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Research Skills
Machine Learning is the most in-demand skill for Research roles, asked for in 70% of 1,306 live Research listings. The most-requested skills are Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, PyTorch, and Agentic AI.
Ranked by live-role demand across active Research listings. Updated 4 hours ago.
Most-requested skills
| Skill | Share of roles | Listings |
|---|---|---|
| Machine Learning | 70% | 918 |
| Python | 48% | 630 |
| LLMs | 38% | 500 |
| PyTorch | 33% | 437 |
| Agentic AI | 28% | 362 |
| Reinforcement Learning | 27% | 357 |
| Deep Learning | 25% | 324 |
| Foundation Models | 22% | 287 |
| GPU | 20% | 267 |
| Robotics | 20% | 255 |
| Multimodal | 18% | 236 |
| Fine-tuning | 16% | 209 |
| Data Engineering | 15% | 199 |
| JAX | 14% | 178 |
| CUDA | 13% | 164 |
| Computer Vision | 12% | 152 |
| C++ | 11% | 146 |
| Generative AI | 11% | 138 |
| Distributed Systems | 9% | 124 |
| Autonomous Vehicles | 8% | 110 |
| TensorFlow | 8% | 102 |
| Transformers | 8% | 98 |
| Diffusion Models | 7% | 89 |
| NLP | 7% | 86 |
| Docker | 6% | 82 |
| Data Science | 6% | 79 |
| Kubernetes | 5% | 67 |
| Triton | 5% | 61 |
| AWS | 5% | 60 |
| Quantization | 5% | 60 |
| Rust | 4% | 46 |
| SQL | 3% | 45 |
| vLLM | 3% | 40 |
| TensorRT | 3% | 37 |
| RAG | 3% | 37 |
| CI/CD | 3% | 36 |
| GCP | 3% | 36 |
| Hugging Face | 2% | 30 |
| Embeddings | 2% | 30 |
| Databricks | 2% | 28 |
| React | 2% | 25 |
| MLOps | 2% | 24 |
| Spark | 2% | 23 |
| Speech Recognition | 2% | 23 |
| Snowflake | 2% | 22 |
| Azure | 1% | 19 |
| Prompt Engineering | 1% | 18 |
| Time Series | 1% | 17 |
| Model Context Protocol | 1% | 14 |
| TypeScript | 1% | 13 |
| NumPy | 1% | 13 |
| PEFT | 1% | 13 |
| LoRA | 1% | 12 |
| pandas | 1% | 12 |
| Java | 1% | 10 |
| LangChain | 1% | 9 |
| BigQuery | 1% | 9 |
| Mistral | 1% | 8 |
| Vector Databases | 1% | 8 |
| LangGraph | 1% | 8 |
| ONNX | 1% | 7 |
| Elasticsearch | 1% | 7 |
| MATLAB | 1% | 7 |
| Ruby | 1% | 7 |
| MLflow | 0% | 6 |
| scikit-learn | 0% | 6 |
| Terraform | 0% | 6 |
| QLoRA | 0% | 5 |
| JavaScript | 0% | 5 |
| PostgreSQL | 0% | 5 |
| Go | 0% | 4 |
| LlamaIndex | 0% | 4 |
| Airflow | 0% | 4 |
| FastAPI | 0% | 4 |
| Recommendation Systems | 0% | 3 |
| Pinecone | 0% | 3 |
| Llama | 0% | 3 |
| LangSmith | 0% | 3 |
| Kafka | 0% | 3 |
| DSPy | 0% | 3 |
| CrewAI | 0% | 3 |
| AutoGen | 0% | 3 |
| Redis | 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 70% of 1,306 live Research listings. The most-requested skills are Machine Learning, Python, LLMs, PyTorch, and Agentic AI.
- 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.