The Jobs Desk: verified AI, robotics and chip-industry openings in the US, checked against the employer or agency posting, with closing dates.
The median AI job posting band is $70,000 wide — a 1.27x gap. We measured every published range on twenty company boards on September 4, 2026, and the usual explanations do not survive it.
We read every live posting on twenty AI, robotics and self-driving company job boards on September 3, 2026. Four carried a part-time tag and none was open in the US. Thirty others describe part-time work from home at $35 to $100 an hour.
We read every US job posting on twenty AI, robotics and self-driving company boards on September 2, 2026. None named an AI certificate. Here is what they name instead.
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.