New AI Lab Job Postings: Week of May 15–21, 2026

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.