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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

model evaluation

190 live US technical postings name model evaluation 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 190 postings naming model evaluation that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Machine Learning Engineer31.1%
  2. 2Data Scientist24.2%
  3. 3AI Engineer22.6%
  4. 4Software Engineer18.4%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer2.1%

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 model evaluation is named
n = 105
10th
$159k
25th
$173k
Median
$209k
75th
$244k
90th
$285k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA20%
  2. 2Remote18.4%
  3. 3Silicon Valley, CA11.6%
  4. 4New York, NY10.5%
  5. 5Washington, DC5.8%
  6. 6Boston, MA3.2%
  7. 7Chicago, IL2.1%
  8. 8Seattle, WA2.1%

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.