What is LLM Pretraining and how common is it in AI job postings?

LLM Pretraining is a skill in the "LLM & Foundation Models" category. It currently appears in 201 active AI roles across 60 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for LLM Pretraining?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning LLM Pretraining are: NVIDIA (31), Capital One (17), Amazon (17), OpenAI (14), ByteDance (9).

Is demand for LLM Pretraining growing?

Over the last 12 weeks, 110 new AI postings mentioned LLM Pretraining. Demand is rising — up 64% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

At which stage of AI development is LLM Pretraining used?

Roles requiring LLM Pretraining are concentrated in: serving infrastructure (32%), post-training (28%), pre-training (13%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

What skills are commonly paired with LLM Pretraining?

Job postings that mention LLM Pretraining most often also require: Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), PyTorch, Computer Architecture, Python.

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LLM Pretraining

201 active AI roles across 60 companies mention LLM Pretraining. Category: LLM & Foundation Models.

Demand trend

New AI postings mentioning LLM Pretraining per week — 110 total over 12 weeks.

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All Big Tech · 47 Semiconductors · 44 AI Frontier · 30 Banking · 18 Enterprise · 15 Data AI · 13 Robotics · 11 Quant · 4 Fintech · 4 Retail · 2 Pharma · 2 Multimodal · 2 Hospitality · 2 Healthcare · 2 Coding AI · 2 Media · 1 Industrial · 1 Defense · 1

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All Engineering · 125 Research · 73 Product · 3

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8 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
Crusoe	Senior Director, AI Model LifeCycle	Data AI	9	L2
Crusoe	Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI Model LifeCycle	Data AI	9	L2
Crusoe	Staff Software Engineer, AI Model LifeCycle	Data AI	9	L2
Scale AI	ML Research Engineer, ML Systems	Data AI	9	L3
Databricks	Senior Software Engineer, AI Runtime	Data AI	8	L3
Scale AI	Tech Lead Manager- MLRE, ML Systems	Data AI	8	L2
Weights & Biases	Staff Technical Program Manager - Cluster Orchestration & Applied Training	Data AI	7	L3
Modal	Member of Technical Staff - Product (Backend)	Data AI	7	L3

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What is LLM Pretraining and how common is it in AI job postings?
LLM Pretraining is a skill in the "LLM & Foundation Models" category. It currently appears in 201 active AI roles across 60 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for LLM Pretraining?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning LLM Pretraining are: NVIDIA (31), Capital One (17), Amazon (17), OpenAI (14), ByteDance (9).
Is demand for LLM Pretraining growing?
Over the last 12 weeks, 110 new AI postings mentioned LLM Pretraining. Demand is rising — up 64% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
At which stage of AI development is LLM Pretraining used?
Roles requiring LLM Pretraining are concentrated in: serving infrastructure (32%), post-training (28%), pre-training (13%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.
What skills are commonly paired with LLM Pretraining?
Job postings that mention LLM Pretraining most often also require: Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), PyTorch, Computer Architecture, Python.

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