The Jobs Desk: verified AI, robotics and chip-industry openings in the US, checked against the employer or agency posting, with closing dates.
No. On September 1, 2026 we read every US posting on 20 AI and robotics job boards. A PhD is mentioned in 238 of 2,954 – and required in seven. Here are all seven, and what the other 2,947 ask for instead.
We counted Anthropic’s whole job board on August 31, 2026: 571 open roles, 443 in the US, up 55 in seven days. Sales 29, Compute 17, research 3 – and zero entry-level titles.
We read every US posting on twenty AI and robotics job boards on August 30, 2026. ChatGPT appeared in 147 of 2,930 – and 133 of those were OpenAI’s own. Here is what employers ask for instead, and how to write it.
We read every US posting on twenty AI and robotics job boards on August 29, 2026 and pulled the 2,144 that printed a salary. Anthropic tops the list at a $362,500 median midpoint — and had zero entry-level openings.
We read all 112 open xAI postings for Memphis and Southaven on August 28, 2026. Three publish a salary. Here is what they say, why the other 109 are blank, and which roles take a high-school diploma.
We read every open role on 20 AI company job boards on August 27, 2026. Of the 1,920 postings with an employment-type label, four are part-time and none is in the US. Here is what a real AI training job looks like, and what the FTC counts.
We read the full text of every hands-on robot technician, assembler and operator role open at eight AI-robotics companies on August 26, 2026. Forty-two of the 55 name no academic credential at all, two require a bachelor’s with no alternative – and more postings set a lifting limit than a degree bar.
We read the qualification text on every federal tech opening at grade 9 or below that was open to the public on August 25, 2026. Eighteen let a degree replace the work history outright, twenty-six do not – and the grade number on 45 of them is not a GS grade at all.
We read every technician posting open at eight AI companies on August 24, 2026. Ten accept a high school diploma. Exactly one asks for zero to two years of experience – and the fastest-growing door is not the IT door at all.
We read all 750 open OpenAI roles and all 518 at Anthropic on August 23, 2026 — plus both companies’ published rules on using AI in your own application, which door is open to beginners, and where the openings actually are.