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What are machine learning jobs actually asking for?

We counted 194 machine learning jobs at 81 employers. Machine Learning came up most.

Counted by Glassbox · counted again every day
194

Machine learning jobs open on 7 October 2026. Each square is one job.

names Machine Learning, 180doesn't, 14outlined: internship, 6

A job listed on several boards or in several cities counts once. Source: Glassbox count · how we count

Every morning Glassbox reads the jobs open on public job boards and counts the skills each one names. This page counts the machine learning jobs: titles that name machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, NLP, or applied or research science.

Each job counts once, however many boards or cities list it.

At a glance

  1. 180 of the 194 machine learning jobs we could read name Machine Learning.
  2. Reinforcement learning is named in 20% of machine learning jobs and 14% of senior machine learning jobs.
  3. 5 to 7 years is the most common ask: 47 of the 99 jobs that state a number.

Most of them name at least one language#

112 of the 194 machine learning jobs we could read name at least one language, and 53 name two or more.

Languages they name

share of machine learning jobs194 jobs

Python55%
SQL11%
C++10%
View as table
LanguageJobsShareEmployerssenior machine learning
Python106/19455%5763%
SQL21/19411%1411%
C++20/19410%128%
Bars: machine learning jobs. Grey tick: the share in 118 senior machine learning jobs. Python is named by jobs at 57 employers. Only skills named by jobs at 10 or more employers are shown.Source: Glassbox count, 7 October 2026 · how we count

1 of the 3 languages in this chart are named more often in machine learning jobs than in senior machine learning jobs.

Senior machine learning jobs name Python more often. Reinforcement learning less.#

Put the same skills side by side, and two groups appear. The top rows lean to machine learning jobs. The bottom rows lean to senior machine learning jobs.

All jobs vs senior

share of jobs naming each skill194 machine learning · 118 senior machine learning

20%Reinforcement learning14%
55%Python63%
14%Observability20%
20%MLOps25%
View as table
SkillMachine learningSenior machine learning
Reinforcement learning39/194 · 20%17/118 · 14%
Python106/194 · 55%74/118 · 63%
Observability28/194 · 14%24/118 · 20%
MLOps38/194 · 20%30/118 · 25%
Only skills named by jobs at 10 or more employers are shown, so one company's hiring can't make a pattern.Source: Glassbox count, 7 October 2026 · how we count

Reinforcement learning appears in 39 machine learning jobs at 20 employers: 20% of them, against 14% of senior machine learning jobs. Python goes the other way: 55% here, 63% in senior machine learning jobs.

Beyond the languages, AI and data come up most#

190 of the 194 machine learning jobs we could read name a skill in AI. 87 name one in data.

Beyond the languages

share of jobs naming each194 jobs

AI and machine learning · 190 jobs

Machine Learning93%
LLMs53%
PyTorch35%

Data · 87 jobs

ETL / data pipelines20%
Statistics18%
Data quality10%

DevOps and operations · 59 jobs

Kubernetes15%
Observability14%
CI/CD9%

Backend and systems · 47 jobs

Distributed systems20%
System design6%
Each bar is the share of the 194 machine learning jobs we could read. The grey tick is the share of the 118 senior machine learning ones.Source: Glassbox count, 7 October 2026 · how we count

5 to 7 years is the most common ask#

47 of 99

machine learning jobs that state a number ask for 5 to 7 years.

99 of the 194 jobs state a number of years. The other 95 don't say.

Most machine learning jobs are senior#

Senior here means a senior, lead or principal level. 19 of the 194 jobs read as intern, entry level or junior, 7 as mid level, and 50 don't say.

Of 194 machine learning jobs. Hatched: no level stated.

Who is hiring, and where#

81 employers posted these jobs. No single one dominates: Reddit has the most, 14 of the 194.

Where the 194 jobs are

by the place each job names194 jobs

Internships

6 of 1943%

Remote

63 of 19432%
Hatched: the job names no country we can read. Countries one by one are too few to show.Source: Glassbox count, 7 October 2026 · how we count

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How we counted

This page counts the machine learning jobs: titles that name machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, NLP, or applied or research science.

The job type comes from the title. Senior means a senior, lead or principal level in the same job type.

Skills are matched against a list of about 250, by fixed rules, in the 194 jobs long enough to read. How Glassbox counts.

The 194 jobs we counted

30 of the 194, one employer at a time. Titles and employers only, never the ads.

  • Machine Learning Engineer, AI SafetyNVIDIAJunior
  • Machine Learning InternQontoInternship
  • Senior Machine Learning Engineering ManagerSpotify
  • Machine Learning Consultant (m/w/d)Machine Learning Reply
  • Applied Machine Learning Engineer, EMEAFireworks
  • Senior Computer Vision / Photogrammetry Engineer (m/w/d)syte GmbH
  • Computer Vision Engineer - TrackerHarmattan Ai
  • Senior ML Engineer (Token Factory)Nebius
  • Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Foundational RepresentationsredditAsks 7 years
  • Research Engineer (m/f/d)Sereact GmbHJunior
  • Computer Vision Engineer - TrackerSignal Processing Engineer (RF Processing & Analytics)
  • Machine Learning / Data Engineer TuringAsks 4 years
  • Staff Applied Machine Learning ScientistWhoopAsks 7 years
  • Research Scientist - Interactive AvatarsSynthesia
  • Member of Technical Staff (Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Agents)Perplexity
  • R&D Intern - Fairness in Deep Learning - ParisArtefactlinkedinInternship
  • Research Engineer, Applied ResearchSierra
  • ML Engineer - API PlatformPhysicalintelligence
  • PhD Intern, AI Applied Scientist (2027)FigmaInternship
  • Lead ML Engineer (m/f/x)Cofinity-X GmbHAsks 7 years
  • Research Scientist, Computational EnzymologyDayhoff Labs
  • Technical Lead, Machine LearningBjak
  • AI/ML Product EngineerHarmonic Security Inc
  • Senior ML Engineer | Kimchi (LLM Inference Optimization)KimchiAsks 5 years
  • Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Safety)Faculty
  • Abuse Research EngineerStripeAsks 5 years
  • Senior ML Operations (MLOps) EngineerEight SleepAsks 5 years
  • Senior ML Ops (x/f/m)Doctolib
  • Research Scientist, Foundation Model (World Model & Site Memory)Laelaps
  • Senior Research Engineer - Inference MLCerebrasAsks 7 years

Glassbox. "What are machine learning jobs actually asking for?" Counted 7 October 2026. seeglassbox.com/market/machine-learning