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AI Engineer resume keywords

Core keywords are the skill list on the AI Engineer resume example. Supporting keywords are skills-catalog entries that name this role.

See the matching AI Engineer resume example. For which applicant tracking systems large employers use, read the State of ATS 2026 report.

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Counted on 2026-10-10 from 140 public job postings whose titles match AI Engineer. Those postings came from Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, and SmartRecruiters. A posting is counted for this role when the longest published job-title phrase in its title is AI Engineer. The crawl queried Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, and SmartRecruiters for 133 employers in the State of ATS 2026 dataset that use those vendors, and for 279 additional public boards from the extended coverage tier. The extended boards are not part of the 738-company statistics. 361 boards returned postings out of 412 boards attempted, and 46923 postings were scanned. HTML was stripped before counting, and each posting counts once per term. Phrases beyond the published skill list are the most common two- and three-word phrases in the matched postings. Posting text is not stored. A role page shows these percentages only when at least 30 descriptions were counted.

Core keywords

These are the terms to put on the resume when they match work you have done.

  • LLMs

    22% of 140 recent postings mention LLMs.

  • Python

    67% of 140 recent postings mention Python.

  • Prompt Engineering

    14% of 140 recent postings mention Prompt Engineering.

  • RAG

    19% of 140 recent postings mention RAG.

  • Vector Databases

    5% of 140 recent postings mention Vector Databases.

  • OpenAI

    31% of 140 recent postings mention OpenAI.

  • LangChain

    16% of 140 recent postings mention LangChain.

  • Fine-tuning

    18% of 140 recent postings mention Fine-tuning.

  • NLP

    4% of 140 recent postings mention NLP.

  • Transformers

    1% of 140 recent postings mention Transformers.

Supporting keywords
Phrases from recent postings

These phrases showed up often in the matched postings and are not already on the published skill list.

  • software engineering

    49% of 140 recent postings mention software engineering.

  • computer science

    40% of 140 recent postings mention computer science.

  • engineering teams

    36% of 140 recent postings mention engineering teams.

  • genetic information

    36% of 140 recent postings mention genetic information.

  • please see

    35% of 140 recent postings mention please see.

  • real world

    34% of 140 recent postings mention real world.

  • additional information

    32% of 140 recent postings mention additional information.

  • long term

    31% of 140 recent postings mention long term.

Where to place them

  1. 1

    Headline

    Put the target title and two core terms on the line under your name: AI Engineer | LLMs | Python.

  2. 2

    Skills

    List the core terms together in the skills section: LLMs, Python, Prompt Engineering, RAG, Vector Databases, OpenAI, LangChain, Fine-tuning, NLP, Transformers.

  3. 3

    Experience

    Use LLMs, Python, Prompt Engineering inside bullets for work you did in this role, next to the result.

  4. 4

    Supporting terms

    Add these in the skills section or a bullet when you have used them: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, TensorFlow, PyTorch.

Sample lines from the resume example

These lines are already published on the AI Engineer resume example. Use them as a pattern for where a keyword sits next to a result, and replace the details with your own.

  • Built RAG-based AI assistant reducing customer support tickets by 40% and saving $1.5M annually
  • Fine-tuned LLMs on domain-specific data achieving 92% accuracy on specialized tasks
  • Designed prompt engineering framework adopted by 5 product teams for AI feature development
  • Implemented vector search system processing 1M+ documents with sub-second retrieval

Questions about AI Engineer keywords

What keywords should a AI Engineer resume include?

Core keywords for a AI Engineer resume are LLMs, Python, Prompt Engineering, RAG, Vector Databases, OpenAI, LangChain, Fine-tuning, NLP, Transformers. Core keywords are the skill list on the AI Engineer resume example. Supporting keywords are skills-catalog entries that name this role. Percentages are the share of 140 public postings fetched on 2026-10-10 whose titles match this role.

Where should AI Engineer keywords go on a resume?

Headline: Put the target title and two core terms on the line under your name: AI Engineer | LLMs | Python. Skills: List the core terms together in the skills section: LLMs, Python, Prompt Engineering, RAG, Vector Databases, OpenAI, LangChain, Fine-tuning, NLP, Transformers. Experience: Use LLMs, Python, Prompt Engineering inside bullets for work you did in this role, next to the result. Supporting terms: Add these in the skills section or a bullet when you have used them: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, TensorFlow, PyTorch.

How do I check a AI Engineer resume?

Open the free ATS checker with AI Engineer prefilled, paste your resume, and compare it with the keyword list on this page.

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