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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

lidar

154 live US technical postings name lidar 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 154 postings naming lidar that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Software Engineer64.9%
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer27.9%
  3. 3Data Scientist3.2%
  4. 4AI Engineer1.9%
  5. 5Data 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 lidar is named
n = 101
10th
$153k
25th
$180k
Median
$213k
75th
$243k
90th
$275k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA24%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA22.1%
  3. 3Remote7.8%
  4. 4Boston, MA4.5%
  5. 5Austin, TX3.9%
  6. 6Los Angeles, CA3.2%
  7. 7Pittsburgh, PA2.6%
  8. 8Seattle, WA1.9%

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.