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Job market reports · Skill · October 2026

reinforcement learning

289 live US technical postings name reinforcement learning in October 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 289 postings naming reinforcement learning that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Machine Learning Engineer38.8%
  2. 2Software Engineer25.6%
  3. 3Data Scientist18.3%
  4. 4AI Engineer15.6%
  5. 5Full-Stack Engineer1%

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 = 170
10th
$146k
25th
$169k
Median
$214k
75th
$265k
90th
$329k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA29.4%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA21.8%
  3. 3Remote7.3%
  4. 4New York, NY5.5%
  5. 5Austin, TX4.2%
  6. 6Seattle, WA3.1%
  7. 7Los Angeles, CA2.8%
  8. 8Boston, MA2.4%

How we counted

967,730 live US postings read directly from 82,954 employers’ own careers pages in October 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.