Hiring

as of Nov 7 04:30Z

Open roles per day for each lab, rebuilt from the changes we’ve recorded on each job board. We don’t estimate anything.

By lab

Open roles per board, infrastructure roles, and the department that changed most.

Open roles per lab, the change over the comparison window, infrastructure roles, and the department that moved most
Lab	Open roles	Δ 30d	Infra	Δ	Moved most	Source
OpenAI	821	+5	0	±0	Go To Market +24	api.ashbyhq.comfetched Nov 7 00:01Z
Anthropic	676	+31	32	+4	Applied AI +12	boards-api.greenhouse.iofetched Nov 7 00:01Z
Google	149	+6	3	±0	SOFTWARE_ENGINEERING +2	google.comfetched Nov 7 00:18Z
xAI	300	−8	163	−4	Human Data −28	boards-api.greenhouse.iofetched Nov 7 00:01Z
Meta	No public feed
Mistral	235	+7	0	±0	Engineering & Infra +5	api.ashbyhq.comfetched Nov 7 00:01Z
DeepSeek	No public feed
Alibaba	No public feed
Moonshot AI	No public feed

Open roles over time

10,039 recorded job changes from 2026-08-26 to 2026-11-07, worked backwards from each board’s current listing.

OpenAI Anthropic Google xAI Mistral

Before we read the boards

Open roles on the Internet Archive’s copies of each lab’s own job board, one a week, until we began reading it ourselves.

OpenAI

53 copies, 2023-01-08 to 2026-08-19

Open roles Infrastructure

Anthropic

128 copies, 2023-01-18 to 2026-08-17

Open roles Infrastructure

Google

79 copies, 2023-01-27 to 2026-01-23

Open roles Infrastructure

xAI

92 copies, 2023-11-05 to 2026-08-21

Open roles Infrastructure

Mistral

64 copies, 2023-09-27 to 2026-10-21

Open roles Infrastructure

How far back each lab’s hiring history reaches
Lab	History from	Internet Archive copies read · skipped	We check it since	Gaps before that
OpenAI	2023-01-08	2023-01-08 – 2026-08-19 · 53 read · 0 skipped	2026-08-25	2024-03-14 – 2024-05-22: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch. 2024-05-22 – 2024-09-06: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch. 2024-09-27 – 2024-11-12: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch. 2025-09-29 – 2025-11-19: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch. 2025-11-19 – 2026-03-08: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch. 2026-03-18 – 2026-06-09: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch. 2026-06-09 – 2026-08-19: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch.
Anthropic	2023-01-18	2023-01-18 – 2026-08-17 · 128 read · 0 skipped	2026-08-25	2023-08-06 – 2023-12-07: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch.
Google	2023-01-27	2023-01-27 – 2026-01-23 · 79 read · 0 skipped	2026-11-04	2026-02-01 – 2026-11-04: From early 2026 deepmind.google/careers also sends applicants to Google’s careers site (company=DeepMind), the listing we read live. From then the Greenhouse board holds only part of DeepMind’s roles (9 on 2026-08-30), so we stop reading it.
xAI	2023-11-05	2023-11-05 – 2026-08-21 · 92 read · 1 skipped	2026-08-25	2023-01-01 – 2023-11-05: xAI announced itself in July 2023. The Archive’s first copy of its board is from November 2023. 2023-12-03 – 2024-02-07: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch.
Meta	no history yet	Meta posts its roles on metacareers.com, which draws its listing with scripts and has no public board API. Meta’s AI roles aren’t separable from the rest of the company there either.	—	—
Mistral	2023-09-27	2023-09-27 – 2026-10-21 · 64 read · 0 skipped	2026-11-02	2023-01-01 – 2023-09-27: Mistral was founded in April 2023. The Archive’s first copy of its Lever board is from September 2023. 2025-11-19 – 2026-01-07: The Archive holds no copy of the board from this stretch.

Physical-infrastructure buildout

Data-center, facilities, energy, construction, compute, and hardware roles per lab per day.

OpenAI Anthropic Google xAI Mistral

OpenAI

0 open · ±0 since 2026-10-08

No department on this board matches the list below.

OpenAI Ashby job boardNov 7 00:01Z

Anthropic

32 open · +4 since 2026-10-08

5% of the board

Anthropic Physical infrastructure roles by the board’s own department label
Department	Open	Δ
Compute	30	+4
Hardware	2	—

Anthropic Greenhouse jobsNov 7 00:01ZAnthropic Greenhouse departmentsNov 7 00:01Z

Google

3 open · ±0 since 2026-11-04

2% of the board

Google Physical infrastructure roles by the board’s own department label
Department	Open	Δ
HARDWARE_ENGINEERING	3	—

Google careers feed (DeepMind roles only)Nov 7 00:18Z

xAI

163 open · −4 since 2026-10-08

54% of the board

xAI Physical infrastructure roles by the board’s own department label
Department	Open	Δ
Data Center	157	−5
Infrastructure	6	+1

xAI Greenhouse jobsNov 7 00:01ZxAI Greenhouse departmentsNov 7 00:01Z

Mistral

0 open · ±0 since 2026-11-02

No department on this board matches the list below.

Mistral Ashby job boardNov 7 00:01Z

MetaNo public feedDeepSeekNo public feedAlibabaNo public feedMoonshot AINo public feed

We count a department when the board’s own label contains Data Center, Infrastructure, Facilities, Energy, Construction, Compute, or Hardware, unless it also says “Software”.

Data-center power

Epoch AI’s estimate of the power each lab’s data centers draw. That’s what the buildout roles are building.

15,122 MW across 96 sites, 15.77M H100-equivalents, as of Epoch’s data on 2026-11-07.

Estimated data-center power per lab, by Epoch AI’s named users
Lab	Power	H100-equivalents	Sites shared	Largest
Anthropic	2,533 MW	2.50M	5 (1)	Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle, Colossus 2, Colossus 1
Meta	2,335 MW	2.59M	16	Meta Prometheus, Meta-QTS Hillsboro 2, Meta Jeffersonville
OpenAI	2,293 MW	2.69M	12 (3)	OpenAI Stargate Abilene, Microsoft Fairwater Atlanta, Microsoft Fairwater Wisconsin
xAI	963 MW	1.12M	2 (1)	Colossus 2, xAI QTS Atlanta
Alibaba	169 MW	0.03M	1	Alibaba Zhangbei
Mistral	0 MW	0.00M	1	EcoDataCenter 2

Google: no site counted

Epoch AI, AI data centersNov 7 00:05ZCC BY 4.0, Epoch AI

Department mix, now against earlier

Open roles by department, now against 30 days ago or the first day on record.

Only departments that moved

OpenAI

821 open, +5 since 2026-10-08

OpenAI open roles by department, then and now
Department	2026-10-08	Now	Δ
Go To Market	145	169	+24
Applied AI	110	119	+9
Scaling	115	107	−8
Research	64	53	−11
User Operations	57	50	−7
Marketing	38	44	+6
Forward Deployed Engineering	30	37	+7
Finance	30	32	+2
Security	26	31	+5
Consumer Devices	29	20	−9
Safety Systems	16	18	+2
Data Science	18	15	−3
People	16	15	−1
Legal	10	14	+4
OpenAI for Gov	15	14	−1
Technical Program Management	13	14	+1
IT	8	9	+1
Strategic Finance	12	9	−3
Product Management	10	8	−2
Product Design	8	7	−1
Partnerships	4	6	+2
Communications	7	5	−2
Product Partnerships	2	4	+2
Workplace	3	2	−1
Intelligence & Investigations	5	1	−4
Life Sciences	2	1	−1
Product Operations	0	1	+1
Strategy & Operations	3	1	−2
Corporate Security	3	0	−3
Product Policy	2	0	−2

4 unchanged hidden.

Rows before our first check on Sep 8 06:00Z are imported history, shown as they stand today.

OpenAI Ashby job boardNov 7 00:01Z

Anthropic

676 open, +31 since 2026-10-08

Anthropic open roles by department, then and now
Department	2026-10-08	Now	Δ
Sales	120	122	+2
AI Research & Engineering	66	73	+7
Applied AI	58	70	+12
Security	51	54	+3
Finance	55	51	−4
Engineering & Design - Product	46	49	+3
Safeguards (Trust & Safety)	42	38	−4
Software Engineering - Infrastructure	45	37	−8
Compute	26	30	+4
Product Management, Support, & Operations	23	25	+2
Marketing & Brand	19	20	+1
Legal	20	19	−1
People	16	18	+2
Public Policy	11	14	+3
Data Science & Analytics	8	10	+2
Public Benefit	4	9	+5
Communications	4	8	+4
Technical Education	5	3	−2

2 unchanged hidden.

Rows before our first check on Sep 8 06:00Z are imported history, shown as they stand today.

Anthropic Greenhouse jobsNov 7 00:01ZAnthropic Greenhouse departmentsNov 7 00:01Z

Google

149 open, +6 since 2026-11-04

Google open roles by department, then and now
Department	2026-11-04	Now	Δ
SOFTWARE_ENGINEERING	68	70	+2
PRODUCT_MANAGEMENT	11	13	+2
JOB_CATEGORY_UNSPECIFIED	4	5	+1
NETWORK_ENGINEERING	0	1	+1

12 unchanged hidden.

Rows before our first check on Nov 5 00:17Z are imported history, shown as they stand today.

Google careers feed (DeepMind roles only)Nov 7 00:18Z

xAI

300 open, −8 since 2026-10-08

xAI open roles by department, then and now
Department	2026-10-08	Now	Δ
Data Center	162	157	−5
Engineering	27	30	+3
Safety	10	15	+5
Information Security	11	14	+3
Operations	3	13	+10
Model	8	11	+3
Legal	5	7	+2
Infrastructure	5	6	+1
Information Technology	5	4	−1
People	5	4	−1
STEM	0	4	+4
G&A	4	2	−2
Human Data	30	2	−28
Marketing	2	1	−1
Software Engineering	1	0	−1

5 unchanged hidden.

Rows before our first check on Sep 8 06:00Z are imported history, shown as they stand today.

xAI Greenhouse jobsNov 7 00:01ZxAI Greenhouse departmentsNov 7 00:01Z

Mistral

235 open, +7 since 2026-11-02

Mistral open roles by department, then and now
Department	2026-11-02	Now	Δ
Solutions	71	73	+2
Engineering & Infra	43	48	+5
Science	29	31	+2
Human Resources	28	27	−1
Business	20	21	+1
Legal	13	12	−1
Product	9	8	−1

3 unchanged hidden.

Mistral Ashby job boardNov 7 00:01Z

MetaNo public feedDeepSeekNo public feedAlibabaNo public feedMoonshot AINo public feed

Posted pay

The median midpoint of the US salary bands each board posts, for all roles, for research, and for software engineering.

Median midpoint of posted US salary bands, per role family
Board and roles	Median midpoint	Middle half	Bands	Change
OpenAI · All roles	$308K	$247K–$361K	644 of 821	0% since 2026-11-06
OpenAI · Research	$371K	$284K–$440K	51	0% since 2026-11-06
OpenAI · Software engineering	$356K	$310K–$396K	112	0% since 2026-11-06
Anthropic · All roles	$348K	$288K–$403K	529 of 677	−0.4% since 2026-11-06
Anthropic · Research	$475K	$363K–$675K	62	−5.9% since 2026-11-06
Anthropic · Software engineering	$445K	$384K–$445K	79	0% since 2026-11-06

OpenAI job boardNov 7 00:05ZAnthropic job boardNov 7 00:05Z

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