Updated 27 August 2026

AI Hiring Report

Every one of the 1,226 open jobs at 62 AI companies, counted. Updated automatically.

1,226open jobs
62Companies
28Countries
66days open, typical
1.5%accept beginners
21%list a salary

What kind of jobs

Machine Learning 617
Research 316
MLOps & Infrastructure 188
AI Product & Design 61
AI Safety & Policy 30
Data 14

Which countries

United States 720
United Kingdom 119
France 52
Germany 35
Canada 30
India 29
Netherlands 25
Israel 15

Who hires who

Each company's open jobs split by type.

OpenAI 164
Anthropic 129
Databricks 88
Scale AI 71
Mistral AI 71
Wayve 49
Celonis 44
xAI 44
Machine Learning Research Data MLOps & Infrastructure AI Product & Design AI Safety & Policy

Experience required

3+ years 660
5+ years 330
8+ years 218
No experience yet 18

Salaries

Only 260 of 1,226 jobs list a salary. Averages of those that do.

Machine Learning $209k – $303k
Research $244k – $382k
MLOps & Infrastructure $227k – $360k
AI Safety & Policy $235k – $349k
AI Product & Design $225k – $305k
Data $441k – $515k

How long jobs stay open

61
under 1w
232
1–4w
411
1–3m
214
3–6m
197
6–12m
80
1–2y
31
over 2y

Tools and frameworks

PyTorch 269
Kubernetes 188
CUDA 101
JAX 100
Spark 79
vLLM 76
TensorFlow 74
TensorRT 65
Triton 56
Ray 44

What the work involves

Evaluation 599
LLMs 543
Agents 503
Inference 372
Multimodal 277
Fine-tuning 203
Interpretability 141
Reinforcement learning 140
RAG 106
RLHF 64

What they ask for

Master's degree 258
Open-source work 250
PhD 168
Publications 130
NeurIPS / ICML 60

Pay and perks mentioned

Equity 489
Hybrid working 431
Visa / sponsorship 206
Relocation 193
Security clearance 17

Counted from every open job on Neural Jobs, refreshed twice a day. Tools and requirements are read from the full job descriptions using exact-match patterns, not loose keyword search.