Which roles ask for RAG at tech companies · 76 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
76 roles counted that list RAG, one per company, title and level; 124 postings in the window.
In short
RAG: listed in 76 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 49 and preferred in 27. The largest group is AI engineer roles: 21 of 76 (28%).
- Required
- 49 of 76 (64%)
- Of the roles that list RAG
- Preferred
- 27 of 76 (36%)
- Of the roles that list RAG
- Largest group
- 21 of 76 (28%)
- AI engineer
Roles that ask for RAG
Roles listing RAG, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| AI engineer | 21 | 21 of 70 (30%) |
| Software engineer | 14 | 14 of 719 (2%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 12 | 12 of 79 (15%) |
| Data scientist | 10 | 10 of 112 (9%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 10 | 10 of 63 (16%) |
| Security engineer | 3 | 3 of 126 (2%) |
| Data engineer | 2 | 2 of 99 (2%) |
| Data architect | 1 | 1 of 11 |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
| Platform engineer | 1 | 1 of 57 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Databricks4 roles
- CI&T2 roles
- Cohere2 roles
- Lifelancer2 roles
- Okta2 roles
- Ramp2 roles
- Scale AI2 roles
- Bixal1 role
- Compass UOL1 role
- Tiger Analytics1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 76 RAG roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 52 of 76 (68%) |
| LLMs | 43 of 76 (57%) |
| AI | 38 of 76 (50%) |
| Machine Learning | 30 of 76 (39%) |
| AI Agents | 26 of 76 (34%) |
| Prompt Engineering | 24 of 76 (32%) |
| AWS | 21 of 76 (28%) |
| Generative AI | 21 of 76 (28%) |
| LangChain | 17 of 76 (22%) |
| CI/CD | 16 of 76 (21%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| AI Agents | 14 of 76 (18%) |
| LLMs | 14 of 76 (18%) |
| AWS | 12 of 76 (16%) |
| Vector Databases | 10 of 76 (13%) |
| Azure | 9 of 76 (12%) |
| CI/CD | 9 of 76 (12%) |
| LangGraph | 9 of 76 (12%) |
| AI | 8 of 76 (11%) |
| Infrastructure as Code | 8 of 76 (11%) |
| Open Source | 8 of 76 (11%) |
Experience
Of the 40 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 40 of 40
- 2+ years
- 40 of 40
- 3+ years
- 35 of 40
- 5+ years
- 27 of 40
- 8+ years
- 9 of 40
- 10+ years
- 6 of 40
Degree
Of the 58 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 4 of 58 (7%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 12 of 58 (21%)
- Preferred
- 2 of 58 (3%)
- Not mentioned
- 40 of 58 (69%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 76 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 33 of 76 (43%)
- Remote roles
- 60 of 76 (79%)
How we count: 76 roles from 67 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