AI infra hiring trends
Market intelligence observed directly from 84 companies' job boards — no scraped aggregators, no estimates. Counts start at our first crawl on 2026-08-17 and accumulate daily (last snapshot 2026-10-16).
Open roles over time — Sierra
Published listings at each UTC day boundary; today is provisional. Source coverage, review, and classifier changes also affect this total. Gaps mean no verified snapshot is available.
First published vs source closures, weekly
First publication on this site versus previously active listings confirmed missing from source boards. Excludes reopens and classifier, review, and deduplication removals; these flows do not explain all changes in the published total.
Who is hiring
Live open roles per company, with change over the last 7 and 30 observed days. Click a sparkline to filter the charts above.
| company | open | Δ7d | Δ30d | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon (AWS)hyperscaler | 231 | -8 | — | |
| Nebiusneocloud | 104 | -2 | — | |
| CoreWeaveneocloud | 72 | +2 | — | |
| Nscaleneocloud | 72 | +1 | — | |
| Anthropicfrontier lab | 69 | +2 | — | |
| OpenAIfrontier lab | 68 | -2 | — | |
| Cerebraschip vendor | 64 | -3 | — | |
| Crusoeneocloud | 58 | -4 | — | |
| FluidStackneocloud | 54 | +1 | — | |
| xAIfrontier lab | 51 | +7 | — | |
| Etchedchip vendor | 42 | -3 | — | |
| IRENneocloud | 41 | +3 | — | |
| Together AIneocloud | 34 | -3 | — | |
| Mistral AIfrontier lab | 33 | +3 | — | |
| Lambdaneocloud | 31 | 0 | — | |
| SambaNovachip vendor | 29 | -1 | — | |
| Tenstorrentchip vendor | 26 | +2 | — | |
| TensorWaveneocloud | 23 | +2 | — | |
| DigitalOceanneocloud | 22 | -3 | — | |
| Baseteninference provider | 21 | 0 | — | |
| Inferactinference provider | 20 | 0 | — | |
| Lightning AIai startup | 19 | 0 | — | |
| Coherefrontier lab | 16 | -1 | — | |
| Thinking Machines Labfrontier lab | 16 | +2 | — | |
| Fireworks AIinference provider | 13 | 0 | — | |
| Luma AIai startup | 12 | 0 | — | |
| Modalinference provider | 12 | -1 | — | |
| Radiantneocloud | 12 | +2 | — | |
| Prime Intellectneocloud | 11 | -2 | — | |
| DeepInfrainference provider | 9 | -2 | — | |
| Anyscaleai startup | 8 | +1 | — | |
| NexGen Cloudneocloud | 7 | +1 | — | |
| Perplexityai startup | 7 | 0 | — | |
| River AIfrontier lab | 7 | 0 | — | |
| FriendliAIinference provider | 6 | 0 | — | |
| Parasailinference provider | 6 | 0 | — | |
| Reactorinference provider | 6 | 0 | — | |
| Cursorai startup | 5 | 0 | — | |
| falinference provider | 5 | -2 | — | |
| Reflection AIfrontier lab | 5 | +1 | — | |
| Runpodneocloud | 5 | -1 | — | |
| Harveyai startup | 4 | 0 | — | |
| Liquid AIfrontier lab | 4 | 0 | — | |
| Runwareinference provider | 4 | -2 | — | |
| Scale AIai startup | 4 | 0 | — | |
| Black Forest Labsfrontier lab | 3 | -1 | — | |
| Hedraai startup | 3 | 0 | — | |
| Inceptionfrontier lab | 3 | 0 | — | |
| Lila Sciencesai startup | 3 | 0 | — | |
| San Francisco Compute Companyneocloud | 3 | 0 | — | |
| DoorDashenterprise | 2 | 0 | — | |
| ElevenLabsai startup | 2 | 0 | — | |
| Figureai startup | 2 | 0 | — | |
| Fish Audio (39 AI)ai startup | 2 | 0 | — | |
| Generalistai startup | 2 | 0 | — | |
| Genesis Molecular AIai startup | 2 | 0 | — | |
| Matter Intelligenceai startup | 2 | 0 | — | |
| Novita AIinference provider | 2 | +1 | — | |
| Relaceinference provider | 2 | 0 | — | |
| Xaira Therapeuticsai startup | 2 | 0 | — | |
| 1Xai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Abridgeai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Ai2frontier lab | 1 | +1 | — | |
| Boson AIfrontier lab | 1 | -1 | — | |
| Cartesiaai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Cognitionai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Echo Neurotechnologiesai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Ineffable Intelligencefrontier lab | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Interfazeinference provider | 1 | 0 | — | |
| MongoDBai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Nimble Roboticsai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Periodic Labsfrontier lab | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Physical Intelligenceai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Poolsidefrontier lab | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Prior Labsai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Rekafrontier lab | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Sakana AIfrontier lab | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Scalewayneocloud | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Sesameai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Sierraai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Skild AIai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Sunday Roboticsai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Sunoai startup | 1 | 0 | — | |
| Waferinference provider | 1 | 0 | — |
Category mix
Share of active listings tagged with each category. A listing can carry several tags in a dimension, so shares can exceed 100% combined.
relative share of infra layer tags · snapshot 2026-10-16
Skill demand
Model-extracted skills in published listings. Unknown or stale extraction is not evidence that a skill is absent.
Kernel library demand
GPU kernel programming stacks named by active postings — which kernel library the market hires for. A role can name several.
Deep-learning framework demand
Frameworks active roles work with at a systems level — passing mentions don't count.
Accelerator hardware demand
Accelerator hardware active roles target. “Other” covers Inferentia, Cerebras, Groq, and custom ASICs.
Seniority mix
Listings with a detected seniority level.
Remote policy
Listings with a stated remote policy.