Updated June 9, 2026

42 open positions

JAX Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 42+ jax jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and generous_parental_leave—full pay and a better work-life balance. 2 new this week.

Hiring companies include Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab, and CHAOS Industries. Schedules on offer include unlimited PTO, generous_parental_leave, and compressed weeks.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Trusted by 350+ companies offering reduced work schedules

42 Jobs Found

AI Infrastructure / ML Engineer

14d

CapaCloud

RemoteUSA

Compressed week$5,000 - $7,500/mo

AI Infrastructure / ML Engineer

15d

CapaCloud

RemoteUSA

Compressed week$5,000 - $7,500/mo

Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer (EMEA)

11d

Hugging Face

RemoteFrance

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Open-Source Machine Learning Engineer

11d

Hugging Face

RemoteUSA

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Principal AI/ML Researcher / Engineer In Reasoning, Planning, and Decision-making systems

16d

Airbnb

RemoteUSA

5 day weekVery Flexible

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer

1mo

Spotify

RemoteUSA

5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Staff, Voice AI Foundations

1mo

Deepgram

RemoteUSA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Applied Researcher

Adobe

HybridSan Jose, USA

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Staff Machine Learning Engineer (Modeling)

Block

HybridSeattle, USA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Research Scientist - Audio & Video AI

Canva

OnsiteSydney, Australia

5 day weekBest Place to Work

AI Architect

1mo

Dolby

HybridAtlanta, USA

9 day fortnight

Lead AI Research Scientist

Workato

HybridSan Francisco, USA

5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Content Platform

23d

Spotify

HybridLondon, UK

5 day weekGenerous PTO

Research Engineer, Science of Scaling

10d

Anthropic

HybridLondon, UK

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

10d

Anthropic

HybridLondon, UK

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Research Engineer, Pretraining Scaling

10d

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco, USA

5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave

Machine Learning Scientist (L4) - Content & Conversation Modeling

1mo

Netflix

HybridSeattle, USA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Member of Technical Staff, AI Agent Development Lead

1mo

Postman

HybridSan Francisco, USA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$75k - $95k

Applied AI Scientist, Small Language Model and AI Training

1mo

Postman

HybridSan Francisco, USA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO$75k - $95k

Radar R&D and Production Software Engineer

1mo

CHAOS Industries

OnsiteHawthorne, USA

5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Search all 42 jobs

How we curate this list

We track companies that publicly offer reduced-hours schedules — 4-day weeks, 9-day fortnights, half-day Fridays, and more. This page refreshes daily; companies that drop the policy are removed. Read about our editorial standards →

Last reviewed: June 9, 2026

Got questions?

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Jax on this page include Anthropic, Thinking Machines Lab, and CHAOS Industries. Jax roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Jax is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Jax roles span the full seniority range — we list 42 open roles requiring Jax across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Jax hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

Yes — companies listed on 4dayweek.io commit to full salary parity regardless of schedule. Jax roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers. Specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and the specific sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Jax candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Jax on current listings.

Showing 1-20 of 42 jobs