Data Brief

Identifying the AI Development Workforce

Sonali Subbu Rathinam

and Ronnie Kinoshita

June 2026

Existing measures of the AI workforce often group together a broad set of AI-related roles with varying skill requirements. This report focuses on the AI development workforce and describes our methodology for identifying AI development jobs and estimating AI development employment. It presents initial findings on the size and share of AI development jobs in the U.S. labor market. Regional breakdowns of AI development jobs are available in PATHWISE, CSET's emerging technology talent tracking tool.

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