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November 2026 edition

The AI Jobs Index

Of 184,846 live jobs on Level measured on November 9, 2026, 10.9% build or work on AI: AI is daily work or the work itself, not a side tool.

Live data, measured on November 9, 2026. What the four levels mean · Method and limits · Q3 2026 ranking

Share of live postings by AI level

  • 85.7%158,346 jobs
  • 3.5%6,400 jobs
  • 6.9%12,690 jobs
  • 4.0%7,410 jobs

Source: Level live job catalog, 184,846 jobs, measured on November 9, 2026.

Month-over-month evolution

This is the first published edition of the index. Daily catalog snapshots only go back to September 9, 2026 (through November 8, 2026), and the oldest live job record in the catalog dates to September 9, 2026. That is not enough history to show a reliable month-over-month trend, so this edition reports a single snapshot rather than an invented trend line. Future editions will add a month to the series each time this page is recomputed.

Top 10 roles by Works on AI + Builds AI share

Which tech roles do the most AI work: roles with at least 50 live jobs, ranked by the share of postings that build or work on AI, measured on November 9, 2026.

  1. 1Machine learning engineer94.5%632 of 669
  2. 2AI engineer92.6%709 of 766
  3. 3Applied scientist92.1%444 of 482
  4. 4Research scientist86.1%230 of 267
  5. 5Forward deployed engineer78.3%628 of 802
  6. 6Data scientist70.1%628 of 896
  7. 7Solutions architect44.6%712 of 1,597
  8. 8Data engineer31.0%309 of 998
  9. 9Software engineer24.9%2,832 of 11,366
  10. 10Cybersecurity12.3%282 of 2,300

Looking at one job? See how much AI is in your job, with the share of its postings at each AI level.

Top 10 job families by Works on AI + Builds AI share

Job families with at least 10 live jobs, ranked by the share of postings that build or work on AI.

  1. 1Data Annotation & AI Training92.6%25 of 27
  2. 2Research68.4%1,245 of 1,821
  3. 3Data38.8%2,515 of 6,479
  4. 4Product33.7%1,469 of 4,364
  5. 5Design18.9%279 of 1,476
  6. 6Software Engineering18.5%7,391 of 39,986
  7. 7Sales12.0%2,186 of 18,197
  8. 8Education11.9%24 of 201
  9. 9Customer Support11.7%198 of 1,692
  10. 10Security9.3%289 of 3,092

Top 10 companies by Works on AI + Builds AI share

Companies with at least 10 live jobs (job-posting republishers excluded), ranked by the share of postings that build or work on AI. See also the full ranking of companies that build or work on AI or download the open dataset (CSV, JSON).

  1. 1Mirendil93.3%14 of 15
  2. 2Cusp AI91.7%22 of 24
  3. 3Adaption90.9%10 of 11
  4. 4Artificial Analysis90.0%18 of 20
  5. 5Featherless AI88.2%15 of 17
  6. 6OpenRouter86.2%25 of 29
  7. 7Krea85.7%12 of 14
  8. 8Basis Research Institute81.8%9 of 11
  9. 9Gorgias81.3%13 of 16
  10. 10ML680.0%12 of 15

Method

Scope
Jobs with live status in the Level catalog, pulled from company applicant tracking systems every six hours.
Sample
184,846 live jobs, every one of them rated.
Measured on
November 9, 2026, read from the database when this page was generated.
Thresholds
Rating out of 100: 80+ is Builds AI, 60+ Works on AI, 40+ Uses AI, anything lower Little AI. Fixed thresholds, not percentiles. Full definitions on /levels.
Ranking minimum
Job families and companies need at least 10 live jobs to appear in a top-10 ranking, to avoid a handful of postings producing a misleading 100% or 0% share. Company rankings exclude job-posting republishers (agencies that repost other employers' listings, not the employer itself). Roles need at least 50 live jobs. A role is matched on the job title, so one job can count for two close roles. Roles defined by their AI level (such as AI product manager) are left out of the role ranking: their share would be 100% by definition.
Historical depth
This is the first published edition of the index. Daily catalog snapshots only go back to September 9, 2026 (through November 8, 2026), and the oldest live job record in the catalog dates to September 9, 2026. That is not enough history to show a reliable month-over-month trend, so this edition reports a single snapshot rather than an invented trend line. Future editions will add a month to the series each time this page is recomputed.
Not measured
The level describes the posting, not the company or the person hired. A description that says nothing about AI is still Little AI even if the team uses AI day to day.

Cite this report

Level's AI Jobs Index is meant to be quoted directly in press and blog coverage of the AI job market. Please attribute it as a report name, not as the Level brand.

Source: Level's AI Jobs Index, November 2026

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Level's AI Jobs Index. Data measured on November 9, 2026. https://jobsbylevel.com/ai-jobs-index