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 1,800 active AI roles across 192 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for System Design?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning System Design are: Amazon (223), Google (208), NVIDIA (120), OpenAI (75), Adobe (61).

Is demand for System Design growing?

Over the last 12 weeks, 1,213 new AI postings mentioned System Design. Demand is rising — up 210% 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 (17%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

What skills are commonly paired with System Design?

Job postings that mention System Design most often also require: Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Agentic Systems, Python, Distributed Systems.

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System Design

1,800 active AI roles across 192 companies mention System Design. Category: General Experience & Skills.

Demand trend

New AI postings mentioning System Design per week — 1,213 total over 12 weeks.

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1803 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
NVIDIA	Senior Applied Researcher, AI Agentic Systems	Semiconductors	9	L4
Apple	Camera Software- Sr. Machine Learning Research Engineer	Big Tech	9	L2
Anthropic	Research Engineer, RL Infrastructure (Knowledge Work)	AI Frontier	9	L5
Decagon	Senior Research Engineer	Vertical AI	9	L4
Anthropic	Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)	AI Frontier	9	L0
Anthropic	Research Engineer, Machine Learning (RL Velocity)	AI Frontier	9	L0
NVIDIA	Senior Software Engineer, RL Post-Training Frameworks	Semiconductors	9	L2
Airbnb	Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Platform Engineering	Consumer	9	L4
OpenAI	Software Engineer, Foundations Retrieval	AI Frontier	9	L4
Perplexity	Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)	AI Frontier	9	L3
Perplexity	Member of Technical Staff (AI Researcher)	AI Frontier	9	L2
Google	Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML GenAI, Google Cloud AI	Big Tech	9	L3
Snorkel AI	Staff/Principal Research Scientist	Data AI	9	L0
Anthropic	Anthropic Fellows Program — Reinforcement Learning	AI Frontier	9	L2
Cognition	Research Engineer, Infrastructure	Coding AI	9	L3
Snowflake	Staff AI Engineer - Cortex Code Agentic System	Data AI	9	L5
Mistral AI	Research Engineer - Robotics	AI Frontier	9	L6
OpenAI	Researcher, Safety & Privacy	AI Frontier	9	L5
Capital One	Applied Researcher I (AI Foundations, LLM Core and Agentic AI)	Banking	9	L2
Salesforce	Research Scientist - Salesforce AI Research	Enterprise	9	L2
NVIDIA	Research Scientist, AI Accelerator Design and VLSI - New College Grad 2026	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Senior Research Scientist, AI Accelerator Design and VLSI	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Senior Deep Learning Communication Architect	Semiconductors	9	L3
NVIDIA	Lead Principal Engineer, Enterprise Agentic AI Platform	Semiconductors	9	L4
NVIDIA	Senior Applied Deep Learning Research Scientist, Efficiency	Semiconductors	9	L2
NVIDIA	Senior Deep Learning Engineer - Model Evaluation & AI Systems	Semiconductors	9	L5
Adobe	Research Scientist - (applied research)	Enterprise	9	L2
Meta	AI Research Engineer - Social Products (Technical Leadership)	Big Tech	9	L2
Mistral AI	Applied AI, Technical Lead - Forward Deployed AI Engineer	AI Frontier	9	L4
Amazon	Applied Scientist II, AFT AI, Amazon AFT AI	Big Tech	9	L4

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 1,800 active AI roles across 192 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for System Design?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning System Design are: Amazon (223), Google (208), NVIDIA (120), OpenAI (75), Adobe (61).
Is demand for System Design growing?
Over the last 12 weeks, 1,213 new AI postings mentioned System Design. Demand is rising — up 210% 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 (17%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.
What skills are commonly paired with System Design?
Job postings that mention System Design most often also require: Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Agentic Systems, Python, Distributed Systems.

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