robustness jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-09-30, robustness appears in 90 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Applied Researcher has the most postings mentioning robustness.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-09-30
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Frequently asked questions about robustness
+Is robustness in demand in 2026?
Yes. robustness appears in 90 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Applied Researcher accounts for the most postings mentioning robustness (17.8% of all postings mentioning robustness).
+What jobs require robustness?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning robustness are Applied Researcher (38.1% of that role’s postings mention robustness), Senior Data Scientist (3.7% of that role’s postings mention robustness), Researcher (3.2% of that role’s postings mention robustness).
+What skills are commonly paired with robustness?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-09-30), robustness most often appears alongside machine learning, PyTorch, explainability, deep learning, RLHF.
+Where is robustness most in demand?
As of 2026-09-30, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring robustness are San Francisco, London, Mountain View, New York City, Munich, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new robustness content and jobs?
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+Which skills come before and after robustness?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring robustness — last 90 days
Career paths around robustness
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before robustness
Skills after robustness
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: python | 2 |
| Before: data analysis | 2 |
| Before: Asynchronous support | 1 |
| Before: Slack | 1 |
| Before: NLP | 1 |
| Before: open-source projects | 1 |
| Before: processing of nuclear materials | 1 |
| Before: news articles | 1 |
| After: FAISS | 1 |
| After: vulnerability findings | 1 |
| After: Transformer-based multimodal fusion | 1 |
| After: agentic-ai | 1 |
| After: Ransomware defense | 1 |
| After: risk assessment | 1 |
| After: Google Trends | 1 |
| After: Experiment | 1 |
Roles most likely to require robustness
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Researcher | 16 | 38.1% |
| Senior Data Scientist | 1 | 3.7% |
| Researcher | 2 | 3.2% |
| Machine Learning Researcher | 1 | 2.6% |
| AI Research Scientist | 2 | 2.5% |
| AI Scientist | 2 | 2.3% |
| AI Systems Engineer | 1 | 2.2% |
| AI Researcher | 2 | 1.7% |
| Machine Learning Scientist | 2 | 1.4% |
| AI Research Engineer | 1 | 1.0% |
Roles with the most robustness postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Applied Researcher | 16 | 17.8% |
| Machine Learning Engineer | 7 | 7.8% |
| Research Scientist | 7 | 7.8% |
| AI Governance & Regulatory Risk Expert | 5 | 5.6% |
| ML Engineer | 5 | 5.6% |
| Software Engineer | 5 | 5.6% |
| Data Scientist | 4 | 4.4% |
| Machine Learning Research Scientist | 3 | 3.3% |
| AI Research Scientist | 2 | 2.2% |
| AI Researcher | 2 | 2.2% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring robustness
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| Capital One | 16 |
| Capco | 5 |
| Bosch | 4 |
| Faculty | 3 |
| GEHA | 3 |
| Scale AI | 3 |
| ServiceNow | 3 |
| The New York Times | 2 |
| OpenAI | 2 |
| CLERA | 2 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for robustness
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| San Francisco | 6 | 6.7% |
| London | 4 | 4.4% |
| Mountain View | 4 | 4.4% |
| New York City | 4 | 4.4% |
| Munich | 3 | 3.3% |
| Boston | 2 | 2.2% |
| Livermore | 2 | 2.2% |
| Pittsburgh | 2 | 2.2% |
| Alameda | 1 | 1.1% |
Skills commonly paired with robustness
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How this was computed
Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-09-30. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning robustness by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s robustness postings by all robustness postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). An adjusted trend is not shown because comparable posting coverage is insufficient.
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- Skillenai jobs index, deduplicated daily
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- 16359e432f7793b7
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- 2026-09-30
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- 90
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