| 1 | AnthropicAnthropic is an AI safety and research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, including Claude. It serves users and society through research and development of AI systems designed to be safe and beneficial. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $403k | Open jobs 300 |
| 2 | AaruAaru provides behavior simulation and predictive intelligence for organizations making strategic decisions. It builds simulated populations grounded in real-world behavior to test products, pricing, messaging, audience responses, market strategies, and communications before implementation. | NYC | Median US Salary $400k | Open jobs 14 |
| 3 | OpenAIOpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and deployment company. It develops AI models, tools, and products, including ChatGPT, for developers, businesses, and researchers. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $356k | Open jobs 403 |
| 4 | Thinking MachinesThinking Machines Lab is an artificial intelligence research and product company. It develops AI systems, infrastructure, and tools designed to be more understandable, customizable, multimodal, and collaborative for broad public use. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $350k | Open jobs 24 |
| 5 | MercorMercor organizes human expertise to support the AI economy. It provides human data, evaluations, benchmarks, and training infrastructure for frontier AI research, AI agent development, and enterprise use, serving AI labs and businesses across professional services, medicine, and software engineering. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $330k | Open jobs 53 |
| 6 | PerplexityPerplexity provides an AI-powered answer engine that helps people turn knowledge into action. It develops agent systems and product capabilities that support complex tasks for users and AI agents. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $313k | Open jobs 64 |
| 7 | xAISpaceXAI builds Grok, a set of frontier AI models for reasoning, voice, image generation, and other capabilities. It provides developers with a unified API for text, code, voice, images, and video. | Memphis | Median US Salary $310k | Open jobs 156 |
| 8 | SierraSierra provides a conversational AI platform that helps businesses build and deploy customer-facing AI agents across chat, SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, and other channels. Its capabilities include agent creation, performance analysis, workflow automation, and outcome optimization. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $310k | Open jobs 56 |
| 9 | InferactInferact develops open-source AI inference infrastructure centered on vLLM, an engine for serving large language models. It supports model developers, hardware vendors, and organizations deploying AI systems by improving inference performance, hardware support, and model architecture coverage. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $300k | Open jobs 22 |
| 10 | TuringTuring provides datasets, reinforcement-learning environments, research benchmarks, and expert talent to frontier AI labs. It also helps enterprises deploy, manage, and scale agentic AI systems in production through forward-deployed engineers and an AI control platform. | United States | Median US Salary $300k | Open jobs 20 |
| 11 | Periodic LabsPeriodic Labs is an AI and physical sciences company building models to accelerate scientific breakthroughs in materials, energy, and related fields. Its work connects computational methods with physical science research. | Menlo Park | Median US Salary $300k | Open jobs 17 |
| 12 | MonacoMonaco provides an AI-native revenue platform for startups and their founders. It builds target markets, runs outbound sales, records customer interactions, and manages pipelines in one system. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $300k | Open jobs 5 |
| 13 | Luma AILuma AI is a creative AI platform that provides video generation, image creation, and multimodal creative agents. It serves creative teams and supports workflows across video, image, audio, and text, with models and tools for generating, directing, refining, and maintaining brand consistency. | Remote | Median US Salary $295k | Open jobs 16 |
| 14 | GeneralistGeneralist is an AI research and product company developing general intelligence for the physical world. It builds embodied foundation models and autonomous robots designed to learn tasks and interact with physical environments across settings such as factories, warehouses, laboratories, farms, homes, and space. | Boston | Median US Salary $295k | Open jobs 12 |
| 15 | World LabsWorld Labs is a spatial intelligence company building AI models that perceive, generate, reason about, and interact with virtual and physical worlds. Its Marble product generates navigable, editable 3D worlds from text, images, video, and 360-degree panoramas, with export options for 2D and 3D workflows. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $288k | Open jobs 7 |
| 16 | CohereCohere builds enterprise AI models and solutions that help organizations automate processes, support employees, and derive insights from fragmented data. Its capabilities include private, on-premises, managed, and customizable deployments. | International | Median US Salary $285k | Open jobs 55 |
| 17 | Wispr FlowWispr Flow provides AI-powered voice dictation that converts speech into polished text across apps and devices. It supports writing, messaging, coding, and team or enterprise use, with multilingual dictation and administrative controls. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $285k | Open jobs 21 |
| 18 | RogoRogo provides AI agents and a platform built for financial institutions. It helps finance teams execute workflows across deals and investments, using connected firm data to produce outputs such as financial models, investment memos, diligence materials, and slide decks. | New York | Median US Salary $283k | Open jobs 13 |
| 19 | CognitionCognition operates Devin, an autonomous AI software engineer that plans, writes, tests, and ships production code within existing development workflows. It provides software creation tools for engineers and organizations, including coding agents and benchmarks for evaluating code quality and mergeability. | San Francisco | Median US Salary $280k | Open jobs 20 |
| 20 | RunwayRunway develops foundational Real-World Intelligence that can understand, simulate, and act in the world. Its products serve individuals, creative teams, developers, and organizations through tools for generating and editing video, images, and audio, accessing AI models via APIs, and running policy inference through photorealistic simulation. | Remote | Median US Salary $280k | Open jobs 11 |