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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

feature engineering

179 live US technical postings name feature engineering in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 179 postings naming feature engineering that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Scientist44.1%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer32.4%
  3. 3Software Engineer10.1%
  4. 4AI Engineer5.6%
  5. 5Data Engineer5.6%
  6. 6Data Analyst1.7%

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 feature engineering is named
n = 101
10th
$135k
25th
$163k
Median
$200k
75th
$232k
90th
$276k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY16.2%
  2. 2Remote16.2%
  3. 3San Francisco, CA13.4%
  4. 4Silicon Valley, CA10.1%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.6%
  6. 6Chicago, IL3.4%
  7. 7Austin, TX2.8%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.2%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.