New AI Lab Job Postings: Week of May 8–14, 2026

OpenAI

Codex & B2B Applications

• AI Systems Engineer, Codex Agents — Builds the core agent harness and execution loop for Codex: sandboxing, tool orchestration, and observability across the agent stack. Requires production Rust, Python, and hands-on LLM/agent experience.
• Senior Staff Backend SWE, Codex for Finance — Owns end-to-end development of new platform capabilities in the team building Codex tools for financial workflows. Python, Go, or Rust; 7+ years.
• Staff / Senior Staff Product Engineer, Full Stack — Full-stack (TypeScript/React front end, Python/Go/Rust back end) for the same Codex for Finance team. 7+ years; relational DB experience (Postgres/MySQL) required.
• Staff / Senior Staff Backend Engineer, B2B Flywheel — Builds real-time data pipelines that capture product-usage and customer signals across B2B and API surfaces. Sits at the intersection of backend engineering, data science, and ML workflows.

Safety & Alignment

• Model Policy — Designs and maintains model policies across safety-relevant domains (dual-use, agentic systems, emerging frontier risks). Converts risk models into behavioral specifications and evaluation criteria. Hybrid, SF.
• Program Manager, Safety — Coordinates cross-functional safety launch readiness across Safety Systems, Integrity, Strategy, User Operations, and engineering. Graduate degree in CS, engineering, or management preferred.
• Researcher, Alignment Oversight — Designs alignment experiments for agentic AI, deploys action-monitoring and human-in-the-loop control systems, and develops evaluations for alignment failure modes (overeagerness, covert actions, scheming). Strong RL/post-training background required.
• Researcher, Recursive Self-Improvement Preparedness — Prepares for recursive self-improvement scenarios: AI R&D risk measurement, data-poisoning mitigations, model transparency, and verification protocols. No specific prior work required, but prior ML research or AI alignment work is a plus. No salary disclosure note: salary listed does not include equity.
• Protection Scientist Engineer, Integrity — Prototypes and matures abuse-detection and enforcement systems. Cross-disciplinary: data science, ML, and investigative skills. 4+ years; most remote-friendly of the safety cluster (4 US locations).

Technical Customer Success & International

Compute & Infrastructure

• Head of Measurement & Performance Intelligence — Builds and leads a new function defining platform performance metrics, benchmarking methodology, and acceptance criteria for OpenAI's compute platforms. The highest-salaried OpenAI listing this week ($390K–$460K). Requires deep background in distributed systems, AI/ML infrastructure, or HPC.
• Software Engineer, Hardware Health — Defines and maintains health signals across GPUs, CPUs, and networking; builds detection, remediation, and verification automation at global cluster scale. SQL, PromQL, Python required.
• Software Engineer, Productivity — Inference Runtime — Improves CI/CD and release validation infrastructure for the inference engine. Python-heavy; CI/CD and testing infrastructure experience required.

Data Science

• Data Scientist, Core Experimentation (Staff) — Drives statistical direction for OpenAI's experimentation platform; improves experiment reliability via SRM detection, bias mitigation, and variance reduction. Requires experience building experimentation platforms at large tech companies; CUPED, sequential testing, Python, Spark.
• People Data Scientist — Designs research for organizational health and manager effectiveness; conducts fairness and adverse impact analyses for People processes. PhD preferred in I-O Psychology, Quantitative Psychology, or similar.

Go-to-Market & Marketing

• Strategic Finance, Product — Strategic finance partner to ChatGPT Business product teams; owns forecasting for self-serve revenue, usage, and unit economics. 8+ years investment banking, consulting, or product finance; SQL required.
• Account Director, Digital Natives Growth — Manages a portfolio of digital-native customer accounts from initial engagement through expansion; owns a revenue target. 9+ years SaaS/PaaS sales.
• Market Research Lead — Designs and runs mixed-methods research to shape GTM strategy for technical products. 10+ years; both quantitative and qualitative research background; B2B/developer audience experience preferred.

Operations

• Trust & Safety Operations Analyst, Ads (London) — Designs and scales operational workflows for Ads Trust & Safety: enforcement models, review processes, and escalation paths. 8+ years in Monetization/Ads Policy Operations or Trust & Safety. The only London-based OpenAI role this week.
• Travel Operations Lead (SF) — Builds and runs executive and employee travel operations, including Navan (travel management company) management and AI-enabled workflow development. 7+ years in travel, executive operations, or finance operations.

Anthropic

Infrastructure & Compute

• The Data Center OFE Strategic Sourcing Lead role carries an unusually wide salary range ($365K–$1,245K). 30 This likely reflects variable equity structures or total compensation components — candidates should confirm the base-versus-equity split directly with Anthropic's recruiting team.
• The Staff Fiber Network Engineer role is listed as remote — rare for Anthropic, which generally requires at least 25% office time. 28 The role owns design and procurement for terrestrial fiber routes on Anternet, Anthropic's private global dark-fiber backbone.
• All three Sydney roles are on-site and require Australian work authorization; Anthropic has not disclosed salary bands for any of them. 31 33

Engineering & Product

• Technical Program Manager, Discovery — Owns compute planning, RL environment health, and vendor pipelines for the Discovery team, which is building toward an AI scientist capable of advancing the scientific frontier. Requires prior ML engineering or ML research background before moving to TPM.
• Senior Staff Software Engineer ($485K–$625K) — Technical lead for Claude's core chat experience on iOS and Android. Owns technical strategy for the chat interface, works with Claude Code and Cowork teams. Deep iOS or Android internals expertise required; iOS preferred. The highest-salaried Anthropic listing this week. 35
• Software Engineer, Systems — Claude Code — Low-level systems work inside Bun and Claude Code: runtime internals, I/O, memory management, latency optimization. C/C++ and Rust required; Zig also accepted.

Trust, Safety & Policy

• Public Policy, Strategic Advisory — Owns Anthropic's highest-priority policy positions and drives consensus on contested technical policy issues across federal, state, and international teams. Requires experience translating technical material for non-expert decision-makers.
• Incident Response Manager, Enforcement — Runs Anthropic's enforcement on-call program, builds runbooks and SOPs, and manages sensitive cross-functional escalations (Policy, Legal, Safeguards, Comms). On-call and weekend coverage required.
• [Pipeline] Software Engineer, Safeguards Labs (NYC) — Takes safety research prototypes and hardens them into production-grade Claude safeguards. "Pipeline" in the title indicates a future-hire or candidate pool role; confirm active status with the recruiter. Python; track record of prototype-to-production required.

Sales, GTM & Business

• Amazon GTM Partnership, Startups — Drives Anthropic's startup go-to-market through the Amazon/AWS partnership: pipeline development, executive relationship management, joint marketing. 25% travel required. Salary is stated as on-target earnings (OTE).
• Manager, Strategic Sales — Leads a team of Strategic Account Executives selling into Telco, Media, and Retail enterprises; closing 7-figure deals. 15+ total years in software/platform sales, 7+ in leadership. OTE.
• GTM Strategy & Operations, Frontier — Acts as GTM DRI (directly responsible individual) for Claude model launches: synthesizing customer adoption signals, running the field-response feedback loop, and carrying executive reporting cadences.

People & Operations

• Lead, Talent Development & Enablement — Designs and ships manager and leadership development programs, with a focus on Claude-enabled learning. Anthropic's first dedicated Talent Development hire; reports to People leadership.
• Real Estate Program Coordinator — Handles tactical execution behind every new Anthropic office: wire transfers, Letters of Credit, PO setup, broker triage. Manages a rapidly expanding global real estate portfolio. $185K flat (no stated range).

Google DeepMind

• Director, Engineering, Create — Leads engineering for the Gemini App's Create area (visual media generation, generative music, content input). Requires 15 years of software engineering experience and 7 years managing engineering managers. The highest-salaried DeepMind listing this week ($307K–$427K). 46
• Research Scientist, Generative AI (London, confirmed May 13) — Research role requiring a PhD, experience with diffusion models, and publications at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD, or AAAI. JAX, TensorFlow, or PyTorch.
• Legal Counsel, DeepMind (London/Mountain View, confirmed May 11) — JD or LL.B., 3+ years attorney-level experience, government partnership negotiation. Bar admission required.
• Research Scientist, Robotics, Embodied AI — PhD in CS; experience training embodied reasoning vision-language models (VLMs) with simulators and real-world robots; publications at NeurIPS, CoRL, ICML, or ICLR.
• Student Researcher, 2026 — Open to Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD students across all Google research teams including DeepMind, Google Research, and Google Cloud. Multiple global locations.

Meta AI

• All five roles are on-site (no remote option listed). Locations are US only: Bellevue, New York, Menlo Park, and Sunnyvale. 50
• The MSL FAIR Text Data Research Scientist role focuses on pre-training, mid-training, and post-training data curation at trillion-scale for Llama frontier models. PhD in CS or related field required, plus 2+ years of industry research and publications at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, or EMNLP. 50
• The Monetization AI CoreML roles constitute the majority of Meta AI's new postings this week — building large-scale ranking and recommendation models for personalized advertising. LLM-based ranking, AutoML, RLHF, and causal learning are key technical areas. The $122K–$181K band likely reflects entry-level or location-adjusted variants; confirm the applicable band when applying.
• The Multimodal Monetization GenAI role (Tech Lead, New York, $219K–$301K) targets video generation, video-to-video editing, audio generation, and multimodal video understanding with LLMs — requiring a PhD, publication record, and experience leading AI research teams.
• The AI Research Engineer (Applied GenAI, Menlo Park/Bellevue) is more engineering-adjacent: post-training pipelines (SFT, supervised fine-tuning; RLHF, reinforcement learning from human feedback), RAG (retrieval-augmented generation), multi-agent orchestration. A Bachelor's in CS/CE plus technical lead experience; PhD not required.

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