The Jobs Desk · checked every morning
Real openings. Real pay bands. Checked today.
AI, robotics and chip-industry jobs in the US, read straight from the employer’s own board or the federal posting — with the closing date and the pay range whenever it is published. Tell the desk what you need below and we look it up for you.
30-second tour · what this page is for
3,716 AI jobs, counted this morning.
- Twenty official boards — Read from employers’ own feeds — no aggregators, no guessing.
- 2,173 print a salary — So you can see the real pay band before you apply.
- Entry level, listed — Roles that ask for a diploma and effort, not a PhD.
Most job pages show you a number. This desk shows you the posting — who is hiring, for what, where, the pay band if they published one, and when it closes. Every morning we read the employers’ own boards and the federal announcements, count what is actually open, and write up what changed.
Company boards
Twenty AI, robotics and autonomy employers — OpenAI, Anthropic, Waymo, Figure, xAI and more — pulled from their own job boards, not from aggregators. Every link goes to the employer’s page.
Government & labs
USAJOBS announcements with grade and closing date, plus the 17 Department of Energy national laboratories, which hire directly on their own sites.
Entry-level & part-time
Technician, apprentice and intern roles, legitimate part-time and contract work, and the pay band when the employer publishes one.
The scam filter
No posting appears here unless it lives on the employer’s or the agency’s own domain. We never charge, never recruit, never email you offers.
Latest from the desk
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- Is Anthropic Hiring Right Now? 571 Open Roles, +55 in Seven Days (Aug. 31, 2026)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.
- Should I Put ChatGPT on My Resume? We Counted 2,930 AI Job Postings (August 2026)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.
- Which AI Company Pays the Most? We Read 2,144 Posted Salary Ranges (August 2026)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.
- xAI Memphis Jobs and Salary: Only 3 of 112 Postings Publish Pay (Aug. 28, 2026)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.
- Are AI Training Jobs Legit? We Counted 3,681 Real Openings (August 2026)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.
- Do You Need a Degree to Be a Robotics Technician? What All 55 Open Robot Technician Postings Actually Require (August 2026)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.
- How to Get a Federal Job With No Experience: What 102 Open AI and Engineering Listings Actually Require (August 2026)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.
- How to Become a Data Center Technician With No Experience: What 50 Live AI Job Postings Require (August 2026)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.
- How to Get a Job at OpenAI or Anthropic: What 1,268 Open Postings Actually SayWe 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.
- Will AI Take My Job? The Honest August 2026 Answer in 7 Numbers, Plus a 5-Minute Test for YoursAI is not taking jobs from the economy (61,000 added a month, layoffs at a two-year low) but it is taking first jobs from 22-to-25-year-olds in entry-level white-collar jobs (a 19% hiring gap). Seven sourced numbers, the rehiring nobody searches for, and a five-minute test for your own job.
- National Laboratory Jobs, No Degree: What All 126 Oak Ridge Postings Actually SayWe opened every one of the 126 open postings at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and read the education line on each. Nineteen let experience replace the degree – and ten of those nineteen run the supercomputers.
Thirty seconds, on your phone
Two of the desk’s pieces, rebuilt as tap-through stories. Same numbers, same sources — just the version you can get through while the coffee is still hot.
The Monday count, in your inbox
One email a week: how many AI jobs are open across the 20 boards we count, what moved, and the entry-level picture — the same numbers on this page, dated and citable. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.
The live numbers
Every figure in this article comes from a count we run each morning. The current reading — open roles by company, published pay bands, US locations and the entry-level list — is on one page, updated daily and free to cite.
Ask the desk
Looking for something specific — part-time work you can do from home, a technician job near your town, the first step into robotics without a degree, a federal role in your field? Describe it in plain words. Each day we research the open requests and post what we found: real postings with links, the pay band if published, and an honest note when the market is thin. We use only your first name. We never email you offers, never ask for a fee, and never share your details with anyone.
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Before you apply anywhere: four rules that stop almost every job scam
- Never pay to get a job. No training fee, no equipment deposit, no “background-check” charge. A real employer pays you.
- Never deposit a check and send money back. The check bounces weeks later; the money you sent is gone.
- A job offer by text from a number you never contacted is not an offer. Real recruiters can be checked on the employer’s own site.
- Apply only on the employer’s or the agency’s own domain. Every link on this desk goes there — if an email sends you somewhere else, stop.
If something already went wrong: report it at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. Our guide to the newest AI-driven scams is here.
Where we look, and what we promise
Company boards we scan: OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Google DeepMind (US board), Scale AI, Mercor, Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra, ElevenLabs, Cursor, Cognition, Replit, Figure AI, Apptronik, Agility Robotics, 1X, Physical Intelligence, Waymo and Nuro — read through the public job-board feeds each company publishes, so titles, locations, dates and pay ranges are exactly what the employer posted.
Government and research: USAJOBS (every federal announcement, with grade and closing date), the 17 DOE national laboratories (they hire on their own sites, not USAJOBS), Apprenticeship.gov, and the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook for pay and growth figures.
What this desk is not: we are not recruiters, we take no money from employers, and a posting can close the hour after we check it. The official page always wins.