How many Generative AI Engineer jobs are open?

We currently track 7 active Generative AI Engineer job postings from 2 companies (dataset: public employer career pages, updated Sep 29, 2026).

What skills does a Generative AI Engineer need?

The most requested skills in current Generative AI Engineer postings are: Evaluation, System Design, SQL, LLM, Python, Inference Optimization.

Generative AI Engineer

Builds systems that generate text, images, audio or video with generative models.

Also seen as: GenAI Engineer, Generative AI Developer

open jobs tracked

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Market status: growing · Last updated Sep 29, 2026 · Source: public employer job postings tracked by AI Career Observatory

What does a Generative AI Engineer do?

Generative AI Engineers build products around generative models: content generation pipelines, image and video synthesis systems, creative tooling and multimodal applications. The role blends AI engineering with media, performance and cost optimization for generation workloads.

Job titles we classify into this role

Real, current titles from tracked postings — role names vary by employer; this is what a Generative AI Engineer actually looks like in the market right now.

Engineering Manager, Customer Platform (GenAI) Scale AI
GenAI Compliance Operations & Programs Associate Scale AI
Infrastructure Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI Scale AI
Staff Software Engineer - GenAI Performance and Kernel Databricks
Staff Software Engineer - GenAI inference Databricks
Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI Scale AI
Strategic Projects Lead, Generative AI Scale AI

Title variants normalized into this role: GenAI Engineer · Generative AI Developer — plus employer-specific patterns matched with evidence. See classification methodology.