What is System Design and how common is it in AI job postings?

System Design is a skill in the "General Experience & Skills" category. It currently appears in 1,803 active AI roles across 189 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for System Design?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning System Design are: Amazon (235), Google (211), NVIDIA (120), OpenAI (74), Adobe (61).

Is demand for System Design growing?

Over the last 13 weeks, 1,334 new AI postings mentioned System Design. Demand is rising — up 221% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

At which stage of AI development is System Design used?

Roles requiring System Design are concentrated in: agents (51%), serving infrastructure (19%), application (18%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

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1,803 active AI roles across 189 companies mention System Design. Category: General Experience & Skills.

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New AI postings mentioning System Design per week — 1,334 total over 13 weeks.

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Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
Ramp	Software Engineer, AI Forward Deployed	Fintech	8	L4
NVIDIA	Director, Engineering – Software Engineering and AI Inferencing Platforms	Semiconductors	8	L3
Nuro	Software Engineer, AI Platform - Intern	Robotics	8	L3
Roblox	Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning Systems – Economy	Consumer	8	L4
Scale AI	Staff Product Manager, Agentic Platform	Data AI	8	L4
Glean	Software Engineer, Agentic Runtime	Enterprise	8	L4
Lila Sciences	Research Scientist I/II, Statistical Mechanics and Dynamics	AI Frontier	8	L4
Lila Sciences	AI Residency Program, Material Science (2026 Cohort)	AI Frontier	8	L1
Amazon	Senior Software Development Engineer, AI/ML, AWS Neuron, Model Inference	Big Tech	8	L3
Amazon	Software Development Engineer AI/ML, Inference Serving, AWS Neuron	Big Tech	8	L3
OpenAI	Forward Deployed Engineer - Tokyo	AI Frontier	8	L6
Roblox	Senior Machine Learning - Avatar, Core AI	Consumer	8	L3
OpenAI	Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov	AI Frontier	8	L6
Meta	Research Scientist Intern, Machine Perception for Input and Interaction (PhD)	Big Tech	8	L0
Amazon	Software Engineering Manager, ML Kernel Performance, AWS Neuron, Annapurna Labs	Big Tech	8	L3
OpenAI	Partner AI Deployment Engineer	AI Frontier	8	L4
ByteDance	Senior Software Engineer / Researcher, AI-Native database systems	Big Tech	8	L4
Google	Software Engineer, PhD, Early Career, AI/Machine Learning, 2026 Start	Big Tech	8	L2
Scale AI	Principal Architect	Data AI	8	L4
Cohere	Member of Technical Staff, Integration/RL Team (Research Engineer)	AI Frontier	8	L2
Cursor	Software Engineer, Product	Coding AI	8	L4
Datadog	Senior Software Engineer - AI Code Gen - Agent Engineer	Enterprise	8	L4
Datadog	Senior Staff GenAI Engineer - Application Performance Monitoring (APM)	Enterprise	8	L4
Intercom	Senior Engineer, AI Developer	Enterprise	8	L4
Anthropic	Senior Software Engineer, Inference	AI Frontier	8	L3
ByteDance	Senior Research Engineer / Scientist - Storage for LLM	Big Tech	8	L3
ByteDance	Research Engineer / Scientist - Storage for LLM	Big Tech	8	L3
Suki AI	Staff Machine Learning Engineer	Vertical AI	8	L4
Databricks	Staff Software Engineer - Machine Learning (Search)	Data AI	8	L6
Together AI	LLM Inference Frameworks and Optimization Engineer	Data AI	8	L3

Frequently asked questions

What is System Design and how common is it in AI job postings?
System Design is a skill in the "General Experience & Skills" category. It currently appears in 1,803 active AI roles across 189 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for System Design?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning System Design are: Amazon (235), Google (211), NVIDIA (120), OpenAI (74), Adobe (61).
Is demand for System Design growing?
Over the last 13 weeks, 1,334 new AI postings mentioned System Design. Demand is rising — up 221% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
At which stage of AI development is System Design used?
Roles requiring System Design are concentrated in: agents (51%), serving infrastructure (19%), application (18%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

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