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The Heat Check · October 23, 2026

Sierra is on a hiring surge: 39 roles opened this week (vs 5 the week before)

1,269 new AI roles went up this week, and 21 companies started a new team or hit a hiring surge. Here's who's really hiring, and what they pay.

1,269new AI roles that week
26new teams and surges
48%of listings open 60+ days

1. Top 5 signals

2. Who's hiring fastest: new roles

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#Company8 weeksNew 7dNew 30dOpen
1
SA
Shield AI
Robotics
+41 ▼+196 ▲661
2
GR
Graphcore
AI hardware
+36 ▲+76 ▲209
3
SI
Sierra
AI app
+26 ▲+59 ▲212
4
AN
Anthropic
AI lab
+23 ▼+169 ▲684
5
NE
Nebius
AI infra
+16 ▼+100 ▲383
6
NC
Normal Computing
AI hardware
+15 ▲+21 ▲37
7
HA
Harvey
AI app
+9 ▼+132 ▲348
8
LE
Legora
AI app
+9 ▼+91 ▲310

3. Salary snapshot

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Account executive
$181K–$324K med $278K · n=238
Research scientist
$221K–$349K med $276K · n=290
ML engineer
$211K–$294K med $245K · n=383
Software engineer
$205K–$302K med $240K · n=1373
Product designer
$198K–$267K med $238K · n=80

Bars show p25–p75 of posted US base pay; the tick is the median.

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