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The Level notebook

Useful answers for people figuring out AI work.

Clear answers about AI work, backed by live job data and refreshed as the market changes.

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Forward deployed engineer salary

The forward deployed engineer salary posted in live job ads has a median range of $180,000 to $250,208, measured on 353 postings that publish pay in USD out of…

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Will AI replace cybersecurity jobs

Cybersecurity roles are still being opened, not withdrawn: 3,032 live security postings sit in the catalogue, and 2,600 of them involve little AI, where AI is…

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Machine learning engineer salary

Machine learning engineer salary, read from live postings rather than a survey: on 274 postings that carry the title and publish a USD range, the median…

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AI tutor jobs

AI tutor work sits in the education category of the catalogue, which holds 201 live postings. 174 of them involve little AI, where AI is a tool in the workflow rather than the product.

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AI engineer jobs

Postings that carry the exact title AI engineer are a countable slice of the live catalogue: 737 right now, next to 682 machine learning engineer postings…

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Agentic AI jobs

Agentic AI work means building systems that take actions rather than only producing text, and in this catalogue that work is rated Builds AI: 7,590 of 182,590 live postings, or 4.2%.

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What type of jobs are in AI?

Far more types than engineering. Of 182,590 live AI-related postings at 1,129 companies, 134,662 (73.8%) sit outside software engineering, data, research, and security.

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AI training jobs

AI training jobs, also called annotation or AI trainer roles, are the most common way into AI work without a technical background. 186 live postings carry…

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Machine learning engineer jobs

Machine learning engineer jobs are the postings that name that exact job title, not every role that touches AI.

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LLM engineer jobs

LLM engineer is a job title, not a job category, and a narrow one at that.

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Entry level AI jobs

Entry level AI jobs are a measured slice of the live catalogue: 8,442 internship postings and 11,453 junior postings, 0.1% of the 156,598 live postings where seniority is stated at all.

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