AI jobs and hiring demand in VA, 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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79core + required roles109context + optional mentions8remote-friendly▼ -24 this week

Employer concentration

Google accounts for 130 of 188 mentions (69%). The remaining 58 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.

188 live roles12 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.

40 Core39 Required67 Supporting42 Optional
79core + required42% of mentions
15.7roles per company12 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 188 active roles; each role is counted once. Read the methodology.

Posting evidence, not a company-wide stack claim
Main / core
21%(40)
Required
21%(39)
Supporting / context
36%(67)
Nice-to-have
22%(42)

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

Technical Program Manager III, Cost and Pricing Analytics, Cloud Networking

Nice

Google — Sunnyvale, CA, United States

Senior MS Dynamics 365 Developer

Context

Avenga — Banja Luka, South-Eastern Europe, BA; Beograd, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Bitola, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Chișinău, Maryland, United States; Kragujevac, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Niš, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Novi Sad, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Ohrid, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Skopje, South-Eastern Europe, MK

Senior Visual Artist / Game Designer

Context

Avenga — Banja Luka, South-Eastern Europe, BA; Beograd, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Bitola, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Chișinău, Maryland, United States; Kragujevac, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Niš, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Novi Sad, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Ohrid, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Skopje, South-Eastern Europe, MK

Senior Python Developer

Context

Avenga — Banja Luka, South-Eastern Europe, BA; Beograd, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Bitola, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Chișinău, Maryland, United States; Kragujevac, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Niš, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Novi Sad, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Ohrid, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Skopje, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Istanbul, Turkey; İzmir, Turkey

.NET Technical Lead

Context

Avenga — Banja Luka, South-Eastern Europe, BA; Beograd, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Bitola, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Chișinău, Maryland, United States; Niš, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Kragujevac, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Ohrid, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Novi Sad, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Skopje, South-Eastern Europe, MK

Product Owner

Context

Avenga — Skopje, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Ohrid, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Bitola, South-Eastern Europe, MK; Niš, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Banja Luka, South-Eastern Europe, BA; Beograd, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Kragujevac, South-Eastern Europe, Serbia; Istanbul, Turkey; Chișinău, Maryland, United States

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