Frontier Hiring Pulse #3: a nearly flat board with 155 roles in motion, and engineering falls hardest

Every figure below is computed from superintelligence.jobs /api/careers and reproducible with scripts/pulse-stats.mjs in our public repo. Snapshot: 2026-11-02T17:40:02.182Z, 2,417 open roles across 48 organizations — compared against the previous issue's snapshot.

1. Board movement

Net change since the last issue: -11 roles (2,428 → 2,417). But 155 roles appeared for the first time this period, implying roughly 166 roles closed, were filled, or disappeared. Weekly churn on the index is 6.4% — the headline number is the rounding error on top of a board where about one role in 16 rotates every week.

2. Categories

Category	Now	Last	Δ
Engineering	813	819	-6
Go-to-market	429	433	-4
Infrastructure	367	364	+3
People & Business Operations	252	254	-2
Safety & Policy	220	223	-3
Research	213	213	0
Product & Design	123	122	+1

Meaningful moves (≥3 roles): Infrastructure +3 (up);Safety & Policy -3 (down);Go-to-market -4 (down);Engineering -6 (down).

3. Organizations (top 10)

Organization	Open roles	Share	Δ
OpenAI	783	32.4%	-8
Anthropic	567	23.5%	-2
Mistral AI	224	9.3%	-1
Wayve	172	7.1%	0
Cohere	117	4.8%	-3
Cerebras	112	4.6%	-1
Tenstorrent	109	4.5%	+2
1X	97	4.0%	0
Fireworks AI	90	3.7%	+2
Thinking Machines Lab	53	2.2%	0

4. Comp bands

Median posted bands (listings that publish one: 894, 37% of the board, vs 37.1% last issue):

Category	n	Last issue	Now
Research	82	$266K – $424K	$266K – $424K
Safety & Policy	86	$252K – $383K	$252K – $360K
Infrastructure	149	$230K – $382K	$230K – $385K
Engineering	309	$235K – $335.3K	$234K – $335K
Product & Design	57	$227K – $310K	$226K – $300K
Go-to-market	123	$221K – $275K	$221K – $276K
People & Business Operations	88	$216K – $250K	$216K – $251K

Disclosure rates held roughly steady across organizations.

5. Safety-hiring watch

Safety & Policy now sits at 9.1% of the board (220 of 2,417). Largest org-level moves: OpenAI 59 (-3), 1X 2 (0), Anthropic 79 (0).

6. Remote share

138 of 2,417 roles (5.7%) are remote. The standing outlier: Cohere at 75 of 117 openings (64.1%) remote.

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Methodology

Computed from the live /api/careers snapshot at 2026-11-02T17:40:02.182Z: roles with status = "open" and publiclyListed = true, deduplicated by requisition id; "new" by firstSeenAt. Reproduce every figure with scripts/pulse-stats.mjs in our public repo. Comp medians parse employer-supplied band text; equity excluded. The index covers 48 organizations chosen for frontier-model or frontier-infrastructure work; it is not the whole AI labor market and does not claim to be. This issue was generated automatically from feed data; the numbers have the same provenance as the manual issues, and the method is public.

Reuse: all figures are free to cite with attribution to superintelligence.jobs and a link to this page. Agents: GET /api/careers, MCP at /mcp, contract at skill.md.