The Headline Numbers

We're tracking 3,599 open AI/ML roles as of August 26, 2026. The distribution is lopsided in a way that should shape where you spend your application effort.

Regional Breakdown

Europe dominates with 1,817 roles — just over half of everything tracked, and roughly 533 more than the US. The US sits at 1,284, still deep but no longer the default center of gravity. India accounts for 468, a meaningful third pillar driven largely by services and platform work (Virtusa's Gen AI tooling roles are typical). Everything else is thin: 23 roles across the rest of the world and 7 in the UAE. If you're geographically flexible, Europe is where the volume is.

Who's Actually Hiring

Capital One leads by a wide margin with 212 openings — nearly 6% of the entire board, spanning titles up to Sr. Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer. Jobgether (72) is second, aggregating remote-first postings across ML engineering, MLOps, and AI research. Then comes a defense and government-services cluster: Booz Allen Hamilton (68) and Leidos (26), where many listings require an active security clearance — a real barrier, but also a moat if you already hold one.

Other notable volume: Bespoke Labs (56), J.P. Morgan (39), Google (35), Reply Deutschland SE (28), Collective.work (28), Anson Mccade (26), NEWTO TRAINING LIMITED (24), and EnthuZiastic (24).

Worth noting: two of the top five employers are banks. Financial services is absorbing more AI headcount right now than Big Tech.

The Roles Themselves

Four patterns repeat across the listings:

  • Core ML engineering — Staff ML Engineer at PayPal, Principal ML Engineer at Oracle, Senior ML Engineer (Physical AI) via Jobgether.
  • Data science, heavily specialized — Aftersales Data Scientist at EPITEC, Embedded Data Scientist at NextDeavor, Data Scientist Specialist at Vanguard. Domain context is increasingly part of the job spec.
  • AI-adjacent hybrid roles — QA AI Engineer, AI Operations Manager, Senior AI Program Manager, and full-stack roles pairing AI tooling with .NET/C#/React. These reward engineers who can ship products, not just models.
  • Infrastructure — MLOps and platform positions, concentrated in Europe.

The Dutch-language internship postings in the European set are a reminder that a chunk of that 1,817 is entry-level and local-language — good news if you're starting out in-region.

Browse and filter the full set of openings in our Jobs section.