Which roles ask for AI Tools at tech companies · 89 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
89 roles counted that list AI Tools, one per company, title and level; 197 postings in the window.
In short
AI Tools: listed in 89 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 69 and preferred in 20. The largest group is software engineer roles: 48 of 89 (54%).
- Required
- 69 of 89 (78%)
- Of the roles that list AI Tools
- Preferred
- 20 of 89 (22%)
- Of the roles that list AI Tools
- Largest group
- 48 of 89 (54%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for AI Tools
Roles listing AI Tools, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| Software engineer | 48 | 48 of 719 (7%) |
| Data scientist | 9 | 9 of 112 (8%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 4 | 4 of 79 (5%) |
| Security engineer | 4 | 4 of 126 (3%) |
| AI engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
| Analytics engineer | 3 | 3 of 28 |
| DevOps engineer | 3 | 3 of 58 (5%) |
| Platform engineer | 3 | 3 of 57 (5%) |
| QA engineer | 3 | 3 of 63 (5%) |
| Site reliability engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Stripe7 roles
- Glean5 roles
- Black Duck Software, Inc.3 roles
- Okta3 roles
- Xsolla3 roles
- Cloudflare2 roles
- Instacart2 roles
- Sinch2 roles
- Typeface2 roles
- Zscaler2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 89 AI Tools roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 43 of 89 (48%) |
| AI | 21 of 89 (24%) |
| SQL | 20 of 89 (22%) |
| AWS | 19 of 89 (21%) |
| Go | 19 of 89 (21%) |
| CI/CD | 18 of 89 (20%) |
| Distributed Systems | 16 of 89 (18%) |
| TypeScript | 16 of 89 (18%) |
| GCP | 14 of 89 (16%) |
| Observability | 14 of 89 (16%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| CI/CD | 12 of 89 (13%) |
| Cybersecurity | 7 of 89 (8%) |
| LLMs | 7 of 89 (8%) |
| AI | 6 of 89 (7%) |
| AI Agents | 6 of 89 (7%) |
| AWS | 6 of 89 (7%) |
| Model Evaluation | 6 of 89 (7%) |
| Open Source | 6 of 89 (7%) |
| AI Coding Tools | 5 of 89 (6%) |
| Causal Inference | 5 of 89 (6%) |
Experience
Of the 49 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 49 of 49
- 2+ years
- 47 of 49
- 3+ years
- 43 of 49
- 5+ years
- 32 of 49
- 8+ years
- 12 of 49
- 10+ years
- 6 of 49
Degree
Of the 72 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 13 of 72 (18%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 12 of 72 (17%)
- Preferred
- 2 of 72 (3%)
- Not mentioned
- 45 of 72 (63%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 89 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 33 of 89 (37%)
- Remote roles
- 52 of 89 (58%)
How we count: 89 roles from 65 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology