Causal-jobs: What is the status of causal inference in the European job market?

It’s 2022 and the causal revolution is gaining serious traction. AI gurus are advocating for the inclusion of causal reasoning in AI systems and posit causality as the next frontier for AI. The citations of prominent figures of the field are soaring.

As you hear researchers raving, you might however be wondering: is the industry ready for it?

This is a question I’ve been asking myself for a long time. Sure, all these new conferences and perspective papers on causality definitely confess that there is indeed something big going on in the research community. But is the industry keeping up?

This is why I decided to pursue the causal-jobs project. I wanted to know who & where is looking to hire you for your causal knowledge. I wanted a persistent database of causal vacancies that is automatically augmented with the most recent jobs posted on the internet. From this, I wanted to analyze the data and find patterns in terms of countries, companies, or even the actual job titles that contain “causal inference” somewhere in the job description.

And you can now find out too! Thanks to a daily ETL process I have developed, most of the causal-jobs posted on the internet will end up on a database that is automatically analyzed once a week, producing a report with all the relevant insights. For now, only jobs posted anywhere in the European Union are included.

So, if you do have (or planning to invest time in) causal skills, do(check) the most recent version of the report! For more info, take a look at the Portfolio project. Code is also on Github.