AI infrastructure hiring

The companies building the AI backbone — compute, storage, networking, systems. Weekly job-posting trends for a curated basket, with their share prices overlaid. See the basket move together, then each company standalone.

AI-infrastructure companies by hiring volume, week of 31 Aug 2026
CompanyTickerCategoryOpen roles
NVIDIANVDACompute / GPU143
Hewlett Packard EnterpriseHPESystems124
Western Digital / SanDiskWDCStorage74
IntelINTCCompute / CPU67
Astera LabsALABInterconnect21
Arista NetworksANETNetworking18
CiscoCSCONetworking3

Method & attribution. A tracked set of companies across the AI supply chain — silicon, cloud, data tooling and model labs — counted by postings in the most recent complete week. Free to cite with attribution to Xcout.