Google DeepMind is in a hiring freeze
One of the world's top AI labs has almost stopped posting jobs. On Google DeepMind's careers site, new openings fell from a steady clip late last year to just 1 since the start of May, with none in June or July.
New roles opened each month, then nothing
New job postings first seen each month; the shaded months had none
The total openings drained accordingly. Roles fell from a January peak of 147 to 10, a 93% drop, as older postings closed and almost nothing new replaced them.
Open roles drained from a winter peak
Open job postings, reconstructed from each role's open and close dates
Peak
147
January 31
Now
10
-93% vs peak
Core AI teams
80%
8 of 10 open roles
Net last month
-9
opened minus closed
Net hiring per month
Roles opened minus closed each month
Where the latest roles sit also shifted. Early in the window, general research led DeepMind's open postings. By spring, the Gemini app and its frontier and applied-AI teams had overtaken it, and those are the teams the final handful of roles belong to.
Gemini overtook research as the board shrank
Team rank by open roles, month by month (rank 1 = most open roles)
One caveat: this covers postings on DeepMind's own careers site (https://deepmind.google). Some DeepMind roles are also listed on Google's main careers site, so this is the lab's dedicated board going quiet, not a measure of every hire the team makes.
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Source: Timeplot, based on Google DeepMind job postings (deepmind.google). Fixed window November 15 to July 1, 2026.