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Market evidence report — research-engineer
Source: 45 real job ads (JSearch API, countries: us 45), extracted into the MSSQL evidence store; as of 2026-07-19. This report contains extracted, aggregated facts only — no ad text is reproduced (copyright / platform terms).
Seniority distribution
| Seniority | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|
| mid | 26 | 58 % |
| senior | 14 | 31 % |
| junior | 3 | 7 % |
| lead | 1 | 2 % |
| n/a | 1 | 2 % |
Tools — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Python | 15 | 33 % |
| 2 | PyTorch | 5 | 11 % |
| 3 | C++ | 4 | 9 % |
| 4 | Java | 3 | 7 % |
| 5 | Kubernetes | 3 | 7 % |
| 6 | Tensorflow | 3 | 7 % |
Hard skills — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | data analysis | 12 | 27 % |
| 2 | machine learning | 11 | 24 % |
| 3 | project management | 5 | 11 % |
| 4 | algorithm development | 4 | 9 % |
| 5 | experimental design | 4 | 9 % |
| 6 | software engineering | 4 | 9 % |
| 7 | data science | 3 | 7 % |
| 8 | mathematical modeling | 3 | 7 % |
| 9 | model evaluation | 3 | 7 % |
| 10 | prototype development | 3 | 7 % |
| 11 | research | 3 | 7 % |
| 12 | software development | 3 | 7 % |
| 13 | technical analysis | 3 | 7 % |
Methods — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reinforcement learning | 4 | 9 % |
Responsibilities — full market ranking
| # | Item | Ads | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | research support | 3 | 7 % |
Regional breakdown
Corpus note: 45 relevant ads in total — below the 100-ad target for a fully reliable ranking. Percentages above should be read as indicative.
US (us)
45 ads.
Top hard skills:
- data analysis — 27 % (12 ads)
- machine learning — 24 % (11 ads)
- project management — 11 % (5 ads)
- algorithm development — 9 % (4 ads)
- experimental design — 9 % (4 ads)
- software engineering — 9 % (4 ads)
- data science — 7 % (3 ads)
- mathematical modeling — 7 % (3 ads)
- model evaluation — 7 % (3 ads)
- prototype development — 7 % (3 ads)
Top tools:
- Python — 33 % (15 ads)
- PyTorch — 11 % (5 ads)
- C++ — 9 % (4 ads)
- Java — 7 % (3 ads)
- Kubernetes — 7 % (3 ads)
- Tensorflow — 7 % (3 ads)
- Ansible — 4 % (2 ads)
- C programming language — 4 % (2 ads)
- Claude — 4 % (2 ads)
- CUDA — 4 % (2 ads)
Seniority: mid 58 % · senior 31 % · junior 7 % · lead 2 % · n/a 2 %
UK (gb)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
EU/DACH (de, at, ch, nl)
Insufficient evidence — 0 ads (minimum for a regional ranking: 30). No ranking is reported for this region.
Job title variants in the market
| Title | Ads |
|---|---|
| Research Engineer | 2 |
| Senior Scientist/Engineer | 2 |
| 2026 Graduate - Engineer/Scientist - Resilient Military Systems | 1 |
| 2026 Research Engineer I - Arlington, VA / Cambridge, MA - Hybrid | 1 |
| 6G Standards Research Engineer | 1 |
| AeroBallistics Research Engineer - Flight Dynamics | 1 |
| AI Security Research Engineer II (Full-Time) - (United States) | 1 |
| Cyber Research Engineer (Intelligence Center) | 1 |
| Finite Element (FEA) Research Engineer | 1 |
| Frontier AI Research Engineer, Lead | 1 |
| Hydraulic Research Engineer Erosion Testing & CFD | 1 |
| Junior Vulnerability Research Engineer — Onsite | 1 |
| Lead Product/Process Research and Development Engineer | 1 |
| Machine Learning - Research Engineer - Python, Statistic Analysis | 1 |
| Part-Time Senior Engineer/Scientist, TS/SCI | 1 |
| Performance Research Engineer (multiple levels) | 1 |
| Radar Research Engineer | 1 |
| Remote ML Research Engineer: AI & Data Science (Contract) | 1 |
| Remote Open-Source AI Research Engineer | 1 |
| Research Engineer (Senior Staff+), Safeguards Labs | 1 |
| Research Engineer II | 1 |
| Research Engineer II | West Mifflin, PA, USA |
| Research Engineer Principal (RF/EW) | 1 |
| Research Engineer, AI Safety & Abuse Detection | 1 |
| Research Engineer, Cybersecurity RL (Reinforcement Learning) | 1 |
Methodology: entities extracted per ad ({hard_skills, tools, methods, responsibilities, seniority}), normalized, counted as DISTINCT ads per entity; report threshold ≥ 3 ads. Headline sections in skills.md/tools.md use the stricter ≥ 20 % threshold.