Timeplot · Talent Signal · Issue 003
Google DeepMind is in a hiring freeze
Peak open roles
147
January 31, 2026
Open roles now
10
-93% vs peak · July 1
Core AI teams
80%
8 of 10 open roles
Net last month
-9
roles opened minus closed
New roles opened each month, then nothing
New job postings first seen each month; the shaded months had none
Open roles drained from a winter peak
Open job postings, reconstructed from each role's open and close dates
Net hiring per month
Roles opened minus closed each month
Gemini overtook research as the board shrank
Team rank by open roles, month by month (rank 1 = most open roles)
What the data says
- New postings have stopped. DeepMind opened just 1 new role since the start of May and none in June or July, down from 18 in April and dozens a month late last year.
- The open board has drained 93%. Open roles fell from a January peak of 147 to 10, with net hiring negative every month since February.
- What's left is core AI. 80% of the 10 remaining roles are in the Gemini app, frontier and applied AI, research, and safety teams.
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Source: Timeplot, based on Google DeepMind job postings (deepmind.google). Fixed window November 15 to July 1, 2026. “Net hiring” counts roles opened minus closed each month.
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