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Q3 2026 edition

AI Jobs Index: Q3 2026

About 1 in 9 of the tech jobs posted in Q3 2026 and tracked by Level work on or build AI.

Updated Nov 9, 2026

Jobs posted from July 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026. Level started collecting jobs on Sep 9, 2026. Jobs posted in Q3 2026 before that date are counted only if they were still open then, so the early part of the quarter is under-counted and the later part is more complete. Live index · Method · Open dataset

Key findings, ready to quote

  • About 1 in 9 of the tech jobs posted in Q3 2026 and tracked by Level work on or build AI.
  • Builds AI roles, where the job is building AI systems, made up 4% of Q3 2026 postings.
  • Research was the job family with the highest share at Works on AI or Builds AI in Q3 2026 (among families with 100+ postings): 64%.
  • Among companies with 100+ postings in Q3 2026, Mistral AI had the highest share at Works on AI or Builds AI: 72%.
  • United States accounted for the most Q3 2026 postings with a known country, 47% of all postings.
  • About 1 in 6 of Q3 2026 postings were marked remote.

Source: Level's AI Jobs Index, Q3 2026

Q3 2026 postings by AI level

  • 86%127,000+ jobs
  • 4%5,700+ jobs
  • 7%10,000+ jobs
  • 4%5,300+ jobs

Source: Level, tech jobs posted in Q3 2026.

Job families with the highest share at Works on AI or Builds AI

Job families with 100+ postings in Q3 2026.

  1. 1Research64%843 of 1,300+ postings
  2. 2Data37%2,000+ of 5,300+ postings
  3. 3Product32%1,200+ of 3,700+ postings
  4. 4Design19%232 of 1,200+ postings
  5. 5Software Engineering19%5,700+ of 30,000+ postings
  6. 6Education13%22 of 167 postings
  7. 7Customer Support11%166 of 1,400+ postings
  8. 8Sales11%1,700+ of 15,000+ postings
  9. 9Security9%212 of 2,300+ postings
  10. 10Marketing9%297 of 3,300+ postings

Companies with the highest share at Works on AI or Builds AI

Companies with 100+ postings in Q3 2026, job-posting republishers excluded.

  1. 1Mistral AI72%152 of 212 postings
  2. 2Scale AI71%80 of 113 postings
  3. 3Sierra66%96 of 146 postings
  4. 4OpenAI62%429 of 690 postings
  5. 5Cohere59%69 of 117 postings
  6. 6Databricks53%260 of 493 postings
  7. 7Celonis50%102 of 206 postings
  8. 8Harvey49%147 of 302 postings
  9. 9Applied Intuition47%87 of 186 postings
  10. 10Zendesk44%46 of 105 postings

Countries by number of postings

Postings with a known country, 100+ in Q3 2026.

  1. 1United States70,000+12% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  2. 2United Kingdom10,000+11% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  3. 3India10,000+13% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  4. 4Canada5,900+10% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  5. 5France4,800+9% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  6. 6Germany4,500+8% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  7. 7China2,800+9% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  8. 8United Arab Emirates2,300+5% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  9. 9Singapore2,300+12% at Works on AI or Builds AI
  10. 10Australia2,100+10% at Works on AI or Builds AI

Method

Tech jobs
Every job in the Level catalog: postings read from employers' hiring systems (applicant tracking systems) every six hours. It is a sample of the postings Level follows, not the whole labor market.
Reference total
Jobs posted during Q3 2026, still open or closed since: 149,000 jobs. The publication date comes from the employer's hiring system, or is the date Level first saw the job. Job-posting republishers are excluded. The live index counts a different group, the jobs open today, so its total is not comparable and changes daily.
Period covered
Q3 2026 runs from July 1, 2026 to September 30, 2026. Level started collecting jobs on Sep 9, 2026. Jobs posted in Q3 2026 before that date are counted only if they were still open then, so the early part of the quarter is under-counted and the later part is more complete.
Levels
Each posting is rated on four levels from its duties, not from the company: Builds AI ●●●●, Works on AI ●●●○, Uses AI ●●○○ and Little AI ●○○○. The definitions are fixed, not percentiles. Level definitions.
Marked remote
The employer's hiring system flags the job as remote, its location says remote, or the classifier that reads the posting concludes it is remote.
Rankings
100+ postings in the quarter to be ranked, so that a handful of jobs cannot produce a misleading 100% or 0%. The same threshold applies to the comparison with the previous quarter.
Limits
Only jobs Level collected are counted: a job opened and closed between two collections (every six hours) is missed. The level describes the posting, not the company. Counts are recomputed from the catalog and can differ by a few jobs from one day to the next.

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Source: Level's AI Jobs Index, Q3 2026. Data measured on November 9, 2026. https://jobsbylevel.com/ai-jobs-index/2026-q3