AI jobs and hiring demand in IL, 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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IL, United States

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78core + required roles124context + optional mentions14remote-friendly▼ -19 this week

Employer concentration

Google accounts for 44 of 202 mentions (22%). The remaining 158 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.

202 live roles30 hiring companies7% 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.

20 Core58 Required94 Supporting30 Optional
78core + required39% of mentions
6.7roles per company30 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 202 active roles; each role is counted once. Read the methodology.

Posting evidence, not a company-wide stack claim
Main / core
10%(20)
Required
29%(58)
Supporting / context
47%(94)
Nice-to-have
15%(30)

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

Director of Inside Sales

Context

Varonis — Morrisville, NC, United States

Head of Product Learning Experiences, Global Learning Experiences

Nice

Google — New York, NY, United States; London, UK; Chicago, IL, 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

Sr. Analyst, Renewals Strategy & Operations

Context

Okta — Bellevue, Washington, United States; Chicago, Illinois, United States; New York, New York, United States; San Francisco, California, United States; Washington, District of Columbia, United States

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