State of the Engineering Job Market
A live read on engineering hiring, built from 5,111 open roles across 132 companies — the 1st-largest field we track (23% of all open roles). Updated hourly from public job postings.
Synced from public job postings · as of July 2026There are 5,111 open engineering roles across 132 companies on LandEarly right now, with 454 posted in the past week. Senior-level roles make up 46% of listings that state a level, and 79% of roles that specify a work model are fully remote.
What the data says
Research Scientist leads the field
Research Scientist is the most in-demand engineering role (1,100 open, 22% of the field), followed by Software Engineer (879).
Weighted toward senior experience
46% of engineering roles that state a level are senior. Entry-level (intern + junior) roles are 17% — a signal of how open this field is to early-career candidates.
A remote-friendly field
Of engineering roles that specify a work model, 79% are fully remote and 11% are hybrid. (Many listings don't declare one — this is the share among those that do.)
132 companies hiring
Databricks is the most active employer in engineering right now (439 open roles, 9% of the field), but roles are spread across 132 companies in total.
Experience level
Share of 5,111 listings that state a level.
- Intern1%
- Junior15%
- Mid21%
- Senior46%
- Staff11%
- Principal3%
- Executive3%
Top locations
Cities and regions with the most open engineering roles.
- San Francisco756roles
- Penn State University Park256roles
- Atlanta164roles
- New York163roles
- London108roles
- Miami95roles
- United States66roles
- Boston66roles
Most in-demand engineering roles
Open roles by specialization — tap any to browse the live feed.
- Research Scientist1,100open
- Software Engineer879open
- Engineering Manager482open
- Solutions Architect448open
- Backend Engineer275open
- Security Engineer239open
- Machine Learning Engineer171open
- Full-Stack Engineer167open
Companies hiring most in engineering
Engineering pay, where disclosed
25th percentile
$154k
Median
$179k
75th percentile
$199k
Most listings don’t disclose pay. Based on the 32 listings that do — figures are salary midpoints.
How we compute this
Every figure on this page is computed directly from 5,111 active engineering listings we’re currently tracking across 14 applicant-tracking systems, ingested from public job boards and refreshed every hour (this snapshot: July 2026). “Fully remote” and experience-level shares are computed only over listings that state a work model or level, since many don’t. We publish no estimated or modeled numbers — if we don’t have the data, we say so.
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