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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

model evaluation

194 live US technical postings name model evaluation 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 194 postings naming model evaluation that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Machine Learning Engineer36.1%
  2. 2AI Engineer24.7%
  3. 3Data Scientist22.7%
  4. 4Software Engineer13.4%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.5%

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 model evaluation is named
n = 112
10th
$146k
25th
$173k
Median
$200k
75th
$239k
90th
$277k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA24.7%
  2. 2Remote15.5%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA11.3%
  4. 4New York, NY10.3%
  5. 5Washington, DC7.2%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.6%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.6%
  8. 8Austin, TX1.5%

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.