Which roles ask for Experimentation at tech companies · 102 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
102 roles counted that list Experimentation, one per company, title and level; 364 postings in the window.
In short
Experimentation: listed in 102 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 75 and preferred in 27. The largest group is data scientist roles: 41 of 102 (40%).
- Required
- 75 of 102 (74%)
- Of the roles that list Experimentation
- Preferred
- 27 of 102 (26%)
- Of the roles that list Experimentation
- Largest group
- 41 of 102 (40%)
- Data scientist
Roles that ask for Experimentation
Roles listing Experimentation, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Data scientist | 41 | 41 of 112 (37%) |
| Software engineer | 23 | 23 of 719 (3%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 11 | 11 of 79 (14%) |
| Research scientist | 9 | 9 of 39 |
| Data analyst | 4 | 4 of 47 |
| AI engineer | 3 | 3 of 70 (4%) |
| Data engineer | 3 | 3 of 99 (3%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 2 | 2 of 63 (3%) |
| Mobile engineer | 2 | 2 of 38 |
| Security engineer | 2 | 2 of 126 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
Asked alongside
Out of the 102 Experimentation roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 66 of 102 (65%) |
| SQL | 44 of 102 (43%) |
| Machine Learning | 34 of 102 (33%) |
| Statistics | 33 of 102 (32%) |
| AI | 25 of 102 (25%) |
| A/B Testing | 17 of 102 (17%) |
| LLMs | 15 of 102 (15%) |
| R | 14 of 102 (14%) |
| Data Pipelines | 13 of 102 (13%) |
| Causal Inference | 12 of 102 (12%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| LLMs | 14 of 102 (14%) |
| Machine Learning | 12 of 102 (12%) |
| AI | 9 of 102 (9%) |
| Developer Tools | 8 of 102 (8%) |
| Model Evaluation | 8 of 102 (8%) |
| Observability | 8 of 102 (8%) |
| Causal Inference | 7 of 102 (7%) |
| Data Pipelines | 7 of 102 (7%) |
| Ranking Systems | 7 of 102 (7%) |
| dbt | 7 of 102 (7%) |
Experience
Of the 52 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 51 of 52 (98%)
- 2+ years
- 50 of 52 (96%)
- 3+ years
- 43 of 52 (83%)
- 5+ years
- 27 of 52 (52%)
- 8+ years
- 8 of 52 (15%)
- 10+ years
- 3 of 52 (6%)
Degree
Of the 92 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 15 of 92 (16%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 19 of 92 (21%)
- Preferred
- 4 of 92 (4%)
- Not mentioned
- 54 of 92 (59%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 102 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Median stated pay
- $232.5k a year
- Roles stating pay
- 58 of 102 (57%)
- Remote roles
- 46 of 102 (45%)
How we count: 102 roles from 62 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