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AI Career Compass · role
Builds AI that senses and acts in the physical world. Robot learning, perception, planning and controls, simulation, and self-driving systems.
One employer has 52% of these postings, so they mostly show what that employer asks for.
Measured Robotics and autonomy roles make up 69 of the 1,694 AI postings in our tracked sample, about 4%.1
Measured The postings we track for these roles ask most often for machine learning (in 37 of 69), Python (33 of 69) and C++ (27 of 69).123
Written by an AI analyst (claude-opus-5-5) and checked by code against the numbers it cites.
What these postings say the work involves, counted from their lists of duties. A posting can list several.
Out of these 69 postings. “Asked for” adds required, one of several options, and listed; preferred is counted apart.
Programming, data, maths and statistics, and domain knowledge
| Skill | Asked for | Required | One of several | Listed | Preferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 33 of 69 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 4 |
| C++ | 27 of 69 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 6 |
| Software engineering practice | 16 of 69 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 2 |
| Algorithms and data structures | 8 of 69 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Statistics and probability | 6 of 69 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| Data analysis | 5 of 69 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Java | 5 of 69 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Mathematics | 5 of 69 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
Modelling, training, retrieval, agents, evaluation and other methods
| Skill | Asked for | Required | One of several | Listed | Preferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Machine learning | 37 of 69 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 11 |
| PyTorch | 20 of 69 | 3 | 11 | 6 | 1 |
| Deep learning | 19 of 69 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 2 |
| TensorFlow | 12 of 69 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 |
| Computer vision | 11 of 69 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 |
| JAX | 11 of 69 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 2 |
| Evaluation (evals) | 10 of 69 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
| Reinforcement learning | 10 of 69 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 |
Deployment, infrastructure, reliability, security, monitoring and cost
| Skill | Asked for | Required | One of several | Listed | Preferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| System design and architecture | 11 of 69 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 |
| Data pipelines (Spark, Airflow, Kafka) | 5 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 9 |
| Backend services and APIs | 5 of 69 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| MLOps and ML platforms | 4 of 69 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| Distributed systems | 4 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 |
| Model serving and inference | 4 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Performance and latency | 3 of 69 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Reliability and incident response | 3 of 69 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Publishing and leading research
| Skill | Asked for | Required | One of several | Listed | Preferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Research publications | 6 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13 |
| Leading research | 4 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Open-source contributions | 3 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Customers, communication, product thinking and leadership
| Skill | Asked for | Required | One of several | Listed | Preferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communication | 9 of 69 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 |
| Leading and mentoring | 4 of 69 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Product thinking | 2 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Technical writing | 2 of 69 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
AI rules, policy and trust and safety
| Skill | Asked for | Required | One of several | Listed | Preferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk and compliance | 1 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Public policy | 0 of 69 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Measured Perception and sensor fusion, which helps a robot make sense of its cameras and other sensors, is listed as preferred in 13 of 69 postings we track for these roles.1
Measured Research publications, meaning published papers, are listed as preferred in 13 of 69 postings we track for these roles.1
Employers list these as preferred. That they ask does not show that these skills decide who is hired.
The systems these postings expect people to build, run or work within.
Only what the postings state. Most do not say everything, so each number has its own count of postings.
35 of 69 postings state a minimum; the median is 5 years.
39 of 69 postings state a degree; 8 of them accept equivalent experience instead.
4 more postings list a PhD as preferred.
3 postings are remote. Of these, 3 name where you must live or work from, 0 do not say, and 0 say anywhere.
What employers advertise, grouped only when the ranges are comparable. Not a prediction of what you would earn.
Measured For US internship postings, the median of advertised range midpoints is 78 USD per hour (pay type unspecified), from 12 comparable disclosures; the middle half of these midpoints lies between 70 and 85 USD per hour.1234
59 of 69 postings (86%) advertise a pay range. Employers that publish ranges may differ from those that do not, and some places require it by law, so these ranges do not describe all pay.
| Group of alike ranges | Postings | Median of range midpoints | Middle half of midpoints |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD, an hour, pay type not stated, United States, internship1 employers | 12 | $78 | $70 to $85 |
This is advertised pay, not what anyone earns. We pool ranges only when currency, pay period, pay type, country and employment type are the same, and only with at least 10 of them. Nothing is converted. 47 other ranges could not be pooled (period not stated, several countries, or too few alike).
Advice built from what these 69 postings ask for. Tick what you can already do; we suggest up to three steps and one portfolio project, each with the requirement behind it and a way to show the result.
Measured Tracking began on 6 October 2026, so the window holds one reading so far, and many open postings are not new: 26 of 69 were first published in the last 30 days.1
Measured The postings we track for these roles come from 11 employers that publish jobs through public feeds; employers that run their own job systems are not included.1
Measured The sample is concentrated: the three employers with the most postings account for 52 of these 69 postings, or 75%.1
How everything is counted: our method. All roles: AI Career Compass.