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

Updated Oct 7, 2026

43 roles counted that list Vector Databases, one per company, title and level; 72 postings in the window.

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In short

Vector Databases: listed in 43 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 20 and preferred in 23. The largest group is AI engineer roles: 13 of 43.

Required: 20 of 43; Of the roles that list Vector Databases
Preferred: 23 of 43; Of the roles that list Vector Databases
Largest group: 13 of 43; AI engineer

Roles that ask for Vector Databases

Roles listing Vector Databases, 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	13	13 of 70
Software engineer	8	8 of 719
Data scientist	6	6 of 112
Machine learning engineer	6	6 of 79
Forward deployed engineer	5	5 of 63
Platform engineer	2	2 of 57
Data architect	1	1 of 11
Data engineer	1	1 of 99
Software architect	1	1 of 32

Companies that ask for it most

Asked alongside

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

Required
Skill	Roles asking
Python	36 of 43
LLMs	27 of 43
AI	20 of 43
Machine Learning	16 of 43
AWS	14 of 43
RAG	14 of 43
LangChain	13 of 43
Azure	12 of 43
Prompt Engineering	12 of 43
AI Agents	11 of 43

Preferred
Skill	Roles asking
AWS	9 of 43
RAG	9 of 43
CI/CD	8 of 43
Docker	8 of 43
Kubernetes	8 of 43
Open Source	7 of 43
Terraform	7 of 43
Azure	6 of 43
LLMs	6 of 43
LangChain	6 of 43

Experience

Of the 26 roles that state years

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

1+ year: 26 of 26
2+ years: 26 of 26
3+ years: 24 of 26
5+ years: 17 of 26
8+ years: 7 of 26
10+ years: 1 of 26

Degree

Of the 31 roles we could read for it

Required: 1 of 31
Required, or experience instead: 3 of 31
Preferred: 4 of 31
Not mentioned: 23 of 31

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: 15 of 43
Remote roles: 32 of 43

How we count: 43 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