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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1803 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
Figma	Manager, Software Engineering - DevEx AI Tools	Enterprise	7	L4
The Trade Desk	Staff Applied Scientist	Media	7	L2
Oracle	Consulting AI & Data Platform	Enterprise	7	L4
The Trade Desk	Staff Applied Scientist	Media	7	L2
UiPath	Principal Software Engineer, Site Reliability	Enterprise	7	L3
Reddit	Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Notifications	Consumer	7	L4
Upstart	Principal Applied Scientist	Fintech	7	L4
Apple	Data Architect, EMEIA Sales	Big Tech	7	L4
Google	Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML, Google Photos Reminiscing	Big Tech	7	L6
Glean	Product Manager, Core Experience	Enterprise	7	L6
Anthropic	Staff + Sr. Software Engineer, Cloud Inference	AI Frontier	7	L3
Glean	Product Manager, Core Experience	Enterprise	7	L6
Google	Senior Software Engineer, AI/ML Infrastructure	Big Tech	7	L3
Oracle	Software Architect - Oracle Health	Enterprise	7	L4
Google	Staff Software Engineering Manager, Emergent AI Infrastructure	Big Tech	7	L3
Google	Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML, Contextual Suggest	Big Tech	7	L6
Google	Tech Lead, Google Kubernetes Engine AI Platform	Big Tech	7	L3
Google	Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Payments	Big Tech	7	L6
Google	Software Engineer, AI/ML, Chronicle Security	Big Tech	7	L4
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Amazon Music	Big Tech	7	L2
Amazon	Applied Scientist, Customer360	Big Tech	7	L6
Amazon	Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AWS Healthcare AI	Big Tech	7	L4
Amazon	Sr. Systems Dev Engineer, AI & Strategic Partner Engineering	Big Tech	7	L4
T-Mobile	Senior Data Science Engineer	Telecom	7	L3
Autodesk	Sr Principal Product Manager, Platform	Enterprise	7	L4
Google	Software Engineering Manager, Content Safety, Infra	Big Tech	7	L3
Apple	Software Engineering Manager, Siri AI Quality	Big Tech	7	L4
OpenAI	Analytics & Automation Lead, User Safety & Risk Operations	AI Frontier	7	L4
Microsoft	Senior Software Engineer/ Principal Software Engineer - Copilot CLI	Big Tech	7	L4
Google	Game Designer, Games, Inception, DeepMind	Big Tech	7	L4

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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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