What type of jobs are in AI?

Far more types than engineering. Of 26,929 live AI-related postings at 369 companies, 17,457 (64.8%) sit outside software engineering, data, research, and security. Sales, marketing, operations, product, support, finance, legal, and HR all hire into AI companies and AI-heavy teams. Only 772 postings are for building AI itself.

The number this article rests on: 64.8% of live AI-related postings are non-technical, 17,457 of 26,929. Measured September 2026.

The phrase « AI job » hides two different markets. One is the 772 postings where someone trains, fine-tunes, or ships models. The other is everything the companies around those models need: people to sell them, support them, market them, and keep the company running. This page counts both, by category, from the live catalogue.

What are the non-technical jobs in AI?

The largest non-technical categories in the catalogue are Sales (5,180 live), Operations (1,433 live), Product (1,185 live), and Marketing (1,156 live). Together the 12 non-technical categories hold 12,184 live postings. Most are at Level 1 or 2: the company builds or uses AI, and the role uses it as a tool. Measured September 2026.

1. Sales: 5,180 live jobs, 69.9% at Level 1, 42.0% remote, median maximum $230,000 on 1,813 USD postings.
2. Operations: 1,433 live jobs, 72.0% at Level 1, 46.8% remote, median maximum $200,000 on 627 USD postings.
3. Product: 1,185 live jobs, 58.8% at Level 1, 40.6% remote, median maximum $260,004 on 669 USD postings.
4. Marketing: 1,156 live jobs, 72.3% at Level 1, 57.7% remote, median maximum $208,000 on 523 USD postings.
5. Finance: 720 live jobs, 77.1% at Level 1, 56.1% remote, median maximum $202,000 on 323 USD postings.
6. Customer Support: 651 live jobs, 75.9% at Level 1, 53.6% remote, median maximum $158,400 on 169 USD postings.
7. Design: 560 live jobs, 72.7% at Level 1, 60.2% remote, median maximum $225,600 on 242 USD postings.
8. HR: 450 live jobs, 77.1% at Level 1, 47.3% remote, median maximum $191,500 on 180 USD postings.
9. Legal: 325 live jobs, 78.8% at Level 1, 49.5% remote, median maximum $265,000 on 165 USD postings.
10. Healthcare: 284 live jobs, 93.0% at Level 1, 73.9% remote, median maximum $242,500 on 58 USD postings.
11. Content: 173 live jobs, 91.9% at Level 1, 83.8% remote, median maximum $164,850 on 24 USD postings.
12. Education: 67 live jobs, 46.3% at Level 1, 79.1% remote, too few annual USD salaries to quote a median (44).

Non-technical pay is not the discount some expect. Legal tops out at a $265,000 median maximum, Product tops out at a $260,004 median maximum, and Healthcare tops out at a $242,500 median maximum. The catalogue-wide median maximum is $240,000 on 10,606 USD postings.

What are the technical jobs in AI?

The technical side is Software Engineering (7,783 live), Data (1,259 live), Security (525 live), and Research (430 live): 9,997 postings in total. Inside it, only 563 are Level 4, where building AI systems is the job. The rest is software, data, and security work done with AI tools. Measured September 2026.

By title, the catalogue holds 221 AI engineer postings, 206 machine learning engineer, 63 LLM engineer, and 5 prompt engineer. The pay gap with the non-technical side is real but narrower than the headlines: median maximum $274,550 for AI engineers on 94 USD postings, against $240,000 across the whole catalogue.

The technical categories are also where Level 4 concentrates: 4.8% of Software Engineering, 10.7% of Data, 2.3% of Security, and 10.0% of Research. If you want to build AI rather than use it, these four hubs are the place to look, starting with software engineering and data.

Can I get an AI job with no experience?

Yes, and the entry points are mostly non-technical. 960 live postings are tagged intern or junior (3.6% of the catalogue). The categories with the most entry-level postings are Sales (213), Software Engineering (150), and Operations (90). A degree is required in 4,781 postings, 17.8% of the catalogue. Measured September 2026.

Two honest caveats. Seniority is unknown on 7,487 postings, so the entry-level count is a floor. And 250 postings are data annotation or AI training work, which is the most common way in without a technical background; the AI training jobs question pages cover who is hiring for it and what it pays.

The jobs right now

Generated from the live catalogue: non-technical postings at Level 2 and above, where the role uses AI tools every day. Newest first, refreshed every six hours.

Every category has its own hub with the same live list: sales, marketing, operations, product, and the rest on the category index.

Method

• Scope: live postings in the Level catalogue, rated Level 1 to 4 from the tools and tasks named in the text. Technical means software engineering, data, research, or security. Categories shown have at least 30 live jobs; the other category is excluded.
• Sample: 26,929 live jobs, of which 11,953 publish a salary and 10,606 publish it in USD.
• Measured: September 2026, from the live catalogue at jobsbylevel.com, refreshed every six hours.
• Currency: USD only, no conversions. Medians are on the posted maximum unless stated.
• Not measured: seniority is unknown on 7,487 postings; 4,748 postings classified "other" are counted in the totals but not shown by category.