AI Hiring Index · frozen 2026-11-01
AI Hiring Index, November 2026
9,417 open roles at 80 AI companies on 1 November 2026, 5,140 of them technical. The largest technical family is Software Eng (1,535 openings); the skill technical postings name most is Python (48%).
Against October 2026, among the 79 companies measured in both months: +213 openings.
Technical role families
Open postings per family; posted base = medians of the published lower and upper bounds, shown when at least 10 postings publish pay.
| Family | Open | vs October | Share | Posted base | Pay disclosed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Eng | 1,535 | −4 | 16% | $188K–$275K | 59% |
| Infra / Hardware | 1,136 | +43 | 12% | $196K–$290K | 53% |
| FDE / Applied | 1,088 | +2 | 12% | $182K–$250K | 44% |
| Security | 306 | +5 | 3% | $220K–$312K | 68% |
| Research Engineer | 258 | +26 | 3% | $211K–$380K | 59% |
| Research Scientist | 190 | +32 | 2% | $245K–$367K | 45% |
| Inference / Perf | 188 | +8 | 2% | $200K–$330K | 55% |
| AI / ML Engineer | 181 | −5 | 2% | $200K–$328K | 56% |
| Evals / Data | 149 | −14 | 2% | $219K–$323K | 48% |
| Safety / Policy | 109 | +13 | 1% | $245K–$295K | 71% |
What technical postings ask for
Share of 5,140 technical postings that mention each skill.
| Skill | Share, as a bar | Share | vs October |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 48% | −1 pt | |
| LLMs | 24% | ±0 pt | |
| Evals | 19% | +5 pt | |
| Kubernetes | 19% | −1 pt | |
| Go | 15% | ±0 pt | |
| C++ | 14% | +2 pt | |
| TypeScript | 11% | −1 pt | |
| Rust | 8% | ±0 pt | |
| PyTorch | 8% | +1 pt | |
| RL / post-training | 7% | ±0 pt | |
| RAG / retrieval | 7% | −1 pt | |
| Fine-tuning | 5% | +1 pt | |
| Prompting | 5% | −2 pt | |
| PhD | 5% | +3 pt | |
| Distributed training | 4% | ±0 pt | |
| CUDA / Triton | 3% | ±0 pt | |
| vLLM / SGLang / TensorRT | 3% | ±0 pt | |
| JAX | 3% | ±0 pt | |
| MCP | 2% | ±0 pt |
New titles since October 2026
Job titles a company lists this month and did not last month (location suffixes folded).
- OpenAI (210): account director, cyber · account director, enterprise · account director, federal civilian · account director, federal partnerships · account director, financial services · account director, financial services industry …
- Anthropic (176): 3p revenue accounting & reporting · account executive, nonprofit · activation manager, beneficial deployments · ai outcomes manager, financial services · ai outcomes manager, gsi · ai outcomes manager, strategic tech …
- xAI (157): ai tutor, amharic · ai tutor, applied math · ai tutor, croatian · ai tutor, design · ai tutor, estonian · ai tutor, finnish …
- Databricks (109): accounting data & technology manager · ai automation engineer · ai sales director · analyst relations manager · business development lead, vc/pe · chief of staff to the cmo …
- Crusoe (101): [electrical design engineer, modular data centers · account executive, emerging ai · accounting manager, leases · ai tools engineer, storage infrastructure · analyst/associate, investor relations · associate / senior associate, corporate development …
- Harvey (89): account executive, enterprise, asset management · account executive, smb · account executive, smb, emea · accounts payable lead · accounts receivable manager · advisory ciso …
- Nebius (88): 3pl operations manager · account executive, apj · apac regional security manager · associate data center technician · benefits lead · business operations team lead …
- Mistral AI (58): account executive, enterprise · account executive, enterprise, swiss romande · ai deployment strategist, defense · anti-corruption & trade compliance legal counsel · applied ai, forward deployed engineer · benefits manager …
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