The Jobs Desk: verified AI, robotics and chip-industry openings in the US, checked against the employer or agency posting, with closing dates.
Yes. On Oct. 6, 2026 Scale AI listed 188 open roles on its own board, 144 in the US, down from 227 on Sep. 15. None list Remote as the location; the 16 remote postings are contract roles.
The employer closed the link, and the page will not say why. Between Sep. 28 and Oct. 5, 2026, 280 postings came down on 19 AI job boards; 13 came back under a new link.
Start with the pay on the posting. On Oct. 4, 2026 we opened 754 real AI job application forms: 45 asked for a desired salary, and all 45 postings already printed the pay.
Yes. On Oct. 3, 2026 we read 3,861 open postings on 19 AI job boards. None sets a hard limit; 50 mention applying to more than one role, and Waymo asks interns for their top 3.
On Oct. 2, 2026 we read 27 robotics technician postings at 7 robot and robotaxi employers. The 19 with hourly pay had a median range of $30.10 to $50 an hour; the BLS median is $35.53.
On Oct. 1, 2026 we read 1,381 US hybrid job postings on 19 AI employers’ own boards: 563 (41%) never say how many office days. Where a day count is written, 307 of 346 say 3 days a week or at least 3.
On Sept. 30, 2026, 22 of 25 US software and machine-learning intern postings on 19 AI employers’ boards named an hourly rate, from $40 to $85. Waymo pays by degree: $60 bachelor’s, $70 master’s, $85 PhD, $50 MBA.
Yes. On Sept. 29, 2026 Anthropic’s own job board listed 629 open roles, up from 517 on Aug. 22, the biggest net gain of 19 AI employer boards we read daily. Sales added 44, research added 3, and 0 of 629 postings say new grad or entry-level.
No. On Sept. 28, 2026 we opened 475 live application forms at 19 AI, robotics and autonomy employers. Not one required a cover letter and only 158 had a box for it, but 139 required a written answer to a specific question instead.
No. On Sept. 27, 2026 we read the live postings of 18 AI employers and the careers or candidate-privacy pages of all 19 we track. 0 offer an opt-out, 1 says AI may screen you, and OpenAI’s own policy says it uses no automated decision-making.