AI jobs and hiring demand in Austin, United States

Core and required roles are separated from contextual and optional mentions so the headline does not overstate job intent.

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93core + required roles137context + optional mentions10remote-friendly▼ -46 this week

Employer concentration

NVIDIA accounts for 83 of 230 mentions (36%). The remaining 147 mentions span other employers.

AI market intelligence visualization

The market layer changing every role family

AI market guide

AI demand now spans product engineering, data, infrastructure, security, operations, and customer-facing work. The useful question is no longer whether a role mentions AI, but whether AI is the product, a required delivery capability, or supporting context.

230 live roles19 hiring companies4% remote-friendly

Vacancy evidence map

Where AI carries hiring weight

Each segment represents roles where AI was parsed at that evidence tier. This keeps a required production skill separate from contextual stack language.

31 Core62 Required109 Supporting28 Optional
93core + required40% of mentions
12.1roles per company19 employers

Market interpretation

What AI demand means in practice

ApplyDjinn separates explicit AI requirements from broad mentions. Core and required evidence points to roles where candidates must design, ship, evaluate, or operate AI systems; supporting evidence often describes a product environment where adjacent engineering depth still matters more than model expertise.

Strong applications connect AI vocabulary to shipped outcomes: evaluation quality, retrieval accuracy, latency, cost, safety, workflow adoption, or measurable automation. A generic interest in AI is weaker evidence than one small system with a documented decision trail.

AI / ML engineeringApplied product engineeringData and platformAI-enabled operations

Reading the market

Signals to look for

  • LLM, RAG, Python, data pipelines, and cloud services frequently form the implementation layer.
  • Evaluation, observability, security, and human review distinguish production work from demos.
  • AI appears in both specialist roles and conventional software jobs with an AI-assisted product surface.

Questions candidates ask

AI hiring FAQ

Do all AI vacancies require machine-learning research experience?

No. Many roles need software, data, cloud, product, or operations experience around an AI-enabled workflow. The demand-tier chart shows whether AI is central or contextual.

What is the strongest portfolio evidence for an AI role?

A small deployed system with evaluation results, cost and latency constraints, failure analysis, and a clear explanation of what the candidate personally built.

How AI appears in job requirements

Inferred from the title and requirement wording in 230 active roles; each role is counted once. Read the methodology.

Posting evidence, not a company-wide stack claim
Main / core
13%(31)
Required
27%(62)
Supporting / context
47%(109)
Nice-to-have
12%(28)

Skills mentioned with AI

A shared posting does not always require both skills. Explicit alternatives are counted separately.

Role graph

Roles hiring for AI

Latest roles mentioning AI

Principal Customer Success Executive-ServiceNow

Required

ServiceNow — Austin, Texas, United States

Principal Product Success Architect

Required

ServiceNow — Austin, Texas, United States

Senior Manager, Data & Analytics Product Strategic Operations

Required

ServiceNow — Austin, TEXAS, United States

Associate Manager, Merchant Strategy & Operations

Context

DoorDash — New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States; Austin, Texas, United States; Denver, Colorado, United States; Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Manager, Paid Growth Marketing

Required

DoorDash — New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Los Angeles, California, United States; Sunnyvale, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States; Austin, Texas, United States; Denver, Colorado, United States; Atlanta, Georgia, United States; Miami, Florida, United States; Boston, Massachusetts, United States; Tempe, AZ, Washington, D.C.

Senior Manager, Strategy & Ops - Sales Compliance

Context

DoorDash — San Francisco, California, United States; New York, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States; Denver, Colorado, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States; Austin, Texas, United States; Phoenix, Arizona, United States; Los Angeles, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States; Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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