Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

embeddings

233 live US technical postings name embeddings in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 233 postings naming embeddings that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1AI Engineer27.9%
  2. 2Software Engineer27.5%
  3. 3Machine Learning Engineer17.2%
  4. 4Data Scientist11.6%
  5. 5Data Engineer5.6%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer4.3%
  7. 7DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer3.4%
  8. 8Backend Engineer1.3%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where embeddings is named
n = 121
10th
$135k
25th
$168k
Median
$191k
75th
$231k
90th
$277k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1Remote20.2%
  2. 2San Francisco, CA13.3%
  3. 3New York, NY11.2%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA9.9%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.4%
  6. 6Chicago, IL3%
  7. 7Denver, CO2.6%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.6%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.