Which roles ask for Model Evaluation at tech companies · 87 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
87 roles counted that list Model Evaluation, one per company, title and level; 271 postings in the window.
In short
Model Evaluation: listed in 87 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 51 and preferred in 36. The largest group is software engineer roles: 25 of 87 (29%).
- Required
- 51 of 87 (59%)
- Of the roles that list Model Evaluation
- Preferred
- 36 of 87 (41%)
- Of the roles that list Model Evaluation
- Largest group
- 25 of 87 (29%)
- Software engineer
Roles that ask for Model Evaluation
Roles listing Model Evaluation, 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 | 25 | 25 of 719 (3%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 17 | 17 of 79 (22%) |
| AI engineer | 12 | 12 of 70 (17%) |
| Data scientist | 12 | 12 of 112 (11%) |
| Research scientist | 9 | 9 of 39 |
| Forward deployed engineer | 4 | 4 of 63 (6%) |
| Data analyst | 2 | 2 of 47 |
| Data architect | 1 | 1 of 11 |
| Data engineer | 1 | 1 of 99 (1%) |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- mercor5 roles
- OpenAI4 roles
- Scale AI4 roles
- Anthropic3 roles
- Perplexity3 roles
- Stripe3 roles
- Censys2 roles
- Coalition, Inc.2 roles
- GitLab2 roles
- Glean2 roles
Asked alongside
Out of the 87 Model Evaluation roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 56 of 87 (64%) |
| LLMs | 35 of 87 (40%) |
| Machine Learning | 33 of 87 (38%) |
| AI | 32 of 87 (37%) |
| AI Agents | 25 of 87 (29%) |
| Observability | 17 of 87 (20%) |
| PyTorch | 17 of 87 (20%) |
| Distributed Systems | 16 of 87 (18%) |
| SQL | 16 of 87 (18%) |
| CI/CD | 14 of 87 (16%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| AI Agents | 14 of 87 (16%) |
| LLMs | 14 of 87 (16%) |
| AWS | 13 of 87 (15%) |
| Open Source | 11 of 87 (13%) |
| Kubernetes | 10 of 87 (11%) |
| CI/CD | 9 of 87 (10%) |
| GCP | 9 of 87 (10%) |
| LangChain | 9 of 87 (10%) |
| AI | 7 of 87 (8%) |
| Azure | 7 of 87 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 50 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 49 of 50 (98%)
- 2+ years
- 49 of 50 (98%)
- 3+ years
- 45 of 50 (90%)
- 5+ years
- 33 of 50 (66%)
- 8+ years
- 10 of 50 (20%)
- 10+ years
- 6 of 50 (12%)
Degree
Of the 77 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 7 of 77 (9%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 23 of 77 (30%)
- Preferred
- 2 of 77 (3%)
- Not mentioned
- 45 of 77 (58%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 87 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 38 of 87 (44%)
- Remote roles
- 41 of 87 (47%)
How we count: 87 roles from 64 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