Guides and market reports
Monthly reports measured from the live board and guides to the nine AI functions. Every number is read at source from company hiring systems, dated, and free to quote.
How to Get Into AI Governance: The Roles, the Routes In, and What the Job Actually Is
AI governance is the most transferable function in AI hiring and the most misunderstood. What the work actually is, how it differs from AI policy, compliance and safety, which backgrounds convert (privacy, model risk, audit, law), the standards that create the work, and an honest account of how small the function still is.
September 8, 2026 · 9 min read
AI Governance Interview Questions (2026): Scenarios, Knowledge, and What They Listen For
The questions AI governance candidates actually get asked, with what the interviewer is listening for in each answer: model review gates, provider versus deployer duties, ISO/IEC 42001, stale use-case inventories, due-diligence questionnaires, and the questions you should ask them.
September 8, 2026 · 10 min read
Machine Learning Engineer Interview Questions (2026): Scenarios and What They Listen For
What ML engineer interviews actually test, and the line between ML engineer, research scientist, data scientist and AI engineer that decides which screen you pass: training and serving skew, silent pipeline changes, model decay, evaluation that lies, and the questions you should ask them.
September 8, 2026 · 10 min read
AI Engineer Interview Questions (2026): Agents, Retrieval, Evals and What They Listen For
AI engineering is the largest function in AI hiring and the most common way in from ordinary software engineering. The scenarios interviews actually use, what separates it from ML engineering, and the questions you should ask them.
September 8, 2026 · 10 min read
Contract AI Jobs Barely Exist on Company Job Boards: 0.8% of Postings
Measured 8 September 2026 by reading employer applicant tracking systems directly: of 1,244 postings sampled across three large AI boards, 10 were anything other than full-time. Why contract AI work is missing from ATS-sourced job boards, and where it actually lives.
September 8, 2026 · 6 min read
AI Jobs in India: 109 Live Roles and 11 Remote (September 2026)
India is the third largest AI hiring market on this board after the United States and the United Kingdom. What is open, which companies are hiring, how little of it is remote, and what the listings actually ask for.
September 8, 2026 · 7 min read
Which AI Employers Publish a Salary: 52% Do, and the ATS Predicts It
The first monthly disclosure index, measured 7 September 2026: 6,757 of 12,907 active postings carry a parsable pay band. Ashby 56%, Greenhouse 53%, Lever 19%, Workday 1 of 343, Comeet 0 of 56. Includes a full correction: our own parser defect, not employer behaviour, moved the number.
September 8, 2026 · 8 min read
AI Skills in Demand: Agents Now Outrank PyTorch (September 2026)
What 2,852 live AI job descriptions actually ask for, counted on 7 September 2026: Python 1,505 mentions, agents 877, PyTorch 608, Go 523. The platform tier (AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Spark, SQL) dwarfs the modelling tier, and the frontier vocabulary is real but small.
September 8, 2026 · 7 min read
AI Safety, Evals and Governance Jobs: 91 of 2,852 Open AI Roles (September 2026)
The first monthly scarcity index, measured from live postings on 7 September 2026: 47 AI safety roles at 10 companies (33 of them at Anthropic), 34 evals roles at 23 companies, 10 governance roles at 9 companies, two remote seats between them, and what the disclosed pay bands say.
September 7, 2026 · 7 min read
Entry-Level AI Jobs Are 3% of the Market: 93 of 2,852 Open Roles (September 2026)
Measured from live postings on 7 September 2026: 55 internships and 38 entry-level roles against 1,369 mid-level and 586 senior. Who hires juniors (Palantir holds 10 of the newest 50), where the seats are, one remote role in 50, and what the nine listings that publish pay actually pay.
September 7, 2026 · 6 min read
Remote AI Jobs: 378 Open, 56% Based in the US (September 2026)
Measured from live postings on 7 September 2026: 378 fully remote AI roles (13% of the board), 211 of them US-based, 78% in three functions, zero in AI safety, a third of all postings with no readable remote status, and the remote bands employers actually published.
September 7, 2026 · 6 min read