Last updated: 2026-06-01
Snapshot: 2026-06-01 · Total jobs: 8,869 · Companies indexed: 520 · Classified by level: 8,869 · Median salary: $215,000
Headline stat: only 6.6% of classified AI/ML roles are open to juniors. For every 1 junior role, there are 10.1 senior-plus roles.
Live data from aidevboard.com/api/v1/stats — free public API, no auth, refreshed daily across 560+ ATS sources.
| Experience level | Role count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Junior / Entry-level | 586 | 6.6% |
| Mid | 2,344 | 26.4% |
| Senior | 3,016 | 34.0% |
| Lead / Staff | 2,363 | 26.6% |
| Principal | 560 | 6.3% |
| Company | Sampled postings | Junior titles | Junior share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lila Sciences | 23 | 6 | 26% |
| 15 | 5 | 33% | |
| May Mobility | 16 | 5 | 31% |
| Torc Robotics | 13 | 4 | 31% |
| Waymo | 61 | 3 | 5% |
Experience-level mix is drawn from the live /api/v1/stats endpoint (experience_levels array). Per-company junior counts in the table use a title-regex fallback over a paginated walk of /api/v1/jobs (up to 30 pages of 50). Junior-title markers: junior, jr, entry-level, new grad, associate, intern, early career. Titles containing senior/staff/principal/lead etc. are dropped from the junior bucket regardless of other markers. Salary data triangulated from the salary.distribution buckets — the stats endpoint does not expose salary by experience band directly.
- Live API: https://aidevboard.com/api/v1/stats (JSON, public)
- Research note: https://8bitconcepts.com/research/q2-2026-entry-level-ai-gap.html
- Sibling dataset: Top AI Companies Hiring
- Sibling dataset: AI Compensation by Skill
- Sibling dataset: AI Workplace (remote vs onsite)
- Sibling dataset: MCP Ecosystem Health
- Auto-regenerated: weekly via
tools/regenerate-entry-level-gap.py - License: CC BY 4.0 — attribution to 8bitconcepts + aidevboard.com