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September 2026 edition

The AI Jobs Index

Of 47,735 live jobs on Level measured on September 22, 2026, 21.2% sit at Level 3 (AI-core) or Level 4 (AI-native): AI is daily work or the work itself, not a side tool.

Live data, measured on September 22, 2026. What the four levels mean · Method and limits

Share of live postings by AI level

  • L1L1 AI-light72.0%34,347 jobs
  • L2L2 AI-assisted6.9%3,275 jobs
  • L3L3 AI-core13.8%6,574 jobs
  • L4L4 AI-native7.4%3,539 jobs

Source: Level live job catalog, 47,735 jobs, measured on September 22, 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 September 21, 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 job families by AI-core + AI-native share

Job families with at least 10 live jobs, ranked by the share of postings at Level 3 or Level 4.

  1. 1Data Annotation & AI Training93.9%31 of 33
  2. 2Research80.6%499 of 619
  3. 3Data51.0%953 of 1,869
  4. 4Product38.2%725 of 1,898
  5. 5Software Engineering26.7%4,152 of 15,571
  6. 6Design24.8%201 of 811
  7. 7Sales18.6%1,456 of 7,809
  8. 8Education18.3%17 of 93
  9. 9Security14.2%117 of 824
  10. 10Customer Support13.4%120 of 897

Top 10 companies by AI-core + AI-native share

Companies with at least 10 live jobs (job-posting republishers excluded), ranked by the share of postings at Level 3 or Level 4. See also the full AI-native companies ranking or download the open dataset (CSV, JSON).

  1. 1LangChain90.3%93 of 103
  2. 2OpenRouter89.3%25 of 28
  3. 3Retell AI88.9%32 of 36
  4. 4Featherless AI88.2%15 of 17
  5. 5Basis Research Institute84.6%11 of 13
  6. 6Writer84.3%43 of 51
  7. 7Black Forest Labs80.0%12 of 15
  8. 8Together AI76.6%59 of 77
  9. 9Doppel76.5%13 of 17
  10. 10Scale AI76.0%168 of 221

Method

Scope
Jobs with live status in the Level catalog, pulled from company applicant tracking systems every six hours.
Sample
47,735 live jobs, every one of them scored.
Measured on
September 22, 2026, read from the database when this page was generated.
Thresholds
Score out of 100: Level 4 from 80, Level 3 from 60, Level 2 from 40, Level 1 below. 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).
Historical depth
This is the first published edition of the index. Daily catalog snapshots only go back to September 9, 2026 (through September 21, 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 scores Level 1 even if the team uses AI day to day.

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Source: Level's AI Jobs Index, September 2026

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Level's AI Jobs Index. Data measured on September 22, 2026. https://jobsbylevel.com/ai-jobs-index