AI companies hiring right now include NVIDIA, ElevenLabs, OpenAI, Databricks, Cohere and Anthropic, which posted the most roles in our feed over the 30 days to November 7, 2026. The bigger surprise is what they are hiring for. On that date OpenAI's own job board listed 819 open roles and Anthropic's listed 675, and only about 1 in 15 at OpenAI and 1 in 9 at Anthropic sat on a research team. The largest group at both was sales.
Recent postings from AI companies in our feed
Live list, refreshed Nov 9, 2026
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$220k to $357k - CCAD 85k to CAD 135k
- X$180k to $330k
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EUR 130k to EUR 170k - C$133k
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$75k to $103k - R$180k
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Our feed picked up about 780 postings from AI companies in those 30 days, and the median stated pay was about $214k across the 359 that listed a salary. Each card links to where the job was posted. A few go to job boards rather than the company, so when a card interests you, find the same role on the employer's own board before you apply.
Which AI companies are hiring the most
Postings first seen in the last 30 days. Refreshed daily.
| NVIDIA | 158 |
| OpenAI | 61 |
| ElevenLabs | 60 |
| Cohere | 44 |
| Databricks | 42 |
| Anthropic | 30 |
| Scale AI | 28 |
| Harvey | 27 |
| Sierra | 23 |
| Scale Army Careers | 18 |
| xAI | 15 |
| Cohere Health | 14 |
| CoreWeave | 14 |
| Sierra Nevada Corporation | 12 |
| Scale Army | 11 |
| Mistral AI | 10 |
| Glean | 8 |
| Runway | 8 |
| Lambda | 8 |
| Together AI | 7 |
We match companies by name against a list of about 45 AI labs, model makers and AI startups. Name matching lets a few namesakes in (a health company called Cohere Health, a defence firm called Sierra Nevada, a legal nonprofit called Lambda Legal), so treat the smaller bars with care.
Source: Our job data, Nov 9, 2026
NVIDIA leads because it is far bigger than the model labs and hires across chips, software and data centres worldwide. Below it the order moves week to week. Our counts are also much smaller than what the labs themselves list, because we count postings that first appeared in the last 30 days, while a careers page shows everything still open, including roles posted months ago.
Most jobs at AI labs are not research
Source: OpenAI job board (Ashby) and Anthropic job board (Greenhouse), counted Nov 7, 2026
Top 10 teams, open roles on November 7, 2026
| Go To Market | 169 |
| Applied AI | 119 |
| Scaling | 107 |
| Research | 53 |
| User Operations | 50 |
| Marketing | 43 |
| Forward Deployed Eng. | 37 |
| Security | 31 |
| Finance | 31 |
| Consumer Devices | 20 |
Top 10 teams, open roles on November 7, 2026
| Sales | 121 |
| AI Research & Engineering | 74 |
| Applied AI | 70 |
| Security | 54 |
| Finance | 51 |
| Product Engineering & Design | 49 |
| Infrastructure | 37 |
| Safeguards (Trust & Safety) | 36 |
| Compute | 30 |
| Product, Support & Ops | 25 |
Team names are each company's own, lightly shortened. The same name can mean different work: Applied AI is a product engineering group at OpenAI and mostly customer-facing technical roles at Anthropic.
If you are not an engineer, these two charts are the most useful thing on this page. The labs are now selling to enterprises and governments, and that takes people:
- Sales and go-to-market: account executives, solutions and partner managers, customer success. This is the single largest group at both companies.
- Operations and support: OpenAI's User Operations team had 50 roles open; Anthropic folds support into a product, support and operations group.
- Finance, legal and people: about 30 to 50 finance roles at each, plus legal, recruiting and workplace jobs.
- Policy and safety: Anthropic listed 14 public policy roles and 36 in Safeguards (trust and safety); OpenAI had openings in Global Affairs, Safety Systems and a government team called OpenAI for Gov.
Research roles exist, and they pay the most, but there are a few dozen of them at each lab against hundreds of other openings.
What OpenAI and Anthropic pay
Middle half of posted US salary ranges (midpoint of each range), thousands of US dollars a year. Dot = median.
| OpenAI, Finance | $228k to $265k |
| OpenAI, Go To Market | $238k to $290k |
| OpenAI, Applied AI | $309k to $396k |
| OpenAI, Research | $284k to $440k |
| Anthropic, Finance | $210k to $283k |
| Anthropic, Sales (OTE) | $258k to $415k |
| Anthropic, Safeguards | $265k to $403k |
| Anthropic, AI Research | $363k to $675k |
Only teams with at least 20 posted US ranges are shown. Anthropic's sales ranges are on-target earnings (base plus commission target); all other figures are base salary ranges. Equity is extra at both and not included. Across all roles, the median range midpoint was about $308k at OpenAI (644 ranges) and $348k at Anthropic (528 ranges).
Source: OpenAI and Anthropic job boards, counted Nov 7, 2026
These are posted ranges, not offers. Several US states, including California, New York and Washington, require most employers to put a pay range in job postings, which is why so many US roles show one. The broader AI-company median in our feed (about $214k) is lower because it spans dozens of companies of every size, not just the two best-funded labs.
What these companies ask for
| OpenAI | Anthropic | |
|---|---|---|
| Degree | Rarely stated (87 postings) | Bachelor's or equivalent experience (all) |
| Experience asked | 8+ years (median) | 7+ years (median) |
| Office time | 3 days a week (258); 27 remote | 25% of the time (all); 18 remote-friendly |
| Python named | 27% of postings | 29% of postings |
| PhD named | 14 postings | 26 postings |
| Visa line | Not mentioned | "We do sponsor visas!" (all, with limits) |
| Relocation help | 341 postings | 9 postings |
Text search of all 819 OpenAI and 675 Anthropic postings on November 7, 2026. Experience is the median of the first "N+ years" figure in each posting that gives one.
Source: OpenAI and Anthropic job boards
We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed.
Read the postings rather than the counts and two things stand out. The labs want proof that you use AI in your own work, even outside engineering. An Anthropic finance posting asks for "experience using AI tools to automate accounting and reporting work", and OpenAI postings include lines like "comfortable using APIs, automation, and AI tools such as Codex to accelerate workflows". And almost nothing is fully remote. If you need a remote job, the AI startups further down our company chart are a better bet than the two big labs.
How to get hired at an AI company without a research background
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Pick the team, then the company
Read the team lists above and find the one that matches what you already do: sales, support, finance, policy, security, recruiting. Apply to the same team at two or three companies instead of every role at one.
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Show your own AI use with a number
Add one resume bullet about a workflow you changed with an AI tool, with the before and after. The template below gives the shape.
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Check the office rule before you apply
Most roles at the two big labs expect you in San Francisco, New York, Seattle, London or another office part of the week. Don't spend an application on a role you can't attend.
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Judge the level by the title, not the pay
At these companies even mid-level ranges start well above $200k, so pay won't tell you the level. Look at the title and the years asked: with three years of experience, skip roles marked senior, staff or lead, and look harder at the smaller companies on the chart.
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Have a written answer to "why this team"
Write five sentences on why this team, what you would do in your first 90 days, and one result you have already delivered that proves it. Reuse it in the application form, the recruiter call and the first interview; our STAR method guide covers the spoken version.
Built a [tool or workflow] using [named AI tool or API] that cut [task] from [before] to [after] for [team or number of people], and wrote the guide [number] colleagues now use. Example shape (fill in your own facts): Automated the weekly churn report with an LLM summary step, cutting prep from 6 hours to 1 for a 12-person account team.
OpenAI and Anthropic postings in our feed
Recent OpenAI postings
Live list, refreshed Nov 9, 2026
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$245k
Recent Anthropic postings
Live list, refreshed Nov 9, 2026
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Scaled Account Manager, Beneficial DeploymentsAnthropicSan Francisco, California · Hybrid · 5 days ago$223k to $290k - A
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$255k
About 63 new OpenAI postings and 44 from Anthropic reached our feed in the 30 days to November 7, 2026. For everything still open, use OpenAI's careers search and Anthropic's job board. Outside the labs, our Google careers page lists the remote roles open at a company with its own large AI research group.
Questions people ask
Is Anthropic hiring right now?
Yes. Anthropic's job board listed 675 open roles on November 7, 2026, with sales (121), AI research and engineering (74) and applied AI (70) the largest teams.
How many jobs does OpenAI have open?
OpenAI's job board listed 819 open roles on November 7, 2026. The biggest teams were Go To Market (169), Applied AI (119) and Scaling (107); its Research team had 53 openings.
Do AI companies hire people who are not engineers?
Yes, and in large numbers. About 44% of OpenAI's open roles and 39% of Anthropic's were in sales, support, finance, legal, people, marketing, communications or policy teams when we counted. Most still ask you to show that you use AI tools in your own work.
Do you need a PhD to work at OpenAI or Anthropic?
For almost every role, no. Only 14 of OpenAI's 819 postings and 26 of Anthropic's 675 mentioned a PhD at all, and Anthropic's postings accept a bachelor's degree or an equivalent mix of education and experience. Some research roles do favour doctoral work.
Do AI companies hire remote workers?
The big labs mostly don't. OpenAI marked 27 of 819 roles as remote and Anthropic listed 18 as remote-friendly in the US; the rest expect office time. Smaller AI startups and AI training platforms offer far more remote work.
Does Anthropic sponsor visas?
Its postings say "We do sponsor visas!" and add that it can't sponsor every role and every candidate. OpenAI's postings don't mention visas, so ask the recruiter. Our visa sponsorship page explains how to check an employer's record.