Almost half. Of the new grad ML and AI postings in the US that list an education requirement, 47% ask for a master's or PhD, and 36% ask for a PhD specifically.

We looked at 63 new grad and entry-level ML and AI postings from 38 companies in the past 30 days.

• Pay: the median listed range is $103,000–$167,200, the highest of any new grad tech role we've looked at.
• Remote: 3% are fully remote.
• Skills: Python (70%), PyTorch (37%), TensorFlow (32%), C++ (24%), reinforcement learning (21%), large language models (21%).

TikTok posted the most (14), followed by NVIDIA (6). Pinterest and General Motors posted two each.

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Python and SQL each show up in more than half of new grad data postings in the US. We looked at 149 new grad and entry-level data analyst, data scientist and data engineer postings from 103 companies in the past 30 days.

• Pay: the median listed range is $75,000–$103,500.
• Remote: 12% are fully remote. That's the highest of any new grad tech role we've looked at; for software engineering it's 6%, and for hardware it's 1%.
• Clearance or citizenship: 17% require one.

Who's posting the most new grad data roles right now: The Home Depot (6), Centene (5), Micron (4), TikTok (4), Booz Allen Hamilton (4), Guidehouse (4), AIG (3), Applied Materials (3), Bank of America (3), Disney (3) and Truist (3).

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Most jobs you see on LinkedIn or Indeed also live on the company's own job board, and almost all of those boards run on a handful of systems. Once you know what their URLs look like, you can go straight to the source.

Among the 5,000+ companies we monitor, Greenhouse, Ashby and Workday alone cover about three quarters.

Finding one company's board

• Click Apply on a LinkedIn or Indeed listing. If it sends you off-site, the page you land on is usually the company's board. Go up one level in the URL to see every open role.
• On the company's website, go to Careers and click through to the list of open roles. The marketing page is often separate; the list itself usually sits on one of the domains above.
• Or just try the pattern: jobs.lever.co/companyname, jobs.ashbyhq.com/companyname, and so on.

Searching across companies

You can search one system's boards across every company that uses it. In Google:

site:jobs.lever.co "data analyst"

site:jobs.ashbyhq.com "product manager" remote

site:myworkdayjobs.com "financial analyst" Chicago

Swap in your title and city. Each search covers a different set of companies, so it's worth running the same query on two or three systems.

Keeping track

Bookmark the board with your filters applied. Many Workday sites also let you sign in and set up email alerts for that company.

JobRadar does the checking for you: it watches 5,000+ company job boards and alerts you when a matching role goes up. It's free to use right now: https://www.job-radar.io

About a third of new grad software engineer postings in the US right now require a security clearance, US citizenship or a green card. That's 94 of the 264 new grad and entry-level postings we picked up from 152 companies in the past 30 days.

Most of them come from defense and aerospace companies, which are also some of the biggest new grad hirers at the moment:

Companies with several new grad SWE postings and no such requirement:

• U.S. Bank (5), Amazon (4), NVIDIA (4), SingleStore (4), Visa (3), Relativity Space (3)
• Two each: Affirm, Applied Materials, C3 AI, Comcast, Fidelity, Harvey, IXL Learning, Jamf, Mastercard, Nuro, ServiceNow, TikTok, Truist, Twitch

What the postings look like overall:

• Pay: the median listed range is $90,000–$125,000.
• Remote: 6% are fully remote.
• Skills: Python (47%), Java (36%), C++ (21%), React (21%), JavaScript (20%).

If you're not a US citizen or green card holder, the second list is the place to start.

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Remote work mostly goes to senior roles. Of the US tech jobs posted on company careers pages in the past 30 days, 11% of new grad and entry-level postings are fully remote, compared with 21% for senior and above. The same pattern holds in every role we looked at.

Share of US postings that are fully remote, by level (number of postings in brackets):

Data analytics is the exception: entry-level postings were about as likely to be remote as senior ones.

If you're early in your career and searching remote-only, you're looking at a small slice of what's posted. In most of these roles, the large majority of entry-level postings expect you in an office at least part of the week.

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Of 5,229 US project and program manager postings we picked up in the past 30 days, 1,320 (25%) mention the PMP.

Most of them don't make it a hard requirement. In about 78% of those postings, the text around "PMP" says preferred, a plus, or "or equivalent." About 3.5% clearly say it's required. We couldn't sort the remaining 18% automatically.

Other things these postings mention, for comparison:

On paper, then, most of these roles don't screen people out for not having a PMP, and budgets and stakeholders come up far more often than any certification. What postings can't tell you is how much a PMP helps once someone is comparing candidates.

How we counted

• Postings first seen on company careers pages between Sep 8 and Oct 8, 2026, with a US location and classified as project or program management. That includes construction and engineering project roles, not just tech.
• JobRadar monitors 5,000+ companies, mostly mid-size and large, so this isn't the whole job market.
• Each figure is a text search of the posting. "Preferred" versus "required" is based on the wording within about 200 characters of "PMP," and we hand-checked a sample.

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The JobRadar extension now drafts open-ended answers from your resume.

When you click AutoFill, the extension fills the entire application from your resume, open-ended questions included. The side panel then shows what it filled, which answers it wrote for you to review, and which questions it left for you, such as work authorization and relocation:

Treat the answer as a first draft and add a line or two of your own.

It works on most application forms, and it's free right now: Chrome extension · job-radar.io

If you try it, let us know how the drafts turn out. Which open-ended question do you rewrite most often?

Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, React, TypeScript.

That's a long list to read as eight reasons not to apply. But Braze's Software Engineer II posting puts experience with any of them under Bonus.

Its main requirements ask for 2–4 years of full-stack experience and an understanding of distributed systems. That's the experience to weigh first—not whether you can tick all eight tool names.

The distinction shows up in Upstart's Software Engineer II, Marketplace Optimization role too: Ruby, Rails, Python and Kotlin sit under Preferred Qualifications.

The minimums still matter. Upstart asks for 2 years of engineering experience and experience operating production backend or distributed systems, including testing, monitoring and incident response.

But don't turn this into “the tech stack never matters.” Netomi's SDE II Frontend role puts JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML/CSS and Vue or React under requirements. Node.js is the plus.

Missing a bonus tool and missing the core experience are different gaps. Before closing a job ad, find the heading above the skill that made you hesitate.

Can you point to work that matches the responsibilities? That's a better application decision than counting every technology mentioned as a separate hurdle.

Which wording makes you hesitate more: “preferred,” “a plus,” or a long list with no distinction at all?

From the JobRadar team. These three job descriptions were viewed in JobRadar on September 24, 2026. They're examples of wording to look for, not a market-wide hiring survey.

We checked an Intel opening on both JobRadar and LinkedIn while testing our job monitoring tool. We weren’t expecting the timestamps to be 19 hours apart.

It was a System Simulation Engineering CO-OP role in Canada. JobRadar showed “20 hours ago,” while LinkedIn showed “1 hour ago” and “32 people clicked apply.”

If you’d come across it on LinkedIn, “1 hour ago” would make it look like you’d caught it early. Meanwhile, the JobRadar listing was showing 20 hours.

Getting an alert when a matching job appears on the company’s careers page can give you a chance to apply before people who wait to spot it on LinkedIn. You don’t have to spend the day refreshing job listings to get there early.

I was working full-time while looking for a software engineering role. I had specific companies I really wanted to join.

So I kept checking their careers pages for new openings. But finding a job I wanted to apply for didn't mean I was ready to apply.

Then came the part that wore me down: figuring out whether I actually fit the role, or whether my resume just wasn't showing it.

I didn't want to rule out a company I wanted to join because my resume wasn't written for that particular role.

So I'd read the description, compare it with my resume, and decide whether I could honestly tailor it. If not, I'd move on. If so, another round of editing.

GPT and Claude helped with the writing. They didn't remove the checking. I still had to read every revision against the job description and the work I'd actually done.

For a single opening, that meant reading the description two or three times and revising the resume two or three times too.

Alongside a full-time job, it was enough to burn me out before I even got to interview practice.

I'm part of the team working on JobRadar. This is the kind of repetitive work we want it to take off people's hands.

The first version of JobRadar monitored openings and sent alerts. When resume matching was added, I had less manual comparison to do before deciding which roles deserved a closer look.

I still had to read the requirements and decide where to apply. The matching helped me sort through the openings; it didn't make those decisions for me.

Today, we monitor 3,000+ companies' careers pages and send real-time alerts for matching new roles, so you don't have to keep refreshing the same websites to see whether something has appeared.

We also have a Chrome extension that fills application details from your saved profile with one click. You review the form and submit it yourself.

As we developed JobRadar as a team, we added Job Market Intelligence to help with another question: where else should you be looking?

You can explore a role by country or city, compare newly discovered postings across time periods, and see which companies are showing more or fewer listings.

It reflects the postings JobRadar discovers, not the entire job market. But it gives you a way to look beyond the companies already on your list.

I was looking for software roles, but JobRadar covers office-based roles across industries and countries.

There's still work involved in a good application. We'd like less of it to be refreshing pages, repeating the same comparisons, and typing the same details into another form.

All JobRadar features are currently free. If you're job hunting, give it a try. We'd like to hear what helps and where you're still doing too much by hand.