The AI companies hiring the most in Europe right now

Of the AI companies hiring in Europe on Tokn, Mistral AI has the most open roles: 84 as of 12 October 2026, more than one job in ten on the board. OpenAI (48), Anthropic (44), Lovable (44) and Wayve (40) complete the top five. The 24 companies with 10 or more openings hold about three-quarters of the 774 active AI jobs we list.

We built this ranking from the career pages of the 86 companies Tokn tracks, refreshed daily. That scope matters: Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are not on Tokn, so this is a ranking of AI companies hiring on Tokn, not of the whole market.

In short

• Mistral AI leads with 84 open roles, ahead of OpenAI (48), Anthropic (44) and Lovable (44). Seven of the top 10 were founded in Europe.
• Hiring is concentrated: 24 companies hold about 76% of jobs, and London (224) and Paris (221) are almost level. Stockholm is the third city.
• These companies hire people to put models in front of customers as much as researchers: more than 40 job titles say "Forward Deployed", at 13 companies.
• About one job in six is fully remote. The big labs hire almost entirely on-site or hybrid.
• Entry level is thin: about 9% of roles are junior, and Celonis has more of them than anyone.

AI companies hiring in Europe: the ranking

These are the 24 companies with at least 10 open roles on Tokn as of 12 October 2026. Locations come from the posting text. Work policy counts the roles tagged fully remote and hybrid; the rest are on-site or don't say.

The top 10 hold about half of all jobs on the board, and the three big labs (Mistral AI, OpenAI, Anthropic) more than a fifth. Below rank 10 the counts are close and can reorder overnight.

How we counted

Each count is the number of active postings Tokn lists from the company's own career page. For Helsing, Tokn lists only its AI roles, so its count understates the company's total hiring. Counts move daily: check the live numbers on all AI companies hiring on Tokn, and see our October 2026 AI job market report for the wider picture.

The top 10 AI companies hiring, profiled

For each company: what it does, where it hires, what it hires for, and one sourced fact about its growth.

1. Mistral AI: 84 open roles

The Paris lab behind open-weight models, the Le Chat assistant and an enterprise platform.

• Where: mostly Paris, with a few roles in London, Munich and Amsterdam.
• Roles: deployment, solutions and operations roles come first (AI Deployment Strategist, Applied AI Forward Deployed ML Engineer), then research (AI Scientist, Research Engineer), plus a couple of internships.
• Growth: Mistral closed a €3bn Series D at a valuation above €21bn in September 2026, led by Samsung Electronics.
• On Tokn: Mistral AI jobs

2. OpenAI: 48 open roles

The US lab behind ChatGPT, Codex and the OpenAI API.

• Where: more than half in London, then Dublin, Munich, Paris, Madrid and Zurich. None is fully remote.
• Roles: Forward Deployed Engineers in five cities (London, Paris, Munich, Zurich, Madrid), Applied AI Engineers for Codex, and research roles such as Researcher, Training in London.
• Growth: in July 2026 OpenAI announced a new EU headquarters in Dublin and 250 additional roles in Ireland over two years.
• On Tokn: OpenAI's open roles in Europe

3= Anthropic: 44 open roles

The US lab behind Claude, and the most London-heavy of the big three.

• Where: about seven roles in ten are in London, the rest in Munich, Paris, Dublin, Zurich and Milan.
• Roles: ML engineering and research lead (Research Engineer, Pretraining or RL, in London and Zurich; Staff Software Engineer, Inference), plus Applied AI Architects in London, Munich and Paris. No role is tagged junior.
• Growth: Anthropic raised a $65bn Series H at a $965bn post-money valuation in May 2026, with run-rate revenue above $47bn.
• On Tokn: Anthropic jobs in London, Paris and Munich

3= Lovable: 44 open roles

A Stockholm-based "vibe coding" app builder, and the least engineering-heavy company in the top 10.

• Where: roughly seven roles in ten in Stockholm and the rest in London, going by the posting text. Almost all are on-site.
• Roles: product and design, marketing and data science lead (Product Manager, Agents; Data Scientist, Growth), plus Forward Deployed Engineers.
• Growth: Lovable raised a $400M Series C at a $13.3bn valuation in August 2026 and plans to grow to roughly 450 people this year, keeping its "center of gravity in Stockholm" while expanding in London and the US.
• On Tokn: Lovable jobs

5. Wayve: 40 open roles

A London company building end-to-end driving software for carmakers and robotaxis.

• Where: mostly London, plus its German site in Leonberg, near Stuttgart.
• Roles: ML engineering and infrastructure, mostly senior and staff: Senior ML Engineer, AV Core; Staff SRE, AI Infrastructure; Applied Scientist, GAIA.
• Growth: a $1.2bn Series D at $8.6bn post-money in February 2026, backed by investors including Microsoft, NVIDIA and Uber.
• On Tokn: Wayve jobs

6. Celonis: 31 open roles

A Munich-founded process-intelligence software company. Not an AI lab, but hiring heavily to deploy AI with its customers.

• Where: Madrid and Munich, with a handful of roles elsewhere.
• Roles: AI deployment and value engineering (Lead AI Deployment Architect) and its Orbit Program for early-career hires (Associate (AI) Solution Consultant). 19 of its 31 roles are junior, the most of any company on Tokn.
• Growth: its Madrid hub, opened in 2020, has more than 700 employees from 50 nationalities, according to a Celonis press release from October 2026.
• On Tokn: Celonis jobs

7. ElevenLabs: 30 open roles

An AI audio company (voice models and voice agents), and the clearest remote employer in the top 10.

• Where: 29 of 30 roles are fully remote. Postings mention the UK most often, then Sweden and Poland.
• Roles: LLM and generative AI engineering, deployment, data science and research: Full-Stack Engineer, Creative Agents; Deployment Strategist (Sweden); Research Engineer, Inference.
• Growth: a $300M employee tender valued ElevenLabs at $22bn in September 2026. The company says it has more than 800 people.
• On Tokn: ElevenLabs jobs

8. Legora: 26 open roles

A Stockholm-founded company building collaborative AI for lawyers.

• Where: Stockholm and Malmö first, then London. All roles are on-site.
• Roles: product, platform and AI engineering (AI Engineer, Senior Product Manager, Senior Platform Engineer). More than half are tagged senior.
• Growth: Legora raised a $550M Series D at a $5.55bn valuation in March 2026, led by Accel, to fund US growth.
• On Tokn: Legora jobs

9. Cohere: 25 open roles

A Toronto-founded enterprise LLM company (Command models, the North agent platform), focused on private and sovereign AI.

• Where: mostly London, then Paris. 18 roles are fully remote and 6 hybrid.
• Roles: Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Europe); Member of Technical Staff, Agentic Environments; research internships for winter 2027.
• Growth: in September 2026 Cohere signed an agreement to combine with Germany's Aleph Alpha. The deal, not yet closed, would create a company of more than 1,000 people headquartered in Berlin and Toronto.
• On Tokn: Cohere jobs

10. Synthesia: 24 open roles

A London AI video platform for avatar-based and training content.

• Where: London or "Europe" in the posting text, split evenly between fully remote and hybrid.
• Roles: research leads (Staff Research Engineer, Interactive Avatars), then marketing and product (Product Manager, Enterprise). Most roles are staff or principal level.
• Growth: in April 2026 Synthesia opened offices in Austin and Berlin and expanded Paris and Zurich, with plans to grow headcount by more than 70% this year.
• On Tokn: Synthesia jobs

The long tail: smaller AI companies worth watching

The other 55 companies with open roles post between 1 and 9 jobs each, about a quarter of the board.

Just below the cut on 12 October were Granola (London), n8n (Berlin, all remote), ClickHouse (remote across the EU) and Elastic (distributed across Europe), with 9 roles each. Granola publishes pay: £100k–130k for its London AI and product engineers. Further down are Black Forest Labs, Photoroom, Cursor, Dataiku, Hugging Face, LangChain, Poolside, DeepL, Harvey and Aleph Alpha, each with a handful of roles that open and close quickly.

What AI companies hire for: deployment as much as research

The biggest employers hire people to put models in front of customers as often as they hire researchers. More than 40 job titles on Tokn contain "Forward Deployed", at 13 companies, and about 60 contain "Applied AI". Research and scientist titles make up roughly one job in six.

A forward deployed engineer works with a customer's team to make a model useful on their data and workflows. OpenAI posts these roles in five European cities, deployment is Mistral's largest category, and Anthropic hires Applied AI Architects in three cities. Browse AI deployment and forward-deployed roles to see the titles.

Research is real but concentrated at Mistral, Anthropic, Synthesia, Helsing, H Company and Datadog's Paris research lab (see AI research jobs). And nearly one role in five is in product, design or marketing, led by Lovable and Synthesia: our guide to careers in AI covers those paths. For engineering roles built on language models, see the LLM and GenAI jobs.

Where the jobs are: London, Paris, then Stockholm

London and Paris are almost level, with 224 and 221 jobs on Tokn as of 12 October 2026, followed by fully remote roles and Stockholm.

London is where OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Perplexity, Scale AI and Writer post most of their European roles, and it is home to Wayve and Synthesia. Paris is driven by Mistral AI, then Doctolib, H Company, Doctrine, Dust and Datadog. Stockholm is almost entirely Lovable and Legora, and Madrid is mostly Celonis. Browse AI jobs in London or AI jobs in Paris.

About one job in six is fully remote. The remote-first employers on Tokn are ElevenLabs, Cohere, n8n and half of Synthesia's roles, while OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral AI hire almost entirely on-site or hybrid. If you need remote, start with remote AI jobs open to Europe.

Is there room for juniors at AI companies?

A little. About 9% of jobs on Tokn are tagged junior, and 40 of those are internships. Nearly half of all roles are senior, staff or lead, and a third carry no level.

A few companies carry most of the entry-level hiring:

• Celonis: 19 junior roles, mostly through its Orbit Program in Madrid and Munich.
• Shift Technology: 7 junior roles, six of them internships.
• Artefact: 6, including data science internships in Paris.
• Ekimetrics: 5 internships, including 2027 AI/ML engineering internships.
• Internships at Mistral AI, Cohere and Perplexity, and a new-grad software engineer role at Scale AI.

The big labs post almost nothing tagged junior. We think the consultancies and Celonis are the most realistic first doors, because that is where the junior roles are. Our guide on how to get a job in AI covers what to build and how to apply.

How to use this list

Treat the ranking as a shortlist, then go to the live postings.

1. Filter by what you can't change: city and work policy. If you need remote, ElevenLabs and Cohere are better bets than the big labs.
2. Follow the companies you care about from all AI companies hiring on Tokn.
3. Get an alert when these companies post a new role. Long-tail teams post one or two roles at a time, and an alert is the reliable way to see them early.

FAQ

Which AI company is hiring the most in Europe?

On Tokn, Mistral AI, with 84 open roles as of 12 October 2026, most of them in Paris. OpenAI (48) and Anthropic (44) follow. Tokn doesn't track Google DeepMind, Meta, Microsoft or Amazon.

Do OpenAI and Anthropic hire in Europe?

Yes: 48 and 44 open roles on Tokn, mostly in London, plus Dublin, Munich, Paris and Zurich. Many are customer-facing applied AI and forward-deployed roles, not only research. Almost all are on-site or hybrid.

Which European AI startups are hiring?

Mistral AI, Lovable, Wayve, ElevenLabs, Legora and Synthesia are all in the top 10 on Tokn. Further down are H Company, Doctrine, Dust and Helsing, and smaller teams such as Granola, n8n and Black Forest Labs.

Are jobs at AI companies remote?

Mostly not: about one job in six on Tokn is fully remote. ElevenLabs, Cohere and n8n are remote-first, while OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral AI, Lovable and Legora hire mostly on-site or hybrid. Check each posting.

Can I get a job at an AI company as a junior or graduate?

Yes, but the door is narrow. About 9% of roles on Tokn are junior, 40 of them internships. Celonis (Orbit Program), Shift Technology, Artefact and Ekimetrics have the most, and Mistral AI, Cohere and Perplexity offer internships.

What are the top AI companies to work for in Europe?

We have no data on employee satisfaction, so we don't rank employers on it. Among the biggest hirers, Mistral AI, Anthropic, Lovable, Wayve and Legora all raised large rounds in 2026.