NYC ecosystem · Jobs refreshed August 11, 2026

The AI companies of New York — and who’s hiring right now

A curated map of the city’s AI ecosystem, built from the companies we know through the AI in NYC Show and the wider set any honest map has to include. Between them: 434 open roles, 295 in New York, pulled live from their own job boards.

Why New York:the city has become the second capital of applied AI — not by competing with San Francisco’s labs, but by owning the industries where AI meets money: finance, enterprise software, healthcare, media, and law. That mix shapes everything on this page. The companies skew applied over research, revenue over demos — and the hiring bar skews toward engineers who ship, which is the same bar our network vets against. Salaries run 15–25% above national bands (full numbers in the salary guide).

Two ways to use this page: engineers — the live board below links straight to real application pages, no aggregator in between. Companies — this is your competitive hiring landscape, updated daily.

Hiring now: the live board

Open roles fetched daily from each company’s own job-board API, ranked by hiring volume. Every link goes to the company’s application page.

Ramp

128 open roles · 98 in NYC

Finance automation platform and one of the largest AI engineering organizations in New York.

+124 more roles →

Rogo

77 open roles · 52 in NYC

The AI analyst for investment banking and private equity — finance-native LLM systems.

+73 more roles →

Clay

73 open roles · 56 in NYC

AI-powered go-to-market and data enrichment — among the city’s fastest-growing AI startups.

+69 more roles →

Runway

40 open roles · 3 in NYC

Generative video models and creative tooling — NYC’s frontier-adjacent research lab.

+36 more roles →

K Health

23 open roles · 12 in NYC

Clinical AI for primary care, trained on decades of medical records.

+19 more roles →

Hebbia

22 open roles · 22 in NYC

AI document intelligence for finance and legal — deep retrieval over complex filings.

+18 more roles →

EvolutionIQ

21 open roles · 20 in NYC

AI claims guidance for disability and injury insurance, acquired by CCC in 2024.

+17 more roles →

Normal Computing

20 open roles · 16 in NYC

Physics-based AI chips and probabilistic computing research.

+16 more roles →

Pinecone

8 open roles · 5 in NYC

The vector database powering retrieval for AI applications everywhere.

+4 more roles →

Reality Defender

6 open roles · 5 in NYC · AI in NYC Show Ep 9

Deepfake detection for banks, governments, and platforms — AI security at the media layer.

+2 more roles →

Preql

5 open roles · 3 in NYC · AI in NYC Show Ep 23

Agentic enterprise data platform turning business logic into governed metrics.

+1 more roles →

Aescape

3 open roles · 2 in NYC · AI in NYC Show Ep 3

AI-powered robotic massage — hardware, ML, and touch in one of the city’s most physical AI products.

Datum

3 open roles · AI in NYC Show Ep 19

Open network cloud infrastructure built for AI-era workloads.

The Deep View

2 open roles · AI in NYC Show Ep 11

One of the largest AI newsletters — media built on the industry it covers.

Arthur

2 open roles · 1 in NYC

ML observability and evaluation — the quality layer for production AI.

DataKind

1 open roles · AI in NYC Show Ep 8

Nonprofit deploying data science and AI with social-impact organizations worldwide.

The full map

Every company we track, including those whose hiring runs outside an accessible job API. Companies marked with an episode appeared on the AI in NYC Show.

CompanyWhat they buildSectorStageCareers
Collective[i]Show Ep 2AI sales intelligence — forecasting and CRM automation for B2B revenue teams, self-funded by design since 2008.Sales intelligenceSelf-fundedCareers →
AescapeShow Ep 3AI-powered robotic massage — hardware, ML, and touch in one of the city’s most physical AI products.Robotics / wellnessSeries A3 roles
DataKindShow Ep 8Nonprofit deploying data science and AI with social-impact organizations worldwide.AI for goodNonprofit1 roles
Reality DefenderShow Ep 9Deepfake detection for banks, governments, and platforms — AI security at the media layer.AI securitySeries A6 roles
The Deep ViewShow Ep 11One of the largest AI newsletters — media built on the industry it covers.AI mediaBootstrapped2 roles
DatumShow Ep 19Open network cloud infrastructure built for AI-era workloads.AI infrastructureSeed3 roles
PreqlShow Ep 23Agentic enterprise data platform turning business logic into governed metrics.Data / agentsSeed5 roles
MakoraShow Ep 7Automated GPU kernel optimization — AI compilers attacking the scarcest skill in software.GPU / compilersSeedCareers →
SemiAnalysisShow Ep 10The research shop the AI-infrastructure world reads on semiconductors and datacenters.Research / mediaBootstrappedCareers →
KoopShow Ep 12AI compliance and insurance for autonomy and robotics companies.Insurance / complianceSeedCareers →
Dimer HealthShow Ep 13AI-powered post-discharge care keeping patients out of readmission.Healthcare AISeries ACareers →
Mastercard (AI & Data)Show Ep 17The AI and data organization inside the payments giant — enterprise-scale ML in production.Fintech / paymentsPublicCareers →
Cooley LLPShow Ep 18Technology law firm hiring internal AI engineers — the professional-services side of the boom.LegalAmLaw 50Careers →
Panasonic WellShow Ep 22AI wellness incubator inside the electronics conglomerate, hiring staff AI engineers.Consumer AICorporate ventureCareers →
Zo ComputerShow Ep 29AI personal cloud computing — a server of your own that works for you.Consumer AIVenture-backedCareers →
OmbligoShow Ep 33GPU and IT asset refurbishment — the hardware-lifecycle side of the AI boom.HardwareBootstrappedCareers →
DatamaticsShow Ep 34Global IT services and intelligent automation — enterprise AI delivery at scale.IT servicesPublicCareers →
RampFinance automation platform and one of the largest AI engineering organizations in New York.FintechLate stage128 roles
RunwayGenerative video models and creative tooling — NYC’s frontier-adjacent research lab.Generative mediaLate stage40 roles
ClayAI-powered go-to-market and data enrichment — among the city’s fastest-growing AI startups.GTM / dataLate stage73 roles
RogoThe AI analyst for investment banking and private equity — finance-native LLM systems.Finance AISeries B77 roles
HebbiaAI document intelligence for finance and legal — deep retrieval over complex filings.Enterprise AISeries B22 roles
PineconeThe vector database powering retrieval for AI applications everywhere.AI infrastructureSeries B8 roles
Normal ComputingPhysics-based AI chips and probabilistic computing research.AI hardwareVenture-backed20 roles
ArthurML observability and evaluation — the quality layer for production AI.ML toolingVenture-backed2 roles
EvolutionIQAI claims guidance for disability and injury insurance, acquired by CCC in 2024.Insurance AIAcquired (CCC)21 roles
K HealthClinical AI for primary care, trained on decades of medical records.Healthcare AILate stage23 roles
Hugging FaceThe open-source AI platform — founded in New York, now the industry’s model commons.AI platformLate stageCareers →
Spring HealthPrecision mental healthcare using ML-personalized care matching.Healthcare AILate stageCareers →

About the AI in NYC Show

Much of this map comes from the interview chair: the AI in NYC Show brings on the founders, builders, and investors shaping the city’s AI ecosystem — from GPU-kernel startups to the AI practices inside Mastercard and AmLaw 50 firms. The show is where we meet the ecosystem; this page is where the ecosystem’s hiring reality lives between episodes.

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Frequently asked questions

What are the top AI companies in NYC in 2026?+

New York’s AI landscape spans frontier-adjacent labs (Runway), AI-native scale-ups (Ramp, Clay, Hebbia, Rogo), infrastructure (Pinecone, Datum, Normal Computing), applied vertical AI (Reality Defender, K Health, Dimer Health, EvolutionIQ), and enterprise AI organizations inside giants like Mastercard. This page curates roughly thirty of them with stage, focus, and live hiring data.

Who is hiring AI engineers in NYC right now?+

The live board on this page pulls open roles daily from each company’s own job board API, so the answer stays current — at recent refresh, Ramp, Clay, and Rogo carried the most open NYC roles. For what those roles pay, see our AI engineer salary guide; New York runs 15–25% above national bands.

How is this list curated?+

Two sources: companies featured on the AI in NYC Show — whose founders and operators we know from the interview chair — and the wider set of AI-native New York companies significant enough that any map of the ecosystem would be incomplete without them. It is a judgment-based list, not a pay-to-play directory.

Is NYC or San Francisco better for AI jobs?+

San Francisco remains the deepest market; New York is the fastest-growing second hub and leads where AI meets finance, enterprise, healthcare, media, and law. NYC salaries run 15–25% above national bands versus SF’s 20–30% — and adjusted for the industries hiring here, New York often offers more paths in at equal seniority.

How current is the jobs data on this page?+

Open-role counts and listings are fetched from each company’s public job-board API (Greenhouse or Ashby) and refresh roughly daily. Companies without an accessible API are listed with a direct careers link instead. Every role links to the company’s own application page — we are not a middleman on these listings.