What roles at AI companies require at tech companies · 361 roles · 35 companies · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
361 roles counted at AI companies, one per company, title and level; 1,618 postings in the window.
In short
At AI companies, Python is required most often, in 201 of 358 (56%) roles whose requirements we read in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, then Distributed Systems (82) and Go (76). The largest group is software engineer roles: 128 of 361 (35%). We counted 361 roles at 35 companies.
- Python
- 201 of 358 (56%)
- Required most often, of the roles we could read
- Largest group
- 128 of 361 (35%)
- Software engineer
- Median stated pay
- $263.5k a year
- 210 of 361 (58%) state pay
What the postings ask for
Out of the 358 roles whose requirements we could read, of 361 in all. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 201 of 358 (56%) |
| Distributed Systems | 82 of 358 (23%) |
| Go | 76 of 358 (21%) |
| Kubernetes | 76 of 358 (21%) |
| AWS | 71 of 358 (20%) |
| Machine Learning | 66 of 358 (18%) |
| AI | 63 of 358 (18%) |
| GCP | 62 of 358 (17%) |
| SQL | 56 of 358 (16%) |
| TypeScript | 52 of 358 (15%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| LLMs | 46 of 358 (13%) |
| AI | 43 of 358 (12%) |
| Open Source | 36 of 358 (10%) |
| AI Agents | 30 of 358 (8%) |
| CI/CD | 29 of 358 (8%) |
| Machine Learning | 29 of 358 (8%) |
| GCP | 21 of 358 (6%) |
| GPU Computing | 20 of 358 (6%) |
| Kubernetes | 20 of 358 (6%) |
| AWS | 16 of 358 (4%) |
Roles at AI companies
By title family, each count out of the roles at AI companies.
| Role | Roles | Of the industry's roles |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 128 | 128 of 361 (35%) |
| Security engineer | 39 | 39 of 361 (11%) |
| Research scientist | 29 | 29 of 361 (8%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 28 | 28 of 361 (8%) |
| Data scientist | 24 | 24 of 361 (7%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 23 | 23 of 361 (6%) |
| AI engineer | 20 | 20 of 361 (6%) |
| Data engineer | 16 | 16 of 361 (4%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 16 | 16 of 361 (4%) |
| Platform engineer | 9 | 9 of 361 (2%) |
Companies
Experience
Of the 233 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 231 of 233 (99%)
- 2+ years
- 229 of 233 (98%)
- 3+ years
- 208 of 233 (89%)
- 5+ years
- 155 of 233 (67%)
- 8+ years
- 41 of 233 (18%)
- 10+ years
- 14 of 233 (6%)
Degree
Of the 357 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 33 of 357 (9%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 74 of 357 (21%)
- Preferred
- 13 of 357 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 237 of 357 (66%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 361 roles we could read for it
- Median stated pay
- $263.5k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 210 of 361 (58%)
- Remote roles
- 60 of 361 (17%)
How we count: 361 roles from 35 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Industry is the company's label from its job board; companies without a label are not counted here. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology