Who is actually hiring.

Three hiring surfaces, one table: what companies claim on their sites, what their job boards show, and what they FILE with the Department of Labor. The filed layer is the edge - visa-sponsored hiring is a leading proxy for engineering intent, and nobody else joins it to the private market.

derived 2026-10-28 09:20 UTC - every number recomputed at render

THE FILED SURGE

2.6x

840 certified visa-sponsored filings across 31 tracked companies in FY2026 through 2026-03, vs 322 in all of FY2025.

8 RECEIPTS

databricks FY2026: 178 filings (2.6x YoY)

openai FY2026: 137 filings (5.3x YoY)

anthropic FY2026: 121 filings (2.3x YoY)

stripe FY2026: 83 filings (1.4x YoY)

crusoe FY2026: 62 filings (4.4x YoY)

groq FY2026: 36 filings (2.1x YoY)

scale_ai FY2026: 34 filings (2.8x YoY)

tenstorrent FY2026: 26 filings (2.4x YoY)

per DOL LCA disclosure files - filed, not announced

THE SENIORITY SHIFT

73%

of filings at the 19 companies with a readable mix (8+ filings) sit at wage Level III+ - senior - 812 filings.

8 RECEIPTS

perplexity 100% senior of 10

plaid 100% senior of 12

harvey 91% senior of 11

anthropic 89% senior of 121 (was 96%)

lambda 88% senior of 8

crusoe 87% senior of 62 (was 100%)

apptronik 83% senior of 12

tenstorrent 81% senior of 26 (was 91%)

filed wage levels, not titles

THE COMP FLOOR

$193,100

median offered wage across the cohort's latest filings (843 wage rows) - the legal floor each company filed, not a survey.

8 RECEIPTS

xai $300,000 median of 24 filings

openai $283,200 median of 137 filings

lambda $274,414 median of 8 filings

groq $253,000 median of 36 filings

mistral $225,000 median of 12 filings

crusoe $220,000 median of 62 filings

scale_ai $215,000 median of 34 filings

harvey $213,512 median of 11 filings

per DOL LCA disclosure files

THE BOARD CENSUS

series starts 2026-10-25

board counts were overwrite-only until this ledger; the weekly advance/decline line arms after four weeks of banked history.

the honesty slot - no backfill exists

THE OUTFLOW

2,773

employees in tracked reduction notices (0 filed 8-K Item 2.05, 33 WARN-matched to the graph).

6 RECEIPTS

oracle WARN notice 2026-09-14, 279 emp - no tracked board (incumbent outside the vacancy corpus)

netflix WARN notice 2026-10-16, 267 emp - no tracked board (incumbent outside the vacancy corpus)

ebay WARN notice 2026-10-21, 229 emp - no tracked board (incumbent outside the vacancy corpus)

netflix WARN notice 2026-10-16, 227 emp - no tracked board (incumbent outside the vacancy corpus)

airtable WARN notice 2026-10-15, 190 emp - no tracked board (incumbent outside the vacancy corpus)

uber WARN notice 2026-09-02, 151 emp - no tracked board (incumbent outside the vacancy corpus)

per SEC 8-K Item 2.05 + state WARN filings - a floor, never a total

The ledger - claim vs board vs filed

company	claimed eng headcount	open board roles	LCA filings, latest FY	filed growth
Databricks	n/a	899	178	2.6x
OpenAI	n/a	796	137	5.3x
Anthropic	n/a	679	121	2.3x
Stripe	n/a	711	83	1.4x
Crusoe	n/a	349	62	4.4x
Scale AI	n/a	166	34	2.8x
Tenstorrent	n/a	121	26	2.4x
xai	n/a	298	24	1.6x
together	n/a	85	14	7.0x
Apptronik	n/a	84	12	n/a
Plaid	n/a	130	12	2.4x
sambanova	n/a	63	12	4.0x
Harvey	n/a	365	11	5.5x
Ramp	n/a	173	11	1.6x
perplexity	n/a	132	10	5.0x
Nscale	n/a	288	9	n/a
Lambda	n/a	99	8	1.3x
Figure	n/a	103	7	7.0x
Canva	n/a	26	4	0.8x
thinking_machines	n/a	50	4	1.0x
Linear	n/a	32	2	n/a
boom	n/a	12	1	n/a
Etched	400	116	1	n/a
Shield AI	n/a	664	1	1.0x
1X Technologies	n/a	102	none	n/a
Agility Robotics	n/a	70	none	n/a
AI21 Labs	n/a	3	none	n/a
Aidoc	n/a	34	none	n/a
Air Company	n/a	unknown	none	n/a
Airbyte	n/a	13	none	n/a
Aircall	n/a	unknown	none	n/a
Airship	n/a	18	none	n/a
Altos Labs	n/a	17	none	n/a
Ambience Healthcare	n/a	19	none	n/a
AMI Labs	n/a	6	none	n/a
Anduril Industries	n/a	2,505	none	n/a
Apex Space	n/a	129	none	n/a
AppDirect	n/a	1	none	n/a
Applied Intuition	n/a	325	none	n/a
AppZen	n/a	17	none	n/a
Aqua Security	n/a	3	none	n/a
Arena Intelligence	n/a	19	none	n/a
Arrive Health	n/a	7	none	n/a
Atom Computing	n/a	41	none	n/a
Aurora Solar	n/a	12	none	n/a
AVA Labs	n/a	4	none	n/a
Base Power	n/a	1	none	n/a
BioIntellisense	n/a	6	none	n/a
Bland AI	n/a	15	none	n/a
Built Robotics	n/a	7	none	n/a
Capstan Medical	n/a	23	none	n/a
Castelion	n/a	4	none	n/a
Catena Labs	n/a	4	none	n/a
cerebras	n/a	119	none	n/a
Character AI	n/a	13	none	n/a
Chipper Cash	n/a	1	none	n/a
Clarify Health	n/a	4	none	n/a
Coactive AI	n/a	1	none	n/a
Coco Robotics	n/a	7	none	n/a
Cognition	n/a	105	none	n/a

156 MORE COMPANIES - claim/board only, no filed record yet

Cohere: claimed n/a / board 116

Cohere Health: claimed n/a / board 69

Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences: claimed n/a / board 18

Commonwealth Fusion Systems: claimed n/a / board 126

Concentric AI: claimed n/a / board 1

Consensys Software: claimed n/a / board 8

Contextual AI: claimed n/a / board 1

coreweave: claimed n/a / board 314

Cowboy Space Corporation: claimed n/a / board 68

Cross River Bank: claimed n/a / board 37

cursor: claimed n/a / board 124

Cyberhaven: claimed n/a / board 31

d-Matrix: claimed n/a / board 41

Dandelion Energy: claimed n/a / board 11

DayOne Data Centers: claimed n/a / board 2

Discovery Loop: claimed n/a / board 1

Distyl AI: claimed n/a / board 27

Domino Data Lab: claimed n/a / board 18

Eko Health: claimed n/a / board 9

Elation Health: claimed n/a / board 17

Electric Hydrogen: claimed n/a / board 16

EnCharge AI: claimed n/a / board 26

Endor Labs: claimed n/a / board 1

Fal.ai: claimed n/a / board 46

Field AI: claimed n/a / board 109

Fin (Intercom): claimed n/a / board 104

Findem: claimed n/a / board 6

Finix: claimed n/a / board 27

Fireworks AI: claimed n/a / board 91

Found (Financial Software): claimed n/a / board 5

Furiosa: claimed n/a / board 57

Garner Health: claimed n/a / board 74

Gatik: claimed n/a / board 1

GE Vernova: claimed n/a / board 2,147

Gecko Robotics: claimed n/a / board 21

General Compute: claimed n/a / board 8

Genesis AI: claimed n/a / board 74

Genesis Therapeutics: claimed n/a / board 10

Genies: claimed n/a / board 1

Goodfire: claimed n/a / board 29

GrayMatter Robotics: claimed n/a / board 13

Gridware: claimed n/a / board 17

Group14 Technologies: claimed n/a / board 4

H2O.ai: claimed n/a / board 13

Hadrian: claimed n/a / board 149

Hayden AI: claimed n/a / board 15

Helion Energy: claimed n/a / board 61

Helm.ai: claimed n/a / board 8

Helsing: claimed n/a / board 158

Hermeus: claimed n/a / board 78

Higgsfield AI: claimed n/a / board 93

Horizon3.ai: claimed n/a / board 157

Human Security: claimed n/a / board 8

Hume AI: claimed n/a / board 9

Impulse Space: claimed n/a / board 218

Included Health: claimed n/a / board 1

Invisible Technologies: claimed n/a / board 23

Irregular AI: claimed n/a / board 12

Komodo Health: claimed n/a / board 24

Kore.ai: claimed n/a / board 2

Last Energy: claimed n/a / board 25

Liquid AI: claimed n/a / board 20

Locus Robotics: claimed n/a / board 3

Loft Orbital: claimed n/a / board 67

Luma AI: claimed n/a / board 30

Mainspring Energy: claimed n/a / board 90

Mammoth Biosciences: claimed n/a / board 1

Material Security: claimed n/a / board 4

Materialize: claimed n/a / board 4

Matter Labs: claimed n/a / board 4

MatX: claimed n/a / board 42

Medallion: claimed n/a / board 6

Medely: claimed n/a / board 5

Menlo Security: claimed n/a / board 24

Mercor: claimed n/a / board 108

Merlin Labs: claimed n/a / board 26

MindTickle: claimed n/a / board 21

Modal Labs: claimed n/a / board 43

Mysten Labs: claimed n/a / board 10

NetBox Labs: claimed n/a / board 20

Neura Robotics: claimed n/a / board 42

Nexgen Cloud: claimed n/a / board 1

Nimble Robotics: claimed n/a / board 37

Nomi Health: claimed n/a / board 3

Norm AI: claimed n/a / board 22

Observe.AI: claimed n/a / board 7

Obsidian Security: claimed n/a / board 15

ONE (Our Next Energy): claimed n/a / board 1

Orca Bio: claimed n/a / board 45

Oxide Computing: claimed n/a / board 15

Paradromics: claimed n/a / board 9

Parsley Health: claimed n/a / board 9

Payabli: claimed n/a / board 9

PayFit: claimed n/a / board 9

PayZen: claimed n/a / board 9

Pearl Health: claimed n/a / board 4

People.ai: claimed n/a / board 5

Performance Drone Works: claimed n/a / board 1

Persona AI: claimed n/a / board 13

Physical Intelligence: claimed n/a / board 44

Pickle Robot: claimed n/a / board 9

Pika Labs: claimed n/a / board 16

Precision Neuroscience: claimed n/a / board 1

Prime Intellect: claimed n/a / board 39

Privateer Space (Orbital Insight): claimed n/a / board 2

Prometheus: claimed n/a / board 1

Q-CTRL: claimed n/a / board 26

Quantum Metric: claimed n/a / board 7

Rad AI: claimed n/a / board 21

Radiant: claimed n/a / board 93

Reach Power: claimed n/a / board 2

Reflect Orbital: claimed n/a / board 18

Reflection.AI: claimed n/a / board 45

Resolve AI: claimed n/a / board 19

Retro Biosciences: claimed n/a / board 7

Rewind (Database Software): claimed n/a / board 3

RunPod: claimed n/a / board 28

Runway ML: claimed n/a / board 46

Sakana AI: claimed n/a / board 2

Sardine (Network Management Software): claimed n/a / board 47

Saronic: claimed n/a / board 239

Sauce Labs: claimed n/a / board 9

SecurityScorecard: claimed n/a / board 11

Sidecar Health: claimed n/a / board 7

Slingshot Aerospace: claimed n/a / board 11

Slingshot AI: claimed n/a / board 5

Slingshot Biosciences: claimed n/a / board 1

Snorkel AI: claimed n/a / board 12

Solaris: claimed n/a / board 8

Sollis Health: claimed n/a / board 33

SpaceX: claimed n/a / board 2,834

Standard Bots: claimed n/a / board 35

Starcloud: claimed n/a / board 15

Starfish Space: claimed n/a / board 12

TechSee: claimed n/a / board 3

TerraPower: claimed n/a / board 100

The Bot Company: claimed n/a / board 7

Toggle AI: claimed n/a / board 1

Transmit Security: claimed n/a / board 14

Trusted Health: claimed n/a / board 2

Twelve Labs: claimed n/a / board 13

Upwind Security: claimed n/a / board 94

Ursa Major Technologies: claimed n/a / board 2

Valar Atomics: claimed n/a / board 106

Vast.ai: claimed n/a / board 17

VAST Data: claimed n/a / board 100

Veeco Instruments: claimed n/a / board 5

Venus Aerospace: claimed n/a / board 28

Verge Genomics: claimed n/a / board 2

VoltaGrid: claimed n/a / board 4

Waabi: claimed n/a / board 95

Wand AI: claimed n/a / board 17

Wasabi Technologies: claimed n/a / board 1

World Labs: claimed n/a / board 5

Xtend Defense: claimed n/a / board 18

Yellowbrick Data: claimed n/a / board unknown

Sorted by filed volume. Board roles are the tracked ATS board (or site careers page) at the latest weekly wave; claimed is the company's own site; 'unknown' marks a scrape that saw no roles (a floor, not a zero). Showing 60 of 216 companies with any hiring surface - the remaining 156 expand below.

Honesty: DOL fiscal years run Oct-Sep; a year is labeled partial through its own latest filing date. H1B/LCA filings cover the US visa-sponsored slice only - a leading proxy, never total headcount. Board counts are a floor (JS-rendered boards undercount; a static-scrape zero is unknown, not zero). Claimed figures are the company's own site. The outflow floor (8-K Item 2.05 + WARN notices) catches scale events only - thresholds are typically 50-99+ employees, and WARN is US-only: the Netflix October round filed 494 of ~1,000 announced (~49%) - international and sub-threshold-site cuts never file. Voluntary programs (the Microsoft 60k) trigger neither instrument. 23 tiered names have no filing record yet - entity resolution backlog (some never hire US visa roles).

Definitions, sources and cadences: the methodology page.