How it works
A job board is a claim about the world. Here is how this one checks it.
844 roles, read straight from the platforms that publish them, re-checked several times a day, and shown only while they are still open.
How a listing gets here
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Read at the source
Three hiring platforms publish the expert roles that frontier AI labs pay for. Their catalogues are read directly from their own APIs and pages, every five to eight hours — the platform you would contract with is named on the role's own page, next to the apply button.
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Normalised into one vocabulary
Each provider names fields differently — “Software Engineering”, “software-development”, “Software dev”. Every value is mapped onto a single taxonomy, which is the only reason a field filter works at all here.
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Published only if it still qualifies
A listing appears only while it is present at the source, open, confirmed in a recent read, and not archived. That rule lives in one place and is applied identically to every listing.
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Shown exactly as published
Rates, hours, skills and country restrictions are the provider's own values. Where a field is empty, the page says so rather than inferring a plausible answer.
The parts most boards leave out
If any of this changes, this page changes with it.
How Tier1 is paid
Providers run referral programmes: when a candidate they hired arrived through our link, they pay us a fee. You are never charged, and the fee is paid by the provider out of their own budget — it does not come out of your rate. This is also why the apply button sends you to the provider's site instead of a form of ours.
What we do not do
We do not rank listings by who pays us more, because all three providers pay on the same basis. We do not write job descriptions. We do not contact you, because we have no way to. And we do not add roles that we cannot re-read at the source.
What happens to your data
Your account and your profile are kept by Supabase under row-level security: you can read and write your own row, and nobody else can — not another candidate, not a provider, and not the machines that read listings. Your CV is read once to build that profile and is never stored; the file is dropped the moment the reading is done. Ranking sends the scoring half of your profile — field, country, languages, rate, hours, years and skills — to our own server and nothing else, and no application on this site: you apply on the provider's page, under their terms.
Where the numbers can be wrong
Roughly three quarters of listings carry no structured country restriction at the source. Those are marked “location not confirmed” rather than “worldwide”. Treat that label as a genuine unknown and check the provider's page before investing an afternoon.
How the match score works
Two questions, kept apart: whether you are eligible, and how well the work fits.
Eligibility is a fact. If a provider restricted a role to certain countries, or requires a language you have not claimed, it is closed to you — and the board says so instead of scoring it.
The score is overlap, not a prediction. For a role you can take, six signals are compared — each read off something both sides published:
Skills
The skills a role asks for against the ones your CV lists, with required skills weighted above preferred ones.
Field
Whether the role's field is one you work in — by your own answer or by what your CV reads as.
Rate
The hourly rate the provider published against the minimum you set.
Experience
The years or seniority a role states against the years your CV spans.
Hours
The weekly commitment a role asks for against the time you said you have.
Language
The level a role needs — native, where it says native — against the level you gave.
A signal only counts when both sides said something. Three quarters of listings name no country and half name no weekly hours, so a silent provider never costs you points: the score is the weighted average of the signals that exist, and every role shows which ones those were. Nothing here predicts whether you will be hired — that is the provider’s decision, made on their own site.
Read a role, not a pitch.
Still the fastest way to judge this: open a role and read what it actually says.