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RAG appears in 74.5% of 1,969 AI job postings this week.

Week of February 27, 2026 · 1,969 active roles · 77.9% salary disclosure

Active AI Roles
1,969
This week
Median Salary
$212K
This week

Skills in Demand

RAG leads with 1,466 mentions (74.5% of all jobs).
Skill Mentions Trend
RAG 1,466 (74.5%)
Python 1,281 (65.1%)
AWS 1,123 (57.0%)
Rust 844 (42.9%)
AI Agents 622 (31.6%)
Azure 524 (26.6%)
GCP 430 (21.8%)
Prompt Engineering 380 (19.3%)
PyTorch 360 (18.3%)
Fine-tuning 347 (17.6%)

Salary Snapshot

Highest paid: Research Engineer at $260,000 median (254 roles).
Role Median Trend Roles
AI/ML Engineer $201,200 296
Data Scientist $215,300 82
Product Manager $190,000 9

Top Hiring Metros

Metro Roles Median
San Francisco 696 $235K
New York 528 $223K
Seattle 361 $232K
Remote 381 $176K
Los Angeles 372 $211K

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The Bottom Line

RAG leads with 1,466 mentions (74.5% of jobs)
Research Engineer tops the salary chart at $260,000 median
Remote AI roles (1,156) pay 17% less than onsite
77.9% of AI job postings disclose salary ranges
Python is #2 at 1,281 mentions (65.1% of jobs)
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