AI job search for the US market

On 30 September, 65% of the software engineer jobs in the United States in our pool had a senior or lead title, and under 1% said junior or entry level. Product manager, data scientist and DevOps ads showed the same shape, at 60 to 65% senior.

Sales and customer-facing roles look different: only 18% of sales-manager ads and 19% of account-manager ads carried a senior title. The practical point for an early-career candidate in tech is that the title alone overstates the openings; the level line decides most of them.

Read level through scope rather than the title. US titles vary widely between start-ups, public companies and sectors, and the same word can mean a different level from one employer to the next.

US employers usually hire remotely only in the states where they are set up to employ people for payroll and tax. Some ads list the eligible or excluded states; others ask for a time-zone overlap or regular office days. Read the location section, not the word remote in the title.

Remote varies a lot by role in our pool: 40% of sales-manager ads said remote, often a sales territory, against 14% of software-engineer ads and 1% of electrical engineer ads. And on every one of the 17 US pages most ads did not state a work mode at all, so a remote-only filter drops the majority. Include the cities you would commute to.

Ads may say that sponsorship is available, unavailable, or considered for some roles only. That is an eligibility question and should end the check when it fails, however good the rest of the match is.

Use the employer's latest wording and answer the application questions accurately. A matching tool cannot grant eligibility or infer an exception the employer has not published, and no score should be read as one. The check for whether you are qualified puts this first for that reason.

Several states, including California, Colorado, New York and Washington, require a pay range in the job ad, and many employers now publish one nationally as a result. When the range is there, read it before the requirements: it tells you the level the employer has in mind more reliably than the title.

When it is missing, the level line and the scope bullets are the best evidence of what the role pays, and a question for the first call.

MatchRadar reads your CV and the preferences you confirm once: the cities you would work in, whether remote is fine, and whether you would relocate. Every weekday night it compares new postings with the whole CV and e-mails the few that fit at 08:30 your time, each with the requirements you meet, the partial ones and the gaps. It never applies for you.

Its US postings come mostly from employers' own career sites, which skews towards larger companies, plus a few aggregators; it does not read LinkedIn. The jobs by role and country pages show what the pool holds, refreshed from the live data. One plan, a seven-day trial and no card (pricing).