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Job market reports · Skill · August 2026

reinforcement learning

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

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 165 postings naming reinforcement learning that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Machine Learning Engineer35.8%
  2. 2Data Scientist27.9%
  3. 3AI Engineer18.2%
  4. 4Software Engineer15.8%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.2%
  6. 6Full-Stack Engineer1.2%

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

Not enough disclosed salaries to publish a band — only 28 of these postings state one. We would rather show nothing than a median built on a handful of rows.

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1San Francisco, CA35.2%
  2. 2Silicon Valley, CA24.2%
  3. 3Remote9.1%
  4. 4Austin, TX5.5%
  5. 5New York, NY4.8%
  6. 6Seattle, WA4.2%
  7. 7Chicago, IL1.2%
  8. 8Detroit, MI1.2%

How we counted

457,191 live US postings read directly from 64,697 employers’ own careers pages in August 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.