AI Hiring Index, week of 2026-09-10
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Genesis AI is hiring at 9x its usual pace (16 roles in 7 days). 936 new roles were posted in the last 7 days across 254 AI companies.
35 leadership openings, 4 new-region expansions, 17 companies opened a new function.
Accelerating
- Shield AI: 74 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 23.0 (484 open)
- Harvey: 40 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 26.5 (326 open)
- Graphcore: 23 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 7.2 (184 open)
- Zoox: 19 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 10.8 (244 open)
- Genesis AI: 16 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 1.8 (65 open)
- LangChain: 16 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 8.5 (107 open)
- Scale AI: 16 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 8.0 (218 open)
- Cerebras: 11 new roles vs a prior weekly average of 5.5 (110 open)
Shareable: the fastest-hiring AI companies this week and this week's leadership openings.
Slowing
- ElevenLabs: 9 new vs 22.0 average
- xAI: 9 new vs 25.5 average
- SambaNova: 3 new vs 8.0 average
- Clay: 2 new vs 5.2 average
- Factory: 2 new vs 4.0 average
Salary index
8,304 open roles list a base-salary range. Median posted range for research roles: $200k to $325k; engineering: $182k to $260k. Full tables: https://aihiringindex.com/salaries?utm_source=newsletter; one page per company and per role: https://aihiringindex.com/salary/?utm_source=newsletter
Skills in demand
Named most often in this week's open descriptions: Python (27.8%), LLMs (15.6%), Agents (13.8%), AWS (11.1%), Kubernetes (10.3%), Robotics (9.8%). By function and company: https://aihiringindex.com/skills?utm_source=newsletter; one page per skill with the companies asking for it: https://aihiringindex.com/skill/?utm_source=newsletter
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Leadership openings
- Decagon: Director of Solutions Engineering, Enterprise East, New York City, $320k–400k
- Legora: Head of Legal Engineering, Italy, Milan, €118k–169k
- Wayve: Vice President, AI Data, London, United Kingdom
- Scale AI: Director of Product Management, Enterprise Core Platform, San Francisco, CA; New York, NY, $274k–342k
- SambaNova: Director of Product, Ecosystem, San Jose, California, United States, $243k–297k
- Nebius: Director of Product, Ecosystem, United States, $228k–285k
- Lambda: Senior Director, Product Management - Foundations, Bellevue Office; San Francisco Office (Fremont St), $365k–540k
- Waymo: Head of Industrial Design, Mountain View, CA, US, $323k–399k
- 27 more in Pro
Expansions
- Mercor opened its first role in Latin America: Strategic Project Lead
- Granica opened its first role in Asia-Pacific: Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Bengaluru)
- Mercor opened its first role in Asia-Pacific: Member of Technical Staff
- Dust opened its first role in UK & Ireland: Founding Customer Success Manager
New functions
- SambaNova started hiring in Product & Design: Director of Product, Ecosystem
- Fractile started hiring in Operations: Accounts Payable Specialist
- Suki started hiring in Product & Design: Product Manager, Growth
- DataSnipper started hiring in Data: Senior Data Engineer
- OpenArt started hiring in Operations: VP of Finance
Contraction watch
- Motional: closing faster than opening (7 closed, 3 new in 7 days)
- Figure: closing faster than opening (5 closed, 1 new in 7 days)
- Simular: no new postings in 30 days (0 closed, 0 new in 7 days)
In this week's Pro brief
8 companies accelerating, every one of the 35 leadership seats by function, time to fill for 28 companies, net headcount adds, and the closed-roles table. Members got it this morning; start a trial to get next Monday's.
This week by function
Engineering 250, Go-to-market 218, Operations 196, Infrastructure 152, Product & Design 48, Research 39, Data 18, Other 15
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