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AI Skills Index · September 2026

What Solutions Engineer job posts ask for

The tools named in 705 postings from 66 employers. Each percentage is the share of those employers that name the tool in at least one posting. Solutions engineers and architects, sales engineers, customer engineers, applied AI architects and pre-sales consultants.

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These posts rarely name tools

No tool is named by even a fifth of the employers hiring for this role. What they name instead is the way the work is done:

  • Building AI agents36%
  • RAG14%
  • Prompt engineering12%
  • Fine-tuning11%
  • GPU work11%
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)11%
  • Evals9%
  • Using AI coding tools8%
  • Vector databases and search6%
  • Sales methodology (MEDDPICC and others)6%
  • Embeddings6%

Signature tools

What sets this role apart: tools its postings name far more often than other AI job posts do.

Tools, ranked

Named products you can learn and put on a resume, counted when at least 2 employers name them. Open a row to see where postings put it, which employers name it, and example postings.

  1. 01
    SalesforceSales and GTM stack

    Often a bonus

    14%

    9 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 17 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 6, part of the work in 4 and a bonus in 7.

    Employers naming it: Cresta, Stripe, Databricks, CoreWeave, Decagon, Klaviyo, and 3 more.

  2. 02
    BigQueryData and retrieval

    Part of the day-to-day work

    9%

    6 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 16 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2, part of the work in 8 and a bonus in 4.

    Employers naming it: Fivetran, Databricks, Snowflake, Stripe, Supabase, Waymo.

  3. 03
    LangChainAgent frameworks and SDKs

    Often a bonus

    8%

    5 of 66 employers

    Named in 3% of the role's postings. Of 20 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 8, part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 9.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Databricks, Snowflake, Elastic, Stripe.

  4. 04
    PyTorchML training and serving

    Often a bonus

    8%

    5 of 66 employers

    Named in 3% of the role's postings. Of 20 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 6, part of the work in 3 and a bonus in 9.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Databricks, Snowflake, Crusoe, Lambda.

  5. 05
    DatabricksData and retrieval

    Part of the day-to-day work

    8%

    5 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 17 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 4, part of the work in 9 and a bonus in 2.

    Employers naming it: Fivetran, Snowflake, Samsara, Stripe, Instacart.

  6. 06
    vLLMML training and serving

    Often a bonus

    8%

    5 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 12 postings that name it, it is part of the work in 3 and a bonus in 9.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Anyscale, Baseten, Lambda, Liquid AI.

  7. 07
    OpenAI API and GPT modelsModel APIs and platforms

    Mostly a requirement

    8%

    5 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 11 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 11.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Braintrust, Instacart, Stripe, Typeface.

  8. 08
    Apache KafkaData and retrievalSignature

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 10% of the role's postings. Of 72 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 33, part of the work in 5 and a bonus in 3.

    Employers naming it: MongoDB, Databricks, Snowflake, Fivetran.

  9. 09
    SnowflakeData and retrieval

    Often a bonus

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 6% of the role's postings. Of 39 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 7, part of the work in 9 and a bonus in 21.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Fivetran, Stripe, Instacart.

  10. 10
    Apache SparkData and retrieval

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 3% of the role's postings. Of 18 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 6, part of the work in 7 and a bonus in 3.

    Employers naming it: Snowflake, MongoDB, Samsara, Instacart.

  11. 11
    SlurmML training and serving

    Often a bonus

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 12 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 1, part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 10.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Crusoe, Lambda, Together AI.

  12. 12
    Amazon RedshiftData and retrieval

    Mostly a requirement

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 10 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 5 and part of the work in 3.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Fivetran, Snowflake, Stripe.

  13. 13
    NetSuiteFinance, HR and contract systems

    Mostly a requirement

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 7 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 5 and a bonus in 2.

    Employers naming it: Stripe, Airwallex, Klaviyo, Ramp.

  14. 14
    Claude models (Anthropic API)Model APIs and platforms

    Mostly a requirement

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 5 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 3 and a bonus in 2.

    Employers naming it: Klaviyo, Databricks, Stripe, Typeface.

  15. 15
    WorkdayFinance, HR and contract systems

    Mostly a requirement

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 5 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 3, part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Ramp, DoorDash, Lyft, Stripe.

  16. 16
    Apache AirflowData and retrieval

    Mostly a requirement

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 4 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 4.

    Employers naming it: Crusoe, Databricks, Instacart, Snowflake.

  17. 17
    DatadogEvals and observability

    Mostly a requirement

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 4 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 3 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Crusoe, Instacart, Rogo, Snowflake.

  18. 18
    JiraSupport, success and project tools

    Often a bonus

    6%

    4 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 4 postings that name it, it is part of the work in 2 and a bonus in 2.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Datadog, Decagon, Glean.

  19. 19
    LlamaIndexAgent frameworks and SDKs

    Often a bonus

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 10 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 1, part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 8.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Databricks, Snowflake.

  20. 20
    SplunkEvals and observability

    Mostly a requirement

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 10 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 8 and a bonus in 2.

    Employers naming it: Datadog, Databricks, Snowflake.

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  1. 21
    Hugging FaceModel APIs and platforms

    Mostly a requirement

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 9 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 7.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Snowflake, Elastic.

  2. 22
    GenesysSupport, success and project tools

    Mostly a requirement

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 7 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 6 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Cresta, Vapi, Decagon.

  3. 23
    GrafanaEvals and observability

    Part of the day-to-day work

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 6 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2, part of the work in 3 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Fivetran, Snowflake, Crusoe.

  4. 24
    TensorFlowML training and serving

    Mostly a requirement

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 6 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 5 and part of the work in 1.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, CoreWeave, Snowflake.

  5. 25
    LangGraphAgent frameworks and SDKs

    Mostly a requirement

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 5 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 4 and part of the work in 1.

    Employers naming it: Arize AI, Databricks, Snowflake.

  6. 26
    Meta LlamaModel APIs and platforms

    Mostly a requirement

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 4 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2, part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Liquid AI, Typeface.

  7. 27
    ZendeskSupport, success and project tools

    Part of the day-to-day work

    5%

    3 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is part of the work in 2 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Datadog, Decagon, Glean.

  8. 28
    HadoopData and retrieval

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 7% of the role's postings. Of 49 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 43, part of the work in 3 and a bonus in 2.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Snowflake.

  9. 29
    dbtData and retrieval

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 4% of the role's postings. Of 27 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 5, part of the work in 12 and a bonus in 4.

    Employers naming it: Snowflake, Fivetran.

  10. 30
    pandasML training and serving

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 14 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 12 and part of the work in 2.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Snowflake.

  11. 31
    scikit-learnML training and serving

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 2% of the role's postings. Of 14 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 12 and part of the work in 2.

    Employers naming it: Databricks, Snowflake.

  12. 32
    JenkinsDeveloper platforms

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 8 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 7 and part of the work in 1.

    Employers naming it: Datadog, Snowflake.

  13. 33
    TableauAnalytics and BI

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 8 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 4, part of the work in 2 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Snowflake, Stripe.

  14. 34
    MySQLData and retrieval

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 7 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 6 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Fivetran, Supabase.

  15. 35
    PostgreSQLData and retrieval

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 7 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 7.

    Employers naming it: Fivetran, DoorDash.

  16. 36
    InformaticaData and retrieval

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 4 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Fivetran, Snowflake.

  17. 37
    LookerAnalytics and BI

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 4 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2, part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Snowflake, Stripe.

  18. 38
    OpenTelemetryEvals and observability

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in 1% of the role's postings. Of 4 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 4.

    Employers naming it: Snowflake, Datadog.

  19. 39
    CursorCoding agentsNew wave

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Stripe, Instacart.

  20. 40
    DSPyAgent frameworks and SDKs

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 3.

    Employers naming it: Arize AI, Databricks.

  21. 41
    MLflowML training and serving

    Often a bonus

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 1 and a bonus in 2.

    Employers naming it: Samsara, Crusoe.

  22. 42
    MetabaseAnalytics and BI

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 3.

    Employers naming it: Snowflake, Stripe.

  23. 43
    PrometheusEvals and observability

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Snowflake, Crusoe.

  24. 44
    TwilioDeveloper platforms

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 3.

    Employers naming it: Vapi, Decagon.

  25. 45
    VercelDeveloper platforms

    Mostly a requirement

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 3 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Stripe, Okta.

  26. 46
    CUDAML training and serving

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 2 postings that name it, it is part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Lambda.

  27. 47
    Claude (app)AI work toolsNew wave

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 2 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 1 and part of the work in 1.

    Employers naming it: Airbnb, Lyft.

  28. 48
    ConfluenceSupport, success and project tools

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 2 postings that name it, it is part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: CoreWeave, Glean.

  29. 49
    CoupaFinance, HR and contract systems

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 2 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2.

    Employers naming it: Klaviyo, Ramp.

  30. 50
    Gemini modelsModel APIs and platforms

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 2 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 2.

    Employers naming it: Stripe, Typeface.

  31. 51
    HubSpotSales and GTM stack

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 2 postings that name it, it is a requirement in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Klaviyo, Supabase.

  32. 52
    TensorRTML training and serving

    3%

    2 of 66 employers

    Named in <1% of the role's postings. Of 2 postings that name it, it is part of the work in 1 and a bonus in 1.

    Employers naming it: Lambda, Liquid AI.

On the radar

Newer AI tools that at least two employers already name in these postings. Small numbers, early signal.

Foundations these posts assume

Languages, platforms and basics most postings expect you to have already.

  • Python55%
  • AWS36%
  • Google Cloud35%
  • JavaScript32%
  • Microsoft Azure30%
  • Kubernetes27%
  • Java20%
  • CI/CD18%
  • TypeScript18%
  • Go17%
  • Terraform17%
  • Docker15%
  • SQL14%
  • Bash and shell scripting11%
  • Ruby11%
  • Linux and Unix11%
  • Node.js9%
  • Slack9%
  • React8%
  • C#6%
  • Ansible6%

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