TensorFlow

Google’s deep learning framework. Once the default; now mostly named alongside PyTorch or in teams with older production models.

Hiring data as of September 20, 2026 · refreshed daily

companies naming it: 6 of 47companies naming it
open roles naming it: 19open roles naming it
of those based in NYC: 4of those based in NYC
pay: under 8 posted ranges: —pay: under 8 posted ranges

What TensorFlow means

TensorFlow is an open-source framework for building and deploying neural networks, with strong tooling for mobile and embedded deployment. Research moved largely to PyTorch, but a great deal of production machine learning built before that shift still runs on TensorFlow.

TensorFlow in New York job posts

6 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name TensorFlow in at least one open role today, across 19 postings. 4 of those are based in New York; the rest are remote or in the companies’ other offices.

This is engineering vocabulary: 63% of the postings that name it are Engineering roles.

Attentive alone accounts for 10 of the 19 postings, which is why we lead with the company count: one employer’s hiring push should not read as a market trend.

How to read it

Almost always written as “PyTorch or TensorFlow”. On its own it suggests an established ML team maintaining earlier models. Either way the requirement is fluency in a deep learning framework, and the skills transfer.

What these roles pay

Not enough data to publish. We need at least eight distinct posted salary ranges on New York roles naming TensorFlow before showing a median, and today there are fewer. For posted pay by function and seniority across the whole market, use the NYC salary calculator or the NYC AI engineer salary guide.

Companies naming TensorFlow, daily

Count of companies with at least one open role naming the term. We read between 47 and 48 companies a day over this period, so a move of one or two is noise.

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Date	companies
2026-08-17	7
2026-08-18	7
2026-08-19	6
2026-08-20	6
2026-08-21	6
2026-08-22	6
2026-08-23	6
2026-08-24	6
2026-08-25	6
2026-08-26	6
2026-08-27	6
2026-08-28	6
2026-08-29	6
2026-08-30	6
2026-08-31	6
2026-09-01	6
2026-09-02	6
2026-09-03	6
2026-09-04	6
2026-09-05	6
2026-09-06	6
2026-09-07	6
2026-09-08	6
2026-09-09	6
2026-09-10	6
2026-09-11	6
2026-09-12	6
2026-09-13	6
2026-09-14	6
2026-09-15	5
2026-09-16	5
2026-09-17	5
2026-09-18	5
2026-09-19	6
2026-09-20	6

Who names it

Open roles naming TensorFlow, by company.

Attentive10
AlphaSense5
Comet1
Hume AI1
Runway1
SmarterDx1

Which roles

The same postings, by function and by seniority.

Engineering12
GTM6
Research1

Mid7
Senior7
Staff/Principal5

Named alongside TensorFlow

Terms that appear in the same postings far more often than chance would put them there. The number is how many of the 6 companies pair the two.

Hugging Face 2
PyTorch 6
Apache Airflow 2
Computer vision 2
Kotlin 2
Java 3
Apache Kafka 2
Kubernetes 4
TypeScript 2
Machine learning 6

Open roles naming TensorFlow

A sample from today’s data, New York roles first and one per company before any repeats. Links go to the employer’s own posting. For the full market, see AI jobs in NYC.

Principal Software Engineer, Machine Learning ↗Attentive · New York, NY
Senior Software Engineer - Backend & Machine Learning ↗Hume AI · New York, New York, United States
Join AlphaSense Helsinki Talent Community! ↗AlphaSense · Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Member of Technical Staff, Applied Research Scientist ↗Runway · Remote
Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning ↗SmarterDx · Remote (United States)
Technical Account Manager (TAM) ↗Comet · USA, Remote
Senior Machine Learning Engineer ↗Attentive · New York, NY
Join AlphaSense India Talent Community ↗AlphaSense · Delhi

How this is counted

Every day we read the open roles on the public job boards of the New York AI companies in our coverage — the NYC AI 100 and the AI in NYC Show roster. This term is matched against each role’s description after removing the text a company repeats across its postings, so an “About us” paragraph cannot tag every role the company has open. A vendor’s own postings never count toward its own name.

The figure means named in a job posting. It does not mean used in production, and a “nice to have” counts the same as a requirement. Companies are the headline number because posting counts are dominated by whichever few employers are hiring hardest this month.

Full method, including the pay rules, is on the glossary index; the underlying series is the NYC AI Hiring Index.

TensorFlow — common questions

What does TensorFlow mean in an AI job posting?

Google’s deep learning framework. Once the default; now mostly named alongside PyTorch or in teams with older production models. Almost always written as “PyTorch or TensorFlow”. On its own it suggests an established ML team maintaining earlier models. Either way the requirement is fluency in a deep learning framework, and the skills transfer.

How many New York AI companies are hiring for TensorFlow?

As of September 20, 2026, 6 of the 47 New York AI companies we track name TensorFlow in the description of at least one open role, across 19 postings (4 based in New York). The count refreshes daily from the companies’ own job boards.

What do roles that ask for TensorFlow pay in New York?

We do not publish a pay figure for TensorFlow yet. Fewer than eight New York postings naming it carry a distinct posted salary range, and below that number a median says more about two or three employers than about the market.

Which skills are asked for alongside TensorFlow?

In the same postings, the terms most distinctively paired with TensorFlow are Hugging Face, PyTorch, Apache Airflow, Computer vision, Kotlin. We rank pairings by how much more often they appear together than apart, so near-universal terms such as Python do not crowd out the informative ones.

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