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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

reinforcement learning

276 live US technical postings name reinforcement learning 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 276 postings naming reinforcement learning that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Machine Learning Engineer35.1%
  2. 2Software Engineer27.5%
  3. 3Data Scientist21.4%
  4. 4AI Engineer14.9%
  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 reinforcement learning is named
n = 152
10th
$159k
25th
$189k
Median
$225k
75th
$273k
90th
$341k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA27.2%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA23.9%
  3. 3Remote8.3%
  4. 4New York, NY5.1%
  5. 5Seattle, WA4%
  6. 6Austin, TX3.6%
  7. 7Washington, DC2.9%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.5%

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.