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AI Sector Intelligence

Tracking hiring patterns across 11 frontier AI companies. 1,841 active positions (+21 this week).

Active Observations (Week of Jan 28, 2026)

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CompanyRolesDeltaTrendFocus Areas
OpenAI484
+13+51/-38
No history
Enterprise SalesCore Engineering (Platform & Infrastructure)+1
OpenAI
No history
484 positions+13(+51/-38)
Enterprise SalesCore Engineering (Platform & Infrastructure)People Operations & Scaling
Anthropic366
+14+51/-37
No history
Enterprise Sales & GTMSecurity & Red Teaming+1
Anthropic
No history
366 positions+14(+51/-37)
Enterprise Sales & GTMSecurity & Red TeamingCompute/Infrastructure Engineering
xAI277
0+7/-7
No history
Internal Infrastructure & IT SupportLegal & Organizational Operations+1
xAI
No history
277 positions0(+7/-7)
Internal Infrastructure & IT SupportLegal & Organizational OperationsModel Interpretability & RLHF
Mistral158
-8+8/-16
No history
Applied AI Engineering & EvaluationGlobal Marketing & Partnerships+1
Mistral
No history
158 positions-8(+8/-16)
Applied AI Engineering & EvaluationGlobal Marketing & PartnershipsInternal Controls & Enterprise Sales
Scale AI151
+3+12/-9
No history
Public Sector & Enterprise SalesProduct Marketing (Public Sector, Enterprise)+1
Scale AI
No history
151 positions+3(+12/-9)
Public Sector & Enterprise SalesProduct Marketing (Public Sector, Enterprise)Strategic Partnerships & International Expansion
Cohere121
-6+1/-7
No history
Revenue OperationsEnterprise Sales (but slowing)+1
Cohere
No history
121 positions-6(+1/-7)
Revenue OperationsEnterprise Sales (but slowing)ML/AI and Engineering
Figure AI99
+1+3/-2
No history
Manufacturing OperationsFacilities and Safety+1
Figure AI
No history
99 positions+1(+3/-2)
Manufacturing OperationsFacilities and SafetySupply Chain/Inventory Management
Perplexity72
+1+2/-1
No history
Core Engineering & InfrastructureSales & Business Development
Perplexity
No history
72 positions+1(+2/-1)
Core Engineering & InfrastructureSales & Business Development
Together AI52
+1+3/-2
No history
Distributed Systems & InfrastructureNetwork Engineering+1
Together AI
No history
52 positions+1(+3/-2)
Distributed Systems & InfrastructureNetwork EngineeringBackend Engineering
Cursor37
+1+1/-0
No history
Enterprise Field EngineeringSales/Go-to-Market+1
Cursor
No history
37 positions+1(+1/-0)
Enterprise Field EngineeringSales/Go-to-MarketCore Engineering/Product
Fireworks AI24
+1+1/-0
No history
Security EngineeringInference Infrastructure
Fireworks AI
No history
24 positions+1(+1/-0)
Security EngineeringInference Infrastructure

Sector Signals

Anthropic
Unusually high week-over-week net hiring increase relative to recent months
anomaly
Anthropic
Strategic de-prioritization of large GTM partnership roles (Accenture, Microsoft) mid-expansion phase
anomaly
Cohere
Pullback in public sector sales roles despite recent Canadian government funding
anomaly
Cohere
Closure of safety and research hiring just months after hiring a Chief AI Officer with research ambitions
anomaly
Mistral
The simultaneous, large-scale closure of research/ML positions and product design jobs is a notable shift for a company still posturing as a model innovator. This could indicate an internal reckoning on project viability, funding allocation, or a broader strategic pivot from R&D to commercialization.
anomaly
Sector
Enterprise and sector-specific sales roles are spiking at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Scale AI, with rapid specialization by geography and industry vertical.
signal
Sector
Security and red teaming hiring is surging across Anthropic, Fireworks AI, and xAI, demonstrating sector convergence around operational/model robustness.
signal
Sector
Director-level hires in revenue operations and infrastructure suggest a turn toward mature, large-scale operationalization—seen at OpenAI, Cohere, Scale AI, and Anthropic.
signal
Sector
Companies like Mistral and Cohere are pulling back on research and forward engineering, shifting to operational and financial controls as they scale.
signal
Sector
Manufacturing and supply chain operations become a hiring focus only at robotics-centric Figure AI, diverging from software-centric AI labs.
signal
Sector
Specialization within engineering (distributed storage, HPC, inferencing) is replacing generalist roles at Together AI and others.
signal
Sector
AI Tutor/Trainer (RLHF) hiring shows up again at xAI despite earlier annotation layoffs, indicating oscillation in RLHF/data staffing models.
signal