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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

fine-tuning

184 live US technical postings name fine-tuning 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 184 postings naming fine-tuning that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1AI Engineer39.1%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer34.2%
  3. 3Software Engineer15.2%
  4. 4Data Scientist9.2%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.1%

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 fine-tuning is named
n = 82
10th
$150k
25th
$183k
Median
$228k
75th
$265k
90th
$292k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA25%
  2. 2Remote16.8%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA14.1%
  4. 4New York, NY11.4%
  5. 5Washington, DC3.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA2.7%
  7. 7Boston, MA2.2%
  8. 8Denver, CO1.6%

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.