AI in remote job postings
Data as of November 1, 2026 · updated daily · Download CSV
24.6% of remote and hybrid job postings ask for AI skills or AI tool use, and not only in engineering: 56.4% of product roles, 25.8% of marketing roles and 24.8% of HR roles do.
5.6% of postings are AI roles themselves; 62.9% of those build AI and 12.3% train or evaluate it. Engineers, data scientists and product managers who build AI are offered 13.5% more than others at the same level (senior: $210,000 vs $185,000).
- Ask for AI skills
- 24.6%
- 82,497 postings
- AI roles
- 5.6%
- 4,637 postings
- AI builders' pay premium (senior)
- +13.5%
- Openings at AI-native companies
- 7.9%
- 455 companies
Postings that ask for AI skills, by job category
Share of active remote and hybrid postings; categories with at least 300
Show the data as a table
| Category | Ask for AI | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Product | 56.4% | 3,079 |
| Research | 49.9% | 481 |
| Data | 47.3% | 3,520 |
| Engineering | 34.6% | 17,624 |
| Design | 29.1% | 762 |
| Compliance | 26.5% | 343 |
| Legal | 25.8% | 1,582 |
| Marketing | 25.8% | 6,163 |
| HR | 24.8% | 1,992 |
| Business Development | 24.3% | 350 |
| Consulting | 23.4% | 1,018 |
| Customer Success | 21.9% | 4,233 |
| Administrative | 19.4% | 325 |
| Operations | 18.7% | 5,742 |
| Sales | 18.2% | 12,694 |
| Project Management | 18.2% | 1,639 |
| IT | 17% | 4,752 |
| Quality | 15.9% | 946 |
| Finance | 15.2% | 4,281 |
| Supply Chain | 7.7% | 404 |
| Clinical | 3.3% | 4,893 |
| Field Service | 0.9% | 1,278 |
Postings that ask for AI skills, same companies each month
The 330 companies we have tracked since before July 2026, by month posted
Show the data as a table
| Month | Ask for AI | Postings |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 2026 | 42.7% | 2,146 |
| Jul 2026 | 41.7% | 4,061 |
| Aug 2026 | 40.1% | 5,267 |
| Sep 2026 | 43.3% | 4,851 |
| Oct 2026 | 46% | 4,803 |
| Nov 2026 (to date) | – | 0 |
* Month to date. The same companies every month, so newly added boards can't move the line. Across the whole board the share dipped from June to October, but only because the boards we added were less tech-heavy. These companies lean toward tech, so their level runs above the board-wide 24.6%.
What AI roles do
Share of the 4,637 AI roles on the board
Building AI: engineers, scientists, researchers, AI product managers and designers. Selling and deploying AI: AI account executives, solutions architects, deployment and integration consultants. Training and evaluating AI: tutors, raters, annotators, and the subject-matter experts who grade model answers.
The AI skills postings ask for
Share of all active postings that name each skill
What AI builders are offered
Full-time engineering, data, product postings in USD a year: bar = middle half, tick = median
- Building AI
- Other roles, same categories
Show the data as a table
| Level | AI builders | Other roles | Premium |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | $195,000 (116) | $159,000 (646) | +22.6% |
| Senior | $210,000 (230) | $185,000 (1131) | +13.5% |
| Lead | $242,000 (106) | $223,000 (472) | +8.5% |
| Leadership | $275,000 (42) | $245,000 (392) | +12.2% |
Who is hiring at AI-native companies
7.9% of postings are at 455 AI-native companies. The largest employers on the board right now:
- AnthropicModel lab659 jobs
- OpenAIModel lab635 jobs
- HarveyAI application312 jobs
- Weekday AIAI application200 jobs
- WayveAI application169 jobs
- ElevenLabsAI application144 jobs
- CohereModel lab109 jobs
- BasetenAI infrastructure99 jobs
- MistralModel lab91 jobs
- Fireworks AIAI infrastructure84 jobs
- CrestaAI application83 jobs
- lambdaAI infrastructure81 jobs
- cerebrasAI infrastructure78 jobs
- Volga PartnersTraining data & evaluation75 jobs
- DeepgramModel lab72 jobs
Show the data as a table
| Segment | Share of postings | Companies | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model labs | 2.2% | 30 | 1,792 |
| AI applications | 4.1% | 319 | 3,364 |
| AI infrastructure | 1.3% | 83 | 1,088 |
| Training data & evaluation | 0.4% | 23 | 295 |
How these numbers are made
A posting asks for AI skills when the skills we extract from it include an AI skill or AI tool: LLMs, generative AI, prompt engineering, AI agents, machine learning, PyTorch, ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, or AI tools in general. We hand-checked 400 postings tagged only with general AI skills: 94% named AI in their requirements or duties.
An AI role is one whose title names AI, machine learning, LLMs or a related field. Abbreviations count only in capitals, so an Italian “addetto ai servizi” is not an AI role. A plain “Data Scientist” is not counted unless the title names AI or machine learning.
The pay comparison covers full-time engineering, data and product postings that state pay in US dollars a year. It compares AI builders with everyone else at the same level. No company adds more than three postings to any figure.
An AI-native company is one whose core product is AI: model labs, products that could not exist without AI models, AI infrastructure, and training-data and evaluation providers. A company that added AI features to an existing product is not AI-native. A language model classifies each company once from its description and job titles, and corrections are reviewed by hand.
The data covers active remote and hybrid postings that Remote Jobs Rock collects from companies' own applicant tracking systems (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and others). Job aggregators, staffing agencies and gig marketplaces are excluded. That makes it a large, direct-from-employer sample. It is not a census of every job, and it leans toward companies that hire through those systems. The figures are recomputed every day, so they can differ from an earlier visit. The CSV shows the date of each figure.
Use this data
You're welcome to quote these figures or reuse the charts. Please credit Remote Jobs Rock with a link to this page. Suggested citation:
Remote Jobs Rock, “AI in remote job postings”, data as of November 1, 2026, https://remotejobsrock.com/trends/ai-jobs
For a different cut of the data, write to support@remotejobsrock.com.