Week of May 25An Israeli SaaS just stood up an AI org in five days →
Top new roles, comp shifts, and pattern updates — every Monday.
Where the assembly line is heating up. Each cell is the number of unique AI roles (score ≥ 7) opened in the last 4 weeks; the line underneath is the change vs the 4 weeks before. Tap a stage to see its definition.
Stage, salary, and stack on every open AI role — across 334+ US tech companies.
Companies with the largest absolute pickup in AI hiring (last 4w minus prior 4w). Sparkline = last 12 weeks. New entrants can read as a big jump — treat with a grain of salt.
The shortest path to working on tomorrow's models. Pure-play AI labs are out-paying everyone — Anthropic is publishing $365–435k bands for TPMs, and the engineering ladder runs higher. No chip companies, no tooling vendors — just the labs training frontier models.
640 active roles8 labshighest band $350k–$850k at Anthropic
Banks, insurers, pharma giants, and airlines are quietly building in-house agent infra — and matching tech-company comp to do it. Capital One alone has 60+ AI roles open right now; J&J, Eli Lilly, and Allstate are not far behind.
710 active roles48 companieshighest band $258k–$452k at Visa
Palantir invented the role; AI labs made it the hottest seat in 2026. Engineers who fly in, sit with the customer, and turn an API into a deployed system. Anthropic posts $320–400k for FDE managers, Together AI $270–300k for individual contributors. OpenAI, Mistral, Cohere, Snorkel, Cresta — every lab now ships product through this archetype.
204 active roles42 companieshighest band $240k–$334k at Google
Adobe and Salesforce aren't waiting to be disrupted. The 2010s SaaS giants are now hiring AI engineers at a pace that rivals AI-native startups — Adobe alone has 200+ active AI roles, Salesforce nearly 100.
512 active roles10 companieshighest band $300k–$484k at Datadog
Where ML still has the highest leverage on revenue. Spotify, Pinterest, Reddit, Airbnb — all paying $250–370k to engineers who can move feed-relevance and ranking metrics two basis points.
129 active roles17 companieshighest band INR 2940k–INR 4170k at Airbnb
