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Research Skills
Machine Learning is the most in-demand skill for Research roles, asked for in 73% of 752 live Research listings. The most-requested skills are Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, PyTorch, and Deep Learning.
Ranked by live-role demand across active Research listings. Updated 5 hours ago.
Most-requested skills
| Skill | Share of roles | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning | 73% | 548 |
| Python | 45% | 340 |
| LLMs | 42% | 318 |
| PyTorch | 37% | 275 |
| Deep Learning | 28% | 211 |
| Reinforcement Learning | 26% | 194 |
| Agentic AI | 24% | 177 |
| Foundation Models | 21% | 159 |
| GPU | 19% | 146 |
| Robotics | 19% | 141 |
| Multimodal | 18% | 136 |
| Data Engineering | 18% | 134 |
| Fine-tuning | 18% | 132 |
| JAX | 15% | 112 |
| Computer Vision | 12% | 91 |
| Distributed Systems | 11% | 86 |
| Generative AI | 11% | 85 |
| CUDA | 11% | 83 |
| C++ | 11% | 82 |
| TensorFlow | 9% | 69 |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 8% | 59 |
| Transformers | 7% | 54 |
| Kubernetes | 7% | 52 |
| Diffusion Models | 7% | 52 |
| NLP | 7% | 51 |
| Data Science | 6% | 45 |
| AWS | 4% | 33 |
| Rust | 4% | 31 |
| Triton | 4% | 31 |
| Quantization | 4% | 30 |
| RAG | 4% | 29 |
| Docker | 4% | 28 |
| SQL | 3% | 25 |
| GCP | 3% | 21 |
| CI/CD | 3% | 20 |
| vLLM | 3% | 20 |
| React | 3% | 19 |
| TensorRT | 3% | 19 |
| Speech Recognition | 2% | 18 |
| Prompt Engineering | 2% | 18 |
| Hugging Face | 2% | 16 |
| Embeddings | 2% | 14 |
| Databricks | 2% | 14 |
| MLOps | 2% | 14 |
| Spark | 2% | 14 |
| Time Series | 1% | 11 |
| Snowflake | 1% | 10 |
| NumPy | 1% | 10 |
| Model Context Protocol | 1% | 9 |
| LoRA | 1% | 9 |
| pandas | 1% | 8 |
| Mistral | 1% | 8 |
| Azure | 1% | 8 |
| TypeScript | 1% | 7 |
| Ruby | 1% | 7 |
| Vector Databases | 1% | 7 |
| PEFT | 1% | 5 |
| BigQuery | 1% | 5 |
| LangGraph | 1% | 5 |
| LangChain | 1% | 5 |
| Terraform | 1% | 5 |
| ONNX | 1% | 5 |
| Java | 1% | 5 |
| Llama | 1% | 4 |
| QLoRA | 1% | 4 |
| MLflow | 1% | 4 |
| scikit-learn | 0% | 3 |
| JavaScript | 0% | 3 |
| DSPy | 0% | 3 |
| Elasticsearch | 0% | 3 |
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About this data
- What skills do Research roles need?
- Machine Learning is the most in-demand skill for Research roles, asked for in 73% of 752 live Research listings. The most-requested skills are Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, PyTorch, and Deep Learning.
- How is demand measured?
- We scan the title and description of every active Research listing for a curated vocabulary of skills, then rank each by the number of distinct live roles that mention it. Share is that count divided by all active Research roles.
- How current is it?
- It reflects live listings and updates as new roles are posted and old ones close.