Forward Deployed EngineerAn engineer who ships software inside a customer's environment, part builder and part consultant; Palantir coined it, AI labs made it common.
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Solutions EngineerThe technical half of a sale: demos, proofs of concept and integration help.
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Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.
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AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.
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Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.
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Product ManagerDecides what gets built and why, and gets it shipped.
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Technical Program ManagerCoordinates complex cross-functional technical initiatives and drives engineering delivery across teams.
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Platform EngineerBuilds the internal platform other engineers deploy on: clusters, CI, paved roads.
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Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.
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Research ScientistDesigns and runs experiments to push what models can do; usually a PhD role.
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Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.
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Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.
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