmed) |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | metacareers.com |
Builds data curation systems for Llama and frontier LLMs across pre-training, mid-training, and post-training. Requires 1+ year of industry research in LLM/NLP and a publication record at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, or EMNLP20.
Research Program Manager, Academic Relations — FAIR
| Field | Detail |
|---|---|
| Department | FAIR |
| Seniority | Mid–Senior PM |
| Location | Not specified |
| Remote type | Not specified |
| Salary | Not disclosed |
| Deadline | Not disclosed |
| Apply | metacareers.com/profile/job_details/1507599440759522 |
Manages academic partnerships and relations for Meta's Fundamental AI Research team21.
Coverage notes
Labs not covered this week:
- Cohere — Ashby listings found (ML Intern/Co-op Fall 2026, HR Business Partner) but no independent date signals confirming new postings within the May 15–21 window. They will be re-checked next week.
- xAI — no salary data is disclosed on any xAI listing; compensation is listed as "competitive cash and equity."
- OpenAI, Google DeepMind — career pages do not surface posting dates; roles above are those most recently indexed by Google's crawler.
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