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Which roles ask for Information Retrieval at tech companies · 43 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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43 roles counted that list Information Retrieval, one per company, title and level; 120 postings in the window.

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In short

Information Retrieval: listed in 43 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 25 and preferred in 18. The largest group is machine learning engineer roles: 12 of 43.

Required
25 of 43
Of the roles that list Information Retrieval
Preferred
18 of 43
Of the roles that list Information Retrieval
Largest group
12 of 43
Machine learning engineer

Roles that ask for Information Retrieval

Roles listing Information Retrieval, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.

RoleRolesOf the role's roles we read
Machine learning engineer1212 of 79
Software engineer1010 of 719
AI engineer88 of 70
Forward deployed engineer77 of 63
Data scientist44 of 112
Data engineer11 of 99
Research scientist11 of 39

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 43 Information Retrieval roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. Too few to show shares, so we show counts.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
30 of 43
Machine Learning
16 of 43
AI
14 of 43
LLMs
14 of 43
AI Agents
12 of 43
Observability
10 of 43
Experimentation
9 of 43
Distributed Systems
8 of 43
Prompt Engineering
8 of 43
Model Evaluation
7 of 43
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
LLMs
11 of 43
AI Agents
7 of 43
Model Evaluation
7 of 43
Open Source
7 of 43
Kubernetes
6 of 43
CI/CD
5 of 43
Cloud Infrastructure
5 of 43
Developer Tools
5 of 43
Identity and Access Management
5 of 43
Ranking Systems
5 of 43

Experience

Of the 24 roles that state years

Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.

1+ year
24 of 24
2+ years
24 of 24
3+ years
22 of 24
5+ years
17 of 24
8+ years
5 of 24
10+ years
2 of 24

Degree

Of the 38 roles we could read for it

Required
4 of 38
Required, or experience instead
9 of 38
Preferred
2 of 38
Not mentioned
23 of 38

Pay and remote work

Of the 43 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
16 of 43
Remote roles
19 of 43

How we count: 43 roles from 35 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