Artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the way we live, work, and interact with the world around us. From self-driving cars to virtual assistants, AI is quickly becoming an integral part of our daily lives. And it's going to become more prevalent with each passing day, as some believe the tech will be "as transformative as the Industrial Revolution," if not more so.
While previous decades were defined as an AI winter (where little AI research, development, or funding occurred), much has changed recently -- especially with the release of generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney. That winter chill has officially thawed, with massive influxes of investments pouring both startups and Big Tech giants alike. With all that money and growth, the demand for skilled AI professionals has never been higher.
So, whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting out, there's never been a better time to work in the AI revolution. In this blog post, explore the best AI companies to work for in 2023 and the exciting career opportunities they offer.
1. Reclaim.ai
Reclaim.ai is an AI-powered startup smart calendar app that optimizes and defends the schedules of busy pros and teams. The heart of the company's mission is that priorities --- not random meetings --- should guide your workweek, and your time should be oriented around the stuff that really matters. Reclaim automatically blocks time for your tasks, habits, meetings, and breaks at the best time in your schedule to save up to 40% of your workweek.
Reclaim.ai is a rapidly growing startup backed by some of the top venture firms in the US, including Operator Partners, Index Ventures, Gradient Ventures, and Flying Fish. The AI company is looking for experienced Senior Java Engineers to help develop the smartest, fastest, conversational scheduling experience ever -- along with developing backend services and APIs, evolving Reclaim's persistence layer, integrating into various collaboration platforms, and designing and deploying their cloud infrastructure.
- Hiring job positions: Engineers**
- Company size: 11-50
- Work policy & hours: Remote, flexible hours
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program
- PTO: Unlimited PTO, plus all federal holidays observed
- Salary range: $140k -- $220k
- Equity available: Yes
2. OpenAI
OpenAI is a research organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence in a safe and beneficial manner. The organization was founded in 2015 by a group of tech industry leaders, including Elon Musk and Sam Altman. OpenAI aims to create AI systems capable of understanding natural language, learning from experience, and achieving human-like intelligence.
Recently, OpenAI has been making headlines for its innovative language model, ChatGPT, which can generate human-like responses to text prompts. This breakthrough has sparked excitement among researchers, developers, and businesses who can use ChatGPT to improve customer service, generate content, and automate tasks. It has also set the record for the fastest-growing consumer application in history, with over 100 million monthly active users in just two months. With such monumental growth, it should be no surprise that the company is actively recruiting talented individuals passionate about AI.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Operations, Sales, Legal**
- Company size: 201-500**
- Work policy & hours: Hybrid, some flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program, 4% match
- PTO: Unlimited PTO, 18+ company holidays**
- Salary range: $130k - $450k**
- Equity available: No
3. Grammarly
Grammarly is a tech startup that offers an online writing tool to help users improve their writing skills by detecting and correcting grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and punctuation errors. Its AI-powered assistant is designed to provide reliable suggestions for enhancing the overall quality of the written content. Grammarly is a highly efficient tool that can be used across various platforms, including web browsers, desktop applications, and mobile devices.
The company has recently grown to 30 million monthly active users, and to accommodate its growing user base and expand its services, Grammarly has been actively seeking new talent in various roles. The company has been making significant efforts to acquire skilled professionals in artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and machine learning.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Design, Operations, Marketing, Sales**
- Company size: 501-1,000**
- Work policy & hours: Remote-first hybrid, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program
- PTO: 20 days of vacation accrual, paid sick days & holidays**
- Salary range: $160k - $300K**
- Equity available: Yes
4. Hive
Hive is an AI startup focused on building the next generation of intelligent automation solutions. Specifically, the company offers cloud-based AI solutions for understanding content, providing developers with a portfolio of best-in-class, pre-trained AI models that serve billions of API requests per month.
Hive counts some of the world's largest companies as its customers, who use its AI models to help solve their challenges in content moderation, logo detection, OCR, and more. The company has raised over $120 million in funding from investors such as General Catalyst, 8VC, Tomales Bay Capital, and Glynn Capital, and is hiring in dozens of roles to support its ongoing growth.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, Sales, Legal**
- Company size: 51-200**
- Work policy & hours: Onsite, standard full-time hours**
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: Unknown
- PTO: Paid vacation**
- Salary range: $90k - $300k**
- Equity available: Yes
5. Sanctuary
Sanctuary is a tech startup developing the world's first human-like intelligence in general-purpose robots designed to help people work more safely, efficiently, and sustainably. Their robots aim to make it possible to do a job from anywhere (without being there in person), help address labor shortages worldwide, and assist those who might be less capable of physical work.
Being a startup focused on building learning machines, Sanctuary is actively looking for the world's best AI and ML research engineers, data scientists, software engineers, simulation experts, mechanical engineers, electronics and electrical engineers, and robotics and control engineers.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Operations, Marketing**
- Company size: 51-200**
- Work policy & hours: Remote or onsite, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: Unknown
- PTO: Paid vacation, sick days, & holidays**
- Salary range: $80k - $185k**
- Equity available: Yes
6. Lambda
Lambda is a cloud provider of GPU hardware access for deep learning that is used by dozens of Fortune 500 companies and the leading AI and machine learning researchers. Lambda's hardware and software are optimized for deep learning (one of the most computationally intensive ML techniques), such that the company bills itself as the only public cloud designed for training large language and foundation models.
Lambda is still a fairly early-stage startup that has raised $44 million in a Series B round of funding. However, the company already counts engineers and researchers at the cutting edge of the AI field as customers, including companies like Intel, Microsoft, Amazon Research, Kaiser Permanente, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Caltech, and the Department of Defense. So, Lambda is actively hiring for dozens of different roles to help support its growth.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, Manufacturing**
- Company size: 51-200**
- Work policy & hours: Remote or onsite, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full medical, dental, & vision**
- Retirement: 401k program**
- PTO: Flexible PTO, 12 paid holidays, 5 paid sick days**
- Salary range: $100k - $250k**
- Equity available: Yes
7. Dataiku
Dataiku is a tech unicorn that provides an enterprise AI and machine learning platform for organizations to build and deploy their predictive models. Users are able to collaborate on data projects through the platform, and easily integrate their existing systems so everyone can leverage data and AI everywhere they work. Dataiku's product suite includes data preparation, data visualization, DataOps, AI/ML, and analytics tools.
Dataiku was founded in Paris in 2013 and reached the elusive unicorn status (a private company valued at more than $1 billion) in 2019. The company is backed by many heavyweight investors and partners, including CapitalG, Tiger Global, and Serena, and has raised over $840 million in funding. So, Dataiku is rapidly hiring for dozens of positions across many departments.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, Operations**
- Company size: 1,001-5,000**
- Work policy & hours: Remote or onsite, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full medical, dental, & vision**
- Retirement: 401k program
- PTO: 11 paid holidays, 20 vacation days,
- Salary range: 80k - 200k**
- Equity available: Yes
8. Tessian
Tessian is a tech startup that provides a cloud email security platform to intelligently protect organizations against advanced threats and data loss on email. Using machine learning and behavioral data science, Tessian aims to detect and prevent threats such as phishing, spear-phishing, and other types of social engineering attacks. They work with businesses of all sizes to protect their employees and sensitive information from cyber threats.
Tessian has raised over $120 million from investors such as March Capital, Sequoia, Accel, and Balderton and is growing rapidly, hiring in dozens of engineering, design, product, marketing, sales, and operations roles.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, Marketing, Sales**
- Company size: 201-500**
- Work policy & hours: Remote or onsite, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full medical, dental, & vision**
- Retirement: 401k program, up to 5% match
- PTO: Paid holidays & sick days, 25 days annual leave**
- Salary range: $100k - $300k**
- Equity available: Yes
9. Weights & Biases
Weights & Biases (W&B) is a tech startup that provides a developer-first MLOps platform that offers performance visualization tools for machine learning. As such, W&B is pretty similar to a GitHub for ML models. Their visualization tools can help companies debug, compare, and reproduce their machine learning models, whether it be architecture, hyperparameters, git commits, model weights, GPU usage, and even datasets and predictions.
W&B's product is widely used by AI researchers at companies like OpenAI, Lyft, Github, and MILA and has raised over $200 million in funding. So, the company is actively hiring in a number of roles to grow the product and scale.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales, Legal**
- Company size: 51-200**
- Work policy & hours: Remote, standard full-time hours**
- Insurance: 100% Medical, Dental, & Vision**
- Retirement: 401k program
- PTO: Unlimited PTO**
- Salary range: $100k - $160k**
- Equity available: Yes
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10. Amazon
Amazon is a global tech company specializing in e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence (AI). A company so big, it practically needs no introduction. Founded in 1994 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookstore, Amazon is today one of the largest retailers and cloud providers (AWS) in the world, and extensively uses machine and deep learning across all its areas.
As a result, both Amazon and AWS are heavily investing in AI services, especially with a new platform called Bedrock which aims to give customers access to language models to rival that of OpenAI and Google. So, Amazon is looking for software engineers, development managers, product managers, and scientists to help expand and build tools across their AI stack.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Operations, Research, Administration**
- Company size: +1,500,000**
- Work policy & hours: Onsite, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program, 2% match
- PTO: Accrued on a per-pay-period basis**
- Salary range: $110k - $350k**
- Equity available: Yes
11. NVIDIA
NVIDIA is a world-renowned technology company specializing in graphics processing units (GPUs) and artificial intelligence (AI). The company has been at the forefront of AI research and development for years and has made significant contributions to the field. NVIDIA's GPUs are widely used to train deep learning models, and the company has developed software and hardware solutions to optimize AI workflows.
Just this year, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced several partnerships with Google, Microsoft, and Oracle, among others, to bring new AI, simulation, and collaboration capabilities to every industry. With this massive investment in partnerships, NVIDIA is actively recruiting top AI talent to help scale its AI efforts.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Data & Analytics, Research, Sales**
- Company size: +25,000**
- Work policy & hours: Remote or onsite, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program, dollar-for-dollar match every pay period (up to $6,000)
- PTO: Flexible PTO, all federal holidays observed**
- Salary range: $150k - $300k+
- Equity available: Yes
12. IBM
IBM is a global tech company that provides hardware, software, and consulting services. In recent years, IBM has focused on artificial intelligence (AI) and has made significant strides in the field. Jeopardy! fans may already be familiar, as IBM's Watson, a natural language question-answering system, competed and beat two of the game show's greatest champions in 2011.
However, IBM offers many other business-grade AI products and analytics solutions designed to streamline the implementation of AI, ensure a solid data infrastructure, and prioritize positive results and ethical practices. Researchers at the company are developing the next generation of AI software and hardware advances to enterprise AI, and are actively recruiting AI talent in various roles to help them reach their goals.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, Data & Analytics, Research, Sales**
- Company size: +200,000**
- Work policy & hours: Remote or onsite, flexible hours
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program, 5% match
- PTO: Accrued on a per pay-period basis**
- Salary range: $100k - $250k**
- Equity available: Yes
13. Alphabet (Google)
Alphabet Inc is a global conglomerate (and parent company of Google) focusing on internet-related services, products, computer software, and hardware. Alphabet has also long been involved in developing artificial intelligence (AI) through its collaboration with DeepMind, a London-based AI research company that Google acquired in 2014. DeepMind's research focuses on developing AI systems that can learn and improve independently, without human intervention. This includes applications in machine learning, natural language processing, and robotics.
Recently, in the ongoing AI race across tech, Alphabet merged DeepMind with Google Brain to accelerate progress in AI, notably prioritizing the development and release of Bard, a ChatGPT competitor. Alphabet is ramping up its acquisition of top AI talent, hiring for positions in dozens of departments.
- Hiring jobs positions: Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, Sales, Administration, Legal**
- Company size: +190,000**
- Work policy & hours: Onsite, standard full-time hours
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program, matches 50% up to 3%
- PTO: Minimum 20 vacation days per year, unlimited sick days, and all federal holidays observed**
- Salary range: $100k - $300k**
- Equity available: Yes
14. Microsoft
Microsoft is a technology giant that has been around since 1975. The company is best known for its Windows operating system, Office suite, and Xbox consoles. In recent years, Microsoft has invested heavily in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to develop next-generation products and services.
One of Microsoft's significant partnerships in the AI space is with OpenAI, a research organization focused on developing safe AI technologies. Microsoft first invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019. However, this investment has since grown to $13 billion, signaling an extended partnership to build new AI models and tools. OpenAI also uses Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to develop and test its AI models. Given such a massive financial stake in developing AI, the company is actively looking to acquire the top AI talent.
- Hiring job positions: Engineering, Product, Design, Operations, Sales, Administration, Legal
- Company size: +200,000**
- Work policy & hours: Hybrid, flexible hours**
- Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
- Retirement: 401k program, match up to $11,250 per year
- PTO: Unlimited PTO, plus all federal holidays observed**
- Salary range: $100k - $350k**
- Equity available: Yes
15. Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that provides strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations services. Just this week, the company announced a $3 billion investment over the span of three years in its Data & AI practice to help its clients rapidly and responsibly advance and use AI to support their growth, efficiency, and resilience.
But this investment isn't the first time Accenture has dipped its toes in AI waters. The company holds over 1,450 AI patents and pending applications worldwide, and a portfolio of client solutions that spans a wide range of industries. And to support their new and ongoing efforts to develop and provide AI services, Accenture is currently hiring for various roles.
- Hiring jobs positions: Engineering, Design, Strategy, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Administration, Legal**
Company size: +650,000**
Work policy & hours: Remote or onsite, flexible hours**
Insurance: Full health, dental, & vision benefits**
Retirement: 401k program, $1 for $1 match up to 6%
PTO: 17 - 27 days of PTO, 8 standard holidays, and 2 culture days**
Salary range: $40K - $200k**
Equity available: Yes
Shape AI's future at top companies hiring now 🤖
AI is transforming the job market much as its revolutionizing our society. From cutting-edge tech startups to established industry leaders, these companies offer exciting roles for those looking to work in the field, and there's no shortage of opportunities to learn and grow with these top AI companies. With their innovative technologies and forward-thinking cultures, they will undoubtedly shape AI's future and beyond.
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