What type of jobs are in AI?

Far more types than engineering. Of 140,131 live AI-related postings at 967 companies, 98,342 (70.2%) 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 7,176 postings are for building AI itself.

The number this article rests on: 70.2% of live AI-related postings are non-technical, 98,342 of 140,131. Measured October 2026.

The phrase « AI job » hides two different markets. One is the 7,176 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 (14,620 live), Operations (9,690 live), Finance (4,289 live), and Product (4,025 live). Together the 13 non-technical categories hold 43,664 live postings. Most are rated Little AI or Uses AI: the company builds or uses AI, and the role uses it as a tool. Measured October 2026.

1. Sales: 14,620 live jobs, 80.1% Little AI, 33.7% remote, median maximum $204,300 on 4,476 USD postings.
2. Operations: 9,690 live jobs, 89.2% Little AI, 14.1% remote, median maximum $170,000 on 3,445 USD postings.
3. Finance: 4,289 live jobs, 91.9% Little AI, 15.7% remote, median maximum $163,200 on 1,351 USD postings.
4. Product: 4,025 live jobs, 59.0% Little AI, 22.8% remote, median maximum $235,200 on 2,086 USD postings.
5. Marketing: 3,100 live jobs, 78.2% Little AI, 30.0% remote, median maximum $200,000 on 1,226 USD postings.
6. HR: 2,047 live jobs, 90.9% Little AI, 20.7% remote, median maximum $160,000 on 759 USD postings.
7. Healthcare: 1,582 live jobs, 92.9% Little AI, 24.0% remote, median maximum $225,000 on 452 USD postings.
8. Customer Support: 1,469 live jobs, 79.2% Little AI, 35.7% remote, median maximum $160,000 on 437 USD postings.
9. Design: 1,283 live jobs, 66.4% Little AI, 33.4% remote, median maximum $200,000 on 564 USD postings.
10. Legal: 1,169 live jobs, 89.3% Little AI, 25.6% remote, median maximum $237,500 on 486 USD postings.
11. Content: 192 live jobs, 78.6% Little AI, 25.5% remote, median maximum $156,600 on 84 USD postings.
12. Education: 168 live jobs, 84.5% Little AI, 26.2% remote, median maximum $175,950 on 57 USD postings.
13. Data Annotation & AI Training: 30 live jobs, 10.0% Little AI, 93.3% remote, too few annual USD salaries to quote a median (1).

Non-technical pay is not the discount some expect. Legal tops out at a $237,500 median maximum, Product tops out at a $235,200 median maximum, and Healthcare tops out at a $225,000 median maximum. The catalogue-wide median maximum is $200,000 on 43,250 USD postings.

What are the technical jobs in AI?

The technical side is Software Engineering (34,604 live), Data (5,525 live), Security (2,251 live), and Research (1,695 live): 44,075 postings in total. Inside it, only 6,225 are rated Builds AI, where building AI systems is the job. The rest is software, data, and security work done with AI tools. Measured October 2026.

By title, the catalogue holds 621 AI engineer postings, 634 machine learning engineer, 482 LLM engineer, and 5 prompt engineer. The pay gap with the non-technical side is real but narrower than the headlines: median maximum $250,000 for AI engineers on 169 USD postings, against $200,000 across the whole catalogue.

The technical categories are also where postings rated Builds AI concentrate: 10.3% of Software Engineering, 26.4% of Data, 2.8% of Security, and 66.8% 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. 14,096 live postings are tagged intern or junior (10.1% of the catalogue). The categories with the most entry-level postings are Software Engineering (2,126), Sales (972), and Operations (809). A degree is required in 55,023 postings, 39.3% of the catalogue. Measured October 2026.

Two honest caveats. Seniority is unknown on 7,998 postings, so the entry-level count is a floor. And 152 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 rated Uses AI or 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 from Little AI to Builds AI 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: 140,131 live jobs, of which 55,791 publish a salary and 43,250 publish it in USD.
• Measured: October 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 7,998 postings; 52,448 postings classified "other" are counted in the totals but not shown by category.