ML/AI Work Research · Demand intelligence
AI Employer Interest Index
As of 2026-04, Anthropic is the most-searched AI employer: ~170K monthly searches for its careers pages across 18 markets — about 1.9× OpenAI (ML/AI Work Employer Interest Index, from Google Ads search volumes).
Careers-page search demand, thousands/month (3-mo avg)
Anthropic careers searches grew from near-zero in 2022 to ~170K/month — overtaking OpenAI (~91K) and every other AI lab tracked.
Share of voice — latest month, all tracked employers
Anthropic holds 41.5% of all careers-page search interest across the 10 AI employers tracked.
Methodology & caveats
Source: Google Ads monthly search volumes (via DataForSEO) for employer careers/jobs queries (e.g. “anthropic jobs”, “openai careers”), summed across query variants per employer and 18 markets, 3-month smoothed. This measures job-seeker interest in the employer, not vacancies and not role demand — it is a separate sub-index from the Demand Index. Brand totals are sensitive to how many query variants each employer attracts; the Anthropic-vs-OpenAI lead is robust to this (the gap exceeds any single variant's volume).
Cite this
ML/AI Work, "ML/AI Work Employer Interest Index", dataset v2026.06, n=10, as of 2026-04-01. https://mlai.work/research/employer-interest