What is TPU and how common is it in AI job postings?

TPU is a skill in the "Infrastructure & Systems" category. It currently appears in 105 active AI roles across 15 companies in our index.

Which companies are hiring for TPU?

The top employers with active AI roles mentioning TPU are: Google (54), Amazon (15), ByteDance (8), Anthropic (6), NVIDIA (5).

Is demand for TPU growing?

Over the last 12 weeks, 85 new AI postings mentioned TPU. Demand is rising — up 478% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.

At which stage of AI development is TPU used?

Roles requiring TPU are concentrated in: serving infrastructure (73%), agents (10%), post-training (6%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.

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TPU

105 active AI roles across 15 companies mention TPU. Category: Infrastructure & Systems.

Top employers

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Demand trend

New AI postings mentioning TPU per week — 85 total over 12 weeks.

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All Big Tech · 83 Semiconductors · 15 AI Frontier · 13 Enterprise · 4 Data AI · 2 Quant · 1 Banking · 1

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90 AI roles requiring this skill.

Company	Title	Sector	AI score	Stage
Google	Engineering Manager, ML Performance	Big Tech	9	L3
Anthropic	Staff+ Software Engineer, Inference Runtime	AI Frontier	9	L3
Google	Senior Research Engineer, On-Device Inference, Robotics, DeepMind	Big Tech	9	L3
Google	Staff Engineer, TPU Co-Design	Big Tech	9	L3
Google	Senior Staff Engineer, TPU Co-Design	Big Tech	9	L3
Google	Machine Learning Hardware Architect, Hardware, Software Co-Design, Google Cloud	Big Tech	9	L3
Google	Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Google Chat	Big Tech	9	L4
Adobe	Senior Staff Applied Scientist - AI/ML	Enterprise	9	L2
Anthropic	Research Engineer, Interpretability	AI Frontier	9	L2
OpenAI	Software Engineer, Accelerators	AI Frontier	9	L3
Anthropic	TPU Kernel Engineer	AI Frontier	9	L3
Google	Senior Silicon System and Software Integration Engineer, Google Cloud	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Silicon RTL Design Engineer, PhD, Google Cloud	Big Tech	8	L3
Amazon	Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Mantle	Big Tech	8	L3
Apple	Sr. ML Production Model Automation Engineer, Siri Speech	Big Tech	8	L2
Google	Silicon System and Software Integration Engineer, TPU Cloud	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Software Engineer III, AI/ML, Proxybidder ML	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Research Engineer, Robotics Applications, DeepMind	Big Tech	8	L6
Amazon	Software Development Manager, AWS Neuron SDK - Distributed Training	Big Tech	8	L2
Google	Senior Design and Integration Engineer, Cloud TPU	Big Tech	8	L3
Anthropic	Engineering Manager, Cloud Safety	AI Frontier	8	L3
Google	Senior Staff Software Engineer, AI/ML, Google Cloud	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Research Engineer, Benchmarking, Robotics, DeepMind	Big Tech	8	L5
Google	Customer Engineer IV, AI Infrastructure, Google Public Sector	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Senior TPU RTL Design Engineer, Networking, Inter-Chip Interconnects	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Staff Software Engineering, YouTube ML Efficiency	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Staff Software Engineer, AI Engines 3P TPU Inference	Big Tech	8	L3
Google	Staff Software Engineer, CoreOS Agentic Engineering	Big Tech	8	L4
Amazon	Applied Scientist II, Sheriff Team- Payroll tech	Big Tech	8	L4
Amazon	Senior Software Engineer (ML), Data Plane	Big Tech	8	L3

Frequently asked questions

What is TPU and how common is it in AI job postings?
TPU is a skill in the "Infrastructure & Systems" category. It currently appears in 105 active AI roles across 15 companies in our index.
Which companies are hiring for TPU?
The top employers with active AI roles mentioning TPU are: Google (54), Amazon (15), ByteDance (8), Anthropic (6), NVIDIA (5).
Is demand for TPU growing?
Over the last 12 weeks, 85 new AI postings mentioned TPU. Demand is rising — up 478% in the last four weeks compared to the earliest four weeks in the window.
At which stage of AI development is TPU used?
Roles requiring TPU are concentrated in: serving infrastructure (73%), agents (10%), post-training (6%). These stages follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle from data preparation through to shipped product.