The Jobs Desk: verified AI, robotics and chip-industry openings in the US, checked against the employer or agency posting, with closing dates.
We counted 3,870 open jobs on 20 AI company boards on September 25, 2026, up 218 in five weeks. Only 115 of the 3,075 US postings are for students, new grads or beginner technicians.
We read all 318 remote postings on 19 AI company job boards on September 24, 2026. 153 can be done from a US home with no office days, at seven companies, and 99 of them are not engineering jobs.
We read every humanoid robot operator posting at Figure AI, 1X, Physical Intelligence and Agility on September 23, 2026: 11 open, $25 to $36 an hour, 10 with no degree asked, none remote.
Figure AI listed 104 open roles on September 22, 2026, down from 124 a month earlier. We read every posting: 12 hands-on robot jobs list no degree and pay $26 to $32 an hour.
Waymo listed 339 open roles on September 21, 2026, none of them for driving. Here is what it hires for, who hires the people near the cars, and this week’s count across 19 AI employers.
Only 4 of the 20 AI and robotics employers we track had a job alert button on September 20, 2026. Here are the three routes that work, with the exact addresses.
At AI companies on September 19, 2026, the median posted US range for forward deployed engineers was $185,000-$300,000. We read all 89 postings: who pays what, how much travel, and how many years they ask for.
Yes, it is real: on September 17, 2026 xAI had 28 AI Tutor postings on its own board, 21 of them paying $35-$45 an hour. What the job is, the hours, who can apply, and how to spot a fake.
No AI company publishes a pay range for these jobs. We scanned 3,804 open AI roles on September 16, 2026, found 26 hands-on trade jobs, and checked what they actually pay against BLS data.
Anthropic labels 56 of its 596 open roles Remote-Friendly. We read all of them on September 15, 2026: 34 add Travel-Required, 12 name no office, and every one still expects 25% office time.