Frequently asked questions

• What is FAISS and how common is it in AI job postings?

  FAISS is a skill in the "Retrieval & Search" category. It currently appears in 24 active AI roles across 10 companies in our index.

• Which companies are hiring for FAISS?

  The top employers with active AI roles mentioning FAISS are: Intel (6), Visa (4), ByteDance (4), Instacart (2), Apple (2).

• Is demand for FAISS growing?

  Over the last 10 weeks, 17 new AI postings mentioned FAISS. Demand is rising — up 80% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

• At which stage of AI development is FAISS used?

  Roles requiring FAISS are concentrated in: agents (96%), application (4%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

• What skills are commonly paired with FAISS?

  Job postings that mention FAISS most often also require: Vector Databases, Large Language Models (LLMs), Python, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), LLM Application Frameworks.