Skill · AI Hiring Index · as of 2026-10-05
Distributed training in AI job postings
4% of technical postings at the AI companies we track mention Distributed training (181 postings). Research Engineer postings ask for it most: 18%.
Technical postings that mention it
4%
181 postings
Which roles ask for it
Share of each technical role family's open postings that mention Distributed training.
| Role family | Share, as a bar | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Research Engineer | 18% | |
| Research Scientist | 16% | |
| Inference / Perf | 11% | |
| AI / ML Engineer | 9% | |
| Infra / Hardware | 3% | |
| Software Eng | 2% | |
| Evals / Data | 1% | |
| Safety / Policy | 1% | |
| Security | 1% | |
| FDE / Applied | 1% |
Companies asking for it most
| Company | Postings | Of its technical postings |
|---|---|---|
| Thinking Machines Lab | 17 | 40% |
| Cohere | 13 | 17% |
| Anthropic | 11 | 3% |
| Databricks | 11 | 2% |
| OpenAI | 10 | 2% |
| Nebius | 8 | 4% |
| Cerebras | 7 | 7% |
| Perplexity | 7 | 12% |
| Prime Intellect | 7 | 33% |
| Wayve | 6 | 13% |
How to learn it
No pick yet — Asked for mostly by research, inference and infra roles; picks come after the FDE and AI Engineer tracks.