GPUs
The parallel processors that train and serve modern models. In a posting, the word marks a role that works close to the hardware.
Hiring data as of November 4, 2026 · refreshed daily
- companies naming it
- 6 of 47companies naming it
- open roles naming it
- 22open roles naming it
- of those based in NYC
- 11of those based in NYC
- pay: under 8 posted ranges
- —pay: under 8 posted ranges
What GPUs means
Graphics processing units run the large matrix operations that neural networks consist of, thousands at a time. Training and serving modern models depends on them, and on the software that makes them usable — CUDA, kernel libraries, and the schedulers that share scarce capacity across teams.
Most AI application engineers never touch a GPU directly; the provider’s API hides it. The people who do are building or optimizing models, running inference infrastructure, or writing the kernels themselves, and that last group is small.
GPUs in New York job posts
6 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name GPUs in at least one open role today, across 22 postings. 11 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.
This is engineering vocabulary: 64% of the postings that name it are Engineering roles.
Modal alone accounts for 12 of the 22 postings, which is why we lead with the company count: one employer’s hiring push should not read as a market trend.
How to read it
A reliable marker of infrastructure, research, or performance roles. It travels with CUDA, vLLM, TensorRT, distributed training, and quantization in the same postings — a cluster that barely overlaps with the agents-and-RAG cluster. Decide which of the two you are before applying to either.
What these roles pay
Not enough data to publish. We need at least eight distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming GPUs before showing a median, and today there are fewer. For posted pay by function and seniority across the whole market, use the NYC salary calculator or the NYC AI engineer salary guide.
Companies naming GPUs, daily
Count of companies with at least one open role naming the term. We read between 46 and 47 companies a day over this period, so a move of one or two is noise.
View as table
| Date | companies |
|---|---|
| 2026-09-20 | 5 |
| 2026-09-21 | 5 |
| 2026-09-22 | 5 |
| 2026-09-23 | 6 |
| 2026-09-24 | 6 |
| 2026-09-25 | 6 |
| 2026-09-26 | 6 |
| 2026-09-27 | 6 |
| 2026-09-28 | 6 |
| 2026-09-29 | 6 |
| 2026-09-30 | 6 |
| 2026-10-01 | 6 |
| 2026-10-02 | 6 |
| 2026-10-03 | 6 |
| 2026-10-04 | 6 |
| 2026-10-05 | 6 |
| 2026-10-06 | 6 |
| 2026-10-07 | 6 |
| 2026-10-08 | 6 |
| 2026-10-09 | 6 |
| 2026-10-10 | 6 |
| 2026-10-11 | 6 |
| 2026-10-12 | 6 |
| 2026-10-13 | 6 |
| 2026-10-14 | 6 |
| 2026-10-15 | 6 |
| 2026-10-16 | 6 |
| 2026-10-17 | 6 |
| 2026-10-18 | 6 |
| 2026-10-19 | 6 |
| 2026-10-20 | 6 |
| 2026-10-21 | 6 |
| 2026-10-22 | 6 |
| 2026-10-23 | 6 |
| 2026-10-24 | 6 |
| 2026-10-25 | 6 |
| 2026-10-26 | 6 |
| 2026-10-27 | 6 |
| 2026-10-28 | 6 |
| 2026-10-29 | 6 |
| 2026-10-30 | 6 |
| 2026-10-31 | 6 |
| 2026-11-01 | 6 |
| 2026-11-02 | 6 |
| 2026-11-03 | 6 |
| 2026-11-04 | 6 |
Who names it
Open roles naming GPUs, by company.
- Modal12
- Normal Computing4
- Mirage (fka Captions)2
- Runway2
- ElevenLabs1
- K Health1
Which roles
The same postings, by function and by seniority.
- Engineering14
- Research5
- Design1
- GTM1
- Other1
- Mid8
- Staff/Principal8
- Entry3
- Senior2
- Manager1
Named alongside GPUs
Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 6 companies pair the two.
- TensorRT 2
- Triton 3
- CUDA 3
- SGLang 2
- Distributed training 2
- vLLM 2
- Quantization and distillation 3
- Rust 4
- Inference 4
- Multimodal AI 2
Open roles naming GPUs
A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.
- AI Research Resident (Algorithms Codesign) ↗Normal Computing · New York
- Forward Deployed Engineer - ML ↗Modal · New York
- Research Engineer, Generative Video ↗Mirage (fka Captions) · Union Square, New York City
- Detection & Response Engineer ↗Runway · Remote
- Research Engineer - Inference ↗ElevenLabs · United Kingdom
- Senior DevOps Engineer ↗K Health · Tel-Aviv, IL
- Thermodynamic Hardware Resident ↗Normal Computing · New York
- Member of Design Staff - Brand ↗Modal · New York
On the AI in NYC Show
- Episode 10: Nvidia vs. AMD and the AI Power Crunch
Doug O’Laughlin, SemiAnalysis
- Episode 7: The Future of AI Hardware
Waleed Atallah, Makora (on air as Mako)
- Episode 33: Refurbished GPUs, Real Infrastructure: Powering the AI Boom
Harris Edelman, Ombligo
How this is counted
Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.
The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.
Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.
GPUs — common questions
What does GPUs mean in an AI job posting?
The parallel processors that train and serve modern models. In a posting, the word marks a role that works close to the hardware. A reliable marker of infrastructure, research, or performance roles. It travels with CUDA, vLLM, TensorRT, distributed training, and quantization in the same postings — a cluster that barely overlaps with the agents-and-RAG cluster. Decide which of the two you are before applying to either.
How many New York AI companies are hiring for GPUs?
As of November 4, 2026, 6 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name GPUs in the description of at least one open role, across 22 postings (11 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.
What do roles that ask for GPUs pay in New York?
We do not publish a pay figure for GPUs yet. Fewer than eight New York postings naming it carry a distinct posted salary range, and below that number a median says more about two or three employers than about the market.
Which skills are asked for alongside GPUs?
In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with GPUs are TensorRT, Triton, CUDA, SGLang, Distributed training. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.
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