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Which roles ask for Prototyping at tech companies · 57 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026

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57 roles counted that list Prototyping, one per company, title and level; 310 postings in the window.

In short

Prototyping: listed in 57 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 38 and preferred in 19. The largest group is software engineer roles: 21 of 57 (37%).

Required
38 of 57 (67%)
Of the roles that list Prototyping
Preferred
19 of 57 (33%)
Of the roles that list Prototyping
Largest group
21 of 57 (37%)
Software engineer

Roles that ask for Prototyping

Roles listing Prototyping, 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
Software engineer2121 of 719 (3%)
AI engineer77 of 70 (10%)
Forward deployed engineer77 of 63 (11%)
Data scientist66 of 112 (5%)
Machine learning engineer55 of 79 (6%)
Software architect33 of 32
Mobile engineer22 of 38
Research scientist22 of 39
Data analyst11 of 47
Data engineer11 of 99 (1%)

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

Out of the 57 Prototyping roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.

Required
SkillRoles asking
Python
34 of 57 (60%)
AI
21 of 57 (37%)
LLMs
18 of 57 (32%)
Machine Learning
17 of 57 (30%)
TypeScript
12 of 57 (21%)
AWS
11 of 57 (19%)
AI Agents
10 of 57 (18%)
Distributed Systems
10 of 57 (18%)
Git
10 of 57 (18%)
CI/CD
9 of 57 (16%)
Preferred
SkillRoles asking
AWS
7 of 57 (12%)
Open Source
7 of 57 (12%)
LLMs
6 of 57 (11%)
TypeScript
6 of 57 (11%)
Experimentation
5 of 57 (9%)
Kubernetes
5 of 57 (9%)
Python
5 of 57 (9%)
Azure
4 of 57 (7%)
Docker
4 of 57 (7%)
React
4 of 57 (7%)

Experience

Of the 29 roles that state years

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

1+ year
28 of 29
2+ years
28 of 29
3+ years
27 of 29
5+ years
23 of 29
8+ years
10 of 29
10+ years
5 of 29

Degree

Of the 48 roles we could read for it

Required
10 of 48
Required, or experience instead
9 of 48
Preferred
1 of 48
Not mentioned
28 of 48

Pay and remote work

Of the 57 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.

Roles stating pay
24 of 57 (42%)
Remote roles
27 of 57 (47%)

How we count: 57 roles from 39 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