Market
Who's hiring in AI right now
743 AI companies are hiring right now, with 48,889 open roles and 1,704 new this week. The fastest-growing teams are NVIDIA, Pluralis Research, and Brain Co..
A live read on the AI hiring market: new roles this week, the companies hiring hardest, and frontier-lab activity.
AI hiring concentrates from March to June, when annual headcount budgets open. The second half of the year is structurally thinner, and the entry-level share has fallen from roughly 3-in-10 hires in 2023 to about 1-in-10 in 2025.
Seniority mix
- Senior11,418
- Manager / Lead5,937
- Director+2,569
- Staff / Principal2,269
- Entry / Junior1,012
- Intern887
Work mode
- On-site32,516
- Remote9,204
- Hybrid7,169
Role mix
Active roles by categoryWhere AI roles are
102 countries- United States29,591
- United Kingdom2,219
- Germany2,116
- India1,885
- Canada1,054
Placed by posting location. 9,204 remote · 5,543 with no location given.
Biggest movers
- NVIDIA+91.1x
- new
- new
- new
- new
Cooling
- Speechify-1010x
- Clera-550.7x
- FluidStack-140x
AI Labs activity
- Active roles
- 4,155
- New this week
- 112
Gigs & bounties
Project-based AI work
Paid task and contract work alongside permanent roles - hourly gigs, fixed builds, and prize bounties, almost all with pay disclosed up front.
Gig vs bounty
Pay unit
Disclosed pay onlyTop categories
By work typeBy source
Hackathons
Open AI hackathons
Build sprints and competitions with prizes and hard deadlines - a fast on-ramp for students, switchers, and researchers alongside permanent roles.