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Notes on AI hiring, data-driven job search, and what we're seeing in the weekly index.
MLOps and AI Platform Engineer Jobs in 2026: 150 Roles, Almost No Juniors
MLOps Engineer, AI Platform, and AI Infrastructure roles total 150 openings in HireIndex's index—Capital One leads, 73% are remote, and just 1 is entry-level.
Read more →Data Scientist Jobs in 2026: 287 Open Roles and the Companies You're Probably Not Targeting
Data Scientist is the #2 job title in HireIndex's AI/ML index with 287 open roles—ahead of Applied AI, AI Software Engineer, and LLM Engineer combined.
Read more →LLM Engineer Jobs in 2026: Capital One Has More Than Any AI Lab
Of the 37 LLM Engineer roles tracked on HireIndex, 13 belong to Capital One—not OpenAI or Anthropic. Here's what that signals about who's hiring and why.
Read more →Where Are AI Jobs Concentrated in 2026? A City-by-City Breakdown
London leads San Francisco and New York in raw AI job count. Here's where 1,789 open AI/ML roles cluster—and which city skews most senior.
Read more →How to Spot Companies That Are Genuinely Scaling Their AI Teams
Most companies claim to be 'investing in AI.' A few actually are. Here's how to tell the difference using real hiring data—not press releases.
Read more →AI Research Scientist vs. ML Engineer: Who's Actually Hiring Which
Research Scientist and ML Engineer roles look similar on the surface. The companies hiring each are completely different. Here's what the data shows.
Read more →Where Remote AI Jobs Actually Live in 2026
Five companies control nearly 40% of all remote AI/ML hiring. We pulled live data from Greenhouse and Lever to show you where the real openings are—and what 'remote' actually means.
Read more →How We Track AI Hiring Trends at HireIndex
Behind-the-scenes look at how HireIndex aggregates AI/ML roles every week, what the title and location data actually shows, and what most job-search filters are missing.
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