Session Closeout: Job Pipeline Bakeoff Expansion (2026-04-30)

Summary

Ran an 8-way parallel bakeoff to discover AI PM roles beyond the existing ~45 company scraper pipeline. Each research agent covered a distinct lens: Frontier Labs, Dev Tools, Enterprise AI, Consumer AI, AI Infra, Big Tech, AI Unicorns, and Defense/Robotics.

Key Results

  • 49 new roles discovered across ~40 companies not previously tracked (18 Tier 1, 31 Tier 2)
  • 23 companies added to scraper config (68 total companies)
  • Pipeline config expanded: TIER_2 +20, AI_NATIVE +12, established_signals +25
  • Google Careers SPA liveness fix: data-title attribute parsing, 191 dead roles archived
  • Seniority penalty: -2 for non-senior titles at non-exceptional-comp companies
  • 222 tests passing

Top Tier 1 Discoveries

Perplexity PM Builder, Stripe PM ML Foundations, Glean PM Agent Interoperability/MCP, Datadog Staff PM AI, Netflix AI PM, Plaid Staff PM AI Foundations, CoreWeave Principal PM, Temporal Senior PM Agentic Coding, Reddit Staff PM Answers, Ironclad Staff PM AI/ML.

Open Items

  1. Import 49 bakeoff roles into pipeline_data.json
  2. Verify Glean board slug (glaboratories vs gleanwork)
  3. Submit applications to priority roles
  4. Custom ATS scraping for Spotify, Roblox, DoorDash, Rippling

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