Which roles ask for Fine-Tuning at tech companies · 53 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
53 roles counted that list Fine-Tuning, one per company, title and level; 99 postings in the window.
In short
Fine-Tuning: listed in 53 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 36 and preferred in 17. The largest group is machine learning engineer roles: 19 of 53 (36%).
- Required
- 36 of 53 (68%)
- Of the roles that list Fine-Tuning
- Preferred
- 17 of 53 (32%)
- Of the roles that list Fine-Tuning
- Largest group
- 19 of 53 (36%)
- Machine learning engineer
Roles that ask for Fine-Tuning
Roles listing Fine-Tuning, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Machine learning engineer | 19 | 19 of 79 (24%) |
| Data scientist | 11 | 11 of 112 (10%) |
| AI engineer | 7 | 7 of 70 (10%) |
| Research scientist | 7 | 7 of 39 |
| Forward deployed engineer | 4 | 4 of 63 (6%) |
| Software engineer | 4 | 4 of 719 (1%) |
| Security engineer | 1 | 1 of 126 (1%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Together AI4 roles
- Databricks3 roles
- George Bernard Consulting3 roles
- Scale AI3 roles
- Airbnb2 roles
- Datadog2 roles
- Wolters Kluwer2 roles
- Cloudera1 role
- Okta1 role
- Reddit1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 53 Fine-Tuning roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 38 of 53 (72%) |
| Machine Learning | 33 of 53 (62%) |
| LLMs | 27 of 53 (51%) |
| PyTorch | 24 of 53 (45%) |
| Generative AI | 23 of 53 (43%) |
| Prompt Engineering | 19 of 53 (36%) |
| AI | 16 of 53 (30%) |
| RAG | 14 of 53 (26%) |
| AI Agents | 13 of 53 (25%) |
| LangChain | 11 of 53 (21%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| AI Agents | 7 of 53 (13%) |
| AWS | 7 of 53 (13%) |
| Model Evaluation | 7 of 53 (13%) |
| Azure | 5 of 53 (9%) |
| Spark | 5 of 53 (9%) |
| AI | 4 of 53 (8%) |
| Docker | 4 of 53 (8%) |
| Kubernetes | 4 of 53 (8%) |
| LLMs | 4 of 53 (8%) |
| LangChain | 4 of 53 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 32 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 32 of 32
- 2+ years
- 32 of 32
- 3+ years
- 31 of 32
- 5+ years
- 23 of 32
- 8+ years
- 8 of 32
- 10+ years
- 4 of 32
Degree
Of the 46 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 2 of 46
- Required, or experience instead
- 14 of 46
- Preferred
- 5 of 46
- Not mentioned
- 25 of 46
Pay and remote work
Of the 53 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 19 of 53 (36%)
- Remote roles
- 31 of 53 (58%)
How we count: 53 roles from 41 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