Who is building AI in New York — and who they are hiring.
We read the job boards of every serious AI company in the city, every morning, and publish what we find. Who is hiring, what they pay, who is funded, and where the room is tonight — free, and updated before you are.
No paywall on the data. Written by operators who have built, hired for, and backed AI companies.
The Hiring Index
August 17, 2026
1,550
open AI roles across 48 New York companies
- Located in NYC
- 734
- Remote-eligible
- 265
- Largest function
- 530 GTM
- Forward deployed
- 40
Four questions, answered continuously
Everything we publish sits under one of these. No press releases, no vendor round-ups — just the state of the city’s AI economy, kept current.
Companies
The NYC AI 100
The hundred AI companies that matter in New York — tiered, sourced, and revised annually, with exits and out-of-town outposts tracked separately.
Jobs
Who is hiring today
Every live opening at the city’s AI companies, pulled each morning from their own job boards. No aggregator lag, no expired listings.
Pay
What the work pays
Salary and rate benchmarks for AI engineers, ML engineers, and consultants — plus a rate calculator and a guide to negotiating an offer.
Events
Where the city gathers
The meetups, demo nights, and conferences worth the subway ride, refreshed monthly so the calendar is never a graveyard.
The Hiring Index
A job posting disappears the day it is filled. We write it down first.
Every morning we take a census of the city’s AI openings and classify each one by function, seniority, and workplace. Because we track roles from the day they appear to the day they vanish, we can publish time-to-fill — which no public source reports for this market. None of it can be reconstructed later, which is why we started.
By function
- GTM530
- Engineering474
- Operations98
- Product77
By seniority
- Mid801
- Senior303
- Staff/Principal189
- Manager106
Titles that did not exist
- Forward deployed40
- AI engineer10
- Solutions architect8
Snapshot of August 17, 2026, across 48 companies. Browse the underlying roles.
Why we read it this way
We are in this market, not watching it.
This index is built by people who have started companies, sold one, hired for these exact roles, and backed more than a hundred AI startups with their own money.
That is not a credential to wave around. It is the reason the data is cut the way it is. When we track how long a role stays open, which function a company staffs first, or which model provider spreads across boards, we are looking for the signals we would want as an operator deciding what to build — or as an investor deciding what to back.
A job board counts postings. We are trying to read what the postings mean, and we have skin in whether that reading is right.
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- Which companies opened roles, measured like-for-like
- What each function actually posts — engineering runs a $217,500 median
- The titles appearing that did not exist two years ago
- Time-to-fill, once the closures support a number
Read it first — issue #1: New York's AI companies are hiring more salespeople than engineers, or browse every issue and the method.