AI Hiring Index

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

Shareable: the fastest-hiring AI companies this week and this week's leadership openings.

Slowing

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

Expansions

New functions

Contraction watch

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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