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AI companies / AI, by role

Machine learning engineer jobs at
AI startups that just raised.

As of 20 September 2026Updated dailySource: company career pages
505
machine learning roles open
163
Companies hiring
69
Remote
14%
Share that is remote
27%
Post a salary range
22
Added in the last 7 days
$13.3B
Raised, last announced rounds
1.5%
Of all roles on the board

505 machine learning roles are open at 163 companies, 14% of them remote and 27% with a published range. 22 arrived in the last week.

Below, the 30 companies with the most machine learning roles open right now, then the newest listings. Every role is pulled from the company's own careers page.

Nuro logo

Nuro

21 machine learning roles of 107

Autonomous driving technology company

Extension · $97M · Mountain View, CA

Lila Sciences logo

Lila Sciences

19 machine learning roles of 111

Company building a scientific platform and autonomous labs for life, chemical, and materials sciences

Seed · $115M · Boston, MA

Distyl AI logo

Distyl AI

16 machine learning roles of 24

Startup helping leaders worldwide build AI-native enterprises

$175M · San Francisco, CA

Waabi logo

Waabi

16 machine learning roles of 85

Physical AI company

Series C · $750M · Toronto, Canada

Astera Labs logo

Astera Labs

14 machine learning roles of 42

Provider of chips to connect AI systems in the cloud

Series D · $150M · Santa Clara, CA

Preply logo

Preply

14 machine learning roles of 111

Language learning marketplace

Series D · $150M · NYC

SandboxAQ logo

SandboxAQ

11 machine learning roles of 27

Company delivering solutions at the intersection of AI and quantum techniques

Series E · Palo Alto, CA

Featherless.ai logo

Featherless.ai

10 machine learning roles of 17

Provider of a serverless AI inference platform

Seed · $5M · Menlo Park, CA

Cantina logo

Cantina

9 machine learning roles of 20

Provider of a community-powered agentic security platform

$8M · Miami, FL

PhysicsX logo

PhysicsX

9 machine learning roles of 39

Physical AI company

Series B · $135M · London, UK

Iambic Therapeutics logo

Iambic Therapeutics

8 machine learning roles of 26

Venture

Striveworks logo

Striveworks

8 machine learning roles of 21

Company which specializes in AI operations for defense and national security missions

Austin, TX

Cohere Health logo

Cohere Health

7 machine learning roles of 142

Provider of clinical intelligence solutions for health plans and risk-bearing providers

Series C · $90M · Boston, MA

Prior Labs logo

Prior Labs

7 machine learning roles of 24

AI startup developing foundation models for spreadsheets and databases

Pre-Seed · €9M · Freiburg, Germany

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Together AI

7 machine learning roles of 78

Provider of an AI Native Cloud enabling users to run open source AI models at scale

Series C · $800m · San Francisco, CA

Cognition logo

Cognition

6 machine learning roles of 97

Developer of autonomous AI software engineering agents

Series C · San Francisco, CA

Deepgram logo

Deepgram

6 machine learning roles of 92

Provider of a real-time API platform underpinning the Voice AI economy

Series C · $130M · San Francisco, CA

Fundamental logo

Fundamental

6 machine learning roles of 19

AI company building Large Tabular Model to drive predictions from enterprise data

Series A · $255M · San Francisco, CA

Pluralis Research logo

Pluralis Research

6 machine learning roles of 10

AI company developing true open-source AI through decentralized training

Seed · $7.6M · Melbourne, Australia

Traversal logo

Traversal

6 machine learning roles of 24

Company building AI agents for enterprise-grade site reliability engineering (SRE)

Strategic · NYC

Twelve Labs logo

Twelve Labs

6 machine learning roles of 16

Video search and understanding company

Seed · $30M · San Francisco, Calif.

Bedrock Robotics logo

Bedrock Robotics

5 machine learning roles of 38

Autonomous construction technology company

Series B · $270M · San Francisco, CA

Epsilon Health logo

Epsilon Health

5 machine learning roles of 8

$27.6M

Generalist AI logo

Generalist AI

5 machine learning roles of 23

Developer of embodied robotics intelligence and foundation models

$400m · San Francisco, CA

Gridware logo

Gridware

5 machine learning roles of 20

Continuous power grid monitoring solution provider

Growth · $55M · San Francisco, CA

Perplexity logo

Perplexity

5 machine learning roles of 118

$200M

Profluent logo

Profluent

5 machine learning roles of 13

Leader in frontier AI for protein design

$106M · Emeryville, CA

Weave logo

Weave

5 machine learning roles of 28

Provider of an engineering-intelligence layer service solution

Series A · $13.5M · San Francisco, CA

White Circle logo

White Circle

5 machine learning roles of 22

Developer of an AI control and safety platform

Seed · $11m · Paris, France

AfterQuery logo

AfterQuery

4 machine learning roles of 38

Applied data solutions research lab

Series A · $30M · San Francisco, CA

Newest machine learning roles

  • Waabi logoSenior / Staff Software Engineer, ML-based ControlsWaabi · Remote (US)
  • K
    Staff AI EngineerKastle · San Francisco
  • Distyl AI logoAI Engineer (French Speaking) Distyl AI · New York
  • Gallatin AI logoMachine Learning Operations (MLOps) EngineerGallatin AI · El Segundo, Ca
  • Q
    Staff Deep Learning Compiler EngineerQuadric · Burlingame, Ca (hq)
  • Q
    Staff Deep Learning Compiler EngineerQuadric · Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • Cambridge Mobile Telematics logoPrincipal Machine Learning EngineerCambridge Mobile Telematics · Cambridge, Ma
  • HOLYWATER logoAI EngineerHOLYWATER · Kyiv, Ukraine
  • happyhotel logoSenior Machine Learning Engineer (m/f/d)happyhotel · Offenburg
  • happyhotel logoSenior Machine Learning Engineer (m/w/d)happyhotel · Offenburg
  • Brandlight logoSenior Applied AI EngineerBrandlight · Tlv Office
  • Sable logoApplied AI Engineer, EvalsSable · San Francisco
  • Lila Sciences logoSenior/Principal ML Scientist, Translational BiologyLila Sciences · San Francisco, Ca Usa
  • Lila Sciences logoSenior ML Scientist, AI for Protein EngineeringLila Sciences · San Francisco, Ca Usa
  • Horizon3.ai logoSenior Machine Learning Engineer, Defensive AgentHorizon3.ai · Remote (US)
  • Horizon3.ai logoApplied AI Engineer, Autonomous DefenseHorizon3.ai · Remote (US)
  • Vibe.co logoSenior SRE/ML Ops Engineer - PerformanceVibe.co · Paris
  • Matter Intelligence logoApplied AI Engineer (Product)Matter Intelligence · San Francisco
  • Chattermill logoSenior Machine Learning ScientistChattermill · Uk
  • Amber logoAI Researcher (F/M/*)Amber · Aachen
  • Unusual logoPrincipal AI Engineer -EnfiUnusual · Boston, Massachusetts
  • Epsilon Health logoResearch Engineer - Data Quality & EvalsEpsilon Health · San Francisco, Ca
  • Epsilon Health logoResearch Scientist - Vision Foundation ModelsEpsilon Health · San Francisco, Ca
  • Twelve Labs logoStaff Machine Learning Engineer, Video Ingestion & Serving PlatformTwelve Labs · Seoul, South Korea
  • Perplexity logoMember of Technical Staff (Applied AI Engineer, Agent Capabilities)Perplexity · San Francisco
  • Toloka logoSenior ML ResearcherToloka · European Union
  • AfterQuery logoResearch Scientist – Frontier EvaluationsAfterQuery · San Francisco
  • Cantina logoResearch Scientist, Video Foundation ModelsCantina · California
  • Socure logoSenior AI EngineerSocure · Hybrid (New York Ny)
  • Socure logoAI EngineerSocure · Remote (US)
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Method

Every role is pulled daily from the company's own careers page, never a job aggregator. A role counts when its title reads as ml engineer; the reading is done from the title alone, not the company's department label, so "Go-to-Market" at one company and "Sales" at another are treated the same way. A company counts as AI if it says so in its name, or if at least 2 of its open roles are AI or ML roles and they are at least 15% of everything it has open, the same test as the AI companies page. Remote is read from the text of the posting, and hybrid counts as onsite. Figures recomputed 20 September 2026.