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Career moves · 231,145 postings · 163 markets · 2026-07-16

Where can your career go next?

Search the role you're in. We count what employers ask for across 231,145 active postings, then show you the markets one step away: how big each one is, and exactly which skills you'd need to add.

What this is and isn't

Markets sit close together when employers on both sides ask for the same skills, measured across 350 normalized skills. This is not a record of people moving between them. That would need career histories we don't have. A close market also isn't automatically a good move. Skills counted are the ones postings list explicitly, so every figure is a floor.

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Machine Learning Engineer

570 open jobs·232 employers

10 markets are one step away

These are the 10 careers with the highest skill overlap with Machine Learning Engineer. Bigger circles mean more openings; careers closer to the center require fewer new skills.

Among nearby careers, Software Engineer has the most openings (7,054), while Member Of Technical Staff requires the fewest new skills.

Skill transition

How much each market's required skills differ from your
current role.

  • Very close4
  • Close6

Larger circles = more open jobs, from 143 to 7,054 here.

Tap a market to put it at the center.

The 10 markets closest to Machine Learning Engineer, ranked by how much their skills overlap with your current role. Distance from the center shows how different the required skills are, closer is a smaller change. Color is the transition band; circle size is open jobs.
  • Member Of Technical Staff

    from Machine Learning Engineer

    Excellent match

    Very close

    Among the 4 closest moves from Machine Learning Engineer.

    165

    openings in Member Of Technical Staff

    6

    skills you already have

    6

    skills to learn

    0

    skills to strengthen

    You already have

    Machine Learning EngineerMember Of Technical Staffshare of postings

    python

    75%66%

    ml

    100%50%

    llm

    39%32%

    pytorch

    64%19%

    deep learning

    36%12%

    tensorflow

    54%9%

    You'll need to learn

    • infrastructureasked for in 74% of Member Of Technical Staff postings
    • typescriptasked for in 15% of Member Of Technical Staff postings
    • full stackasked for in 15% of Member Of Technical Staff postings
    • total rewardsasked for in 15% of Member Of Technical Staff postings
    • valuationasked for in 10% of Member Of Technical Staff postings
    • postgresasked for in 10% of Member Of Technical Staff postings

    How much work is out there

    Machine Learning Engineer
    570
    Member Of Technical Staff
    165

    This market has 3.5x fewer postings than yours.

    Smaller than the market you're in, but 6 of the skills it asks for are ones you already have.

    What to do next

    1. 1 · Learn

      infrastructure

      Asked for in 74% of Member Of Technical Staff postings, and 5 other new skills.

    2. 2 · Look at the work

      165 Member Of Technical Staff postings

      Observed active in this snapshot.

    570 Machine Learning Engineer postings · 165 Member Of Technical Staff postings · 350 normalized skills · snapshot 2026-07-16

Methodology

What is this based on?

231,145 live job postings from 28,870 employers across 163 markets, captured 2026-07-16. Skills come from each posting's stated requirements.

How is distance calculated?

Each market becomes a profile of the skills its postings request, and markets are compared by how much those profiles overlap (an IDF-weighted cosine similarity, so skills that appear in almost every role count for less). The closest markets sit nearest the center, grouped into five bands from Very close to Different field.

What do the skill lists mean?

Shared skills are the ones both roles commonly ask for. Skills to learn are the ones the target market asks for that your current role doesn't, ranked by how much more often they come up.

What isn't included?

Years of experience, seniority, salary, portfolio or certification requirements, or how competitive a role is to land. Skill overlap is one axis of a move, not the whole picture.

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