AI company hiring
Are the companies building AI still hiring engineers?
Contributes to: Are fewer people needed?. Signal score: 0 / 100. Relative weight within this question: 1.
StatusStill hiring
Latest value464
What it measures
- Metric
- Open software engineering roles at 11 AI companies, today
- Solved if
- The companies closest to the tools stop hiring engineers
- Signal score
- 0 / 100. 0 of 11 AI companies have stopped hiring engineers. How it is scored
- Status rule
- Still hiring when any of these companies lists an open software engineering role.
Who is hiring
11 of 11 companies have open software engineering roles. Hiring does not show how much of their code AI writes.
- OpenAI: 162 engineering roles, out of 810 open roles.
- Anthropic: 99 engineering roles, out of 675 open roles.
- Perplexity: 53 engineering roles, out of 138 open roles.
- xAI: 44 engineering roles, out of 308 open roles.
- Cohere: 29 engineering roles, out of 122 open roles.
- Cursor: 24 engineering roles, out of 125 open roles.
- Mistral: 22 engineering roles, out of 229 open roles.
- Lovable: 14 engineering roles, out of 80 open roles.
- Replit: 8 engineering roles, out of 34 open roles.
- Factory: 5 engineering roles, out of 67 open roles.
- Cognition: 4 engineering roles, out of 106 open roles.
Update history
The reading on each date we checked, separate from the historical observations above.
| Date | Value | Year over year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-02 | 464 | — | Still hiring |
| 2026-11-01 | 464 | — | Still hiring |
Source
| Source | Role | Measures | Latest data |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI company job boards | Scored measurement | Open software engineering roles at 11 AI companies | Nov 1, 2026 |