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Titles on the rise

New and growing job titles in data, AI and tech, newest first: 15 first seen in the last 12 months (10 in the last 6), 21 more rising. Each links to why it exists and where it is posted. See the timeline.

36 of 36 titles, newest first, then fastest rising

TitleOpen roles
GTM Strategy & Operations AnalystUnverifiedNewSince Aug 20264
AI Operations EngineerUnverifiedNewSince Aug 20263
Context EngineerNewSince Aug 20262
Forward Deployed ArchitectUnverifiedNewSince Jul 20266
Chief AI OfficerNewSince Jul 20260
AI Enablement EngineerUnverifiedNewSince Jun 20264
AI Systems EngineerUnverifiedNewSince May 20265
AI TrainerUnverifiedNewSince May 20264
Agent StrategistUnverifiedNewSince Mar 20269
AI Deployment ManagerUnverifiedNewSince Mar 20266
AI ArchitectUnverifiedNewSince Feb 20265
AI StrategistUnverifiedNewSince Jan 20268
Autonomy EngineerUnverifiedNewSince Dec 202521
Evals EngineerNewSince Dec 202514
Robotics EngineerUnverifiedNewSince Oct 202521
Member of Technical Staff+171%Since Aug 2015201
Forward Deployed Engineer+138%Since Dec 2009465
Research Engineer+103%Before 2011155
Applied AI Engineer+46%Since Sep 201762
Security Engineer+43%Since Jun 2011325
Robotics Software EngineerUnverifiedUp from 0Since Mar 202542
AI ScientistUnverifiedUp from 0Since Feb 20253
AI TutorUnverifiedUp from 0Since Jul 202025
AI Deployment EngineerUnverifiedUp from 0Since Jun 201330
Legal EngineerUnverified+11%Since Nov 201730
AI Engineer+9%Since Jun 2011174
Agent EngineerEmergingSince Sep 2016106
AI Engagement ManagerUnverifiedEmergingSince Aug 20254
Forward Deployed StrategistUnverifiedEmergingSince Mar 20252
GTM EngineerEmergingSince Jul 202125
Applied AI ArchitectUnverifiedEmergingSince Dec 202455
AI Red TeamerEmergingSince Aug 20241
LLMOps EngineerEmergingSince Jul 20241
Machine Learning ScientistUnverifiedEmergingSince May 202412
AI Product ManagerEmergingSince May 201758
Deployment StrategistUnverifiedEmergingSince Dec 201280

First seen: the earliest posting we hold, a Hacker News Who is hiring post (since April 2011) or a company job board. The dashed mark on each line is that first sighting.

Rose, then fell

Under half of their best year now
Title6 mo change
Engineering ManagerFading ·3.5% of posts · 510 open · since Nov 2011+18%
Data ScientistFading ·2.1% of posts · 203 open · since May 2011+2%
Site Reliability EngineerFading ·3.1% of posts · 185 open · since Apr 2011-20%
DevOps EngineerFading ·2.1% of posts · 39 open · since Apr 2011-28%
Data AnalystFading ·0.70% of posts · 70 open · since Apr 2011-52%
Blockchain EngineerFading ·0.29% of posts · 1 open · since Apr 2015-
Computer Vision EngineerFading ·0.26% of posts · 11 open · since Jun 2012-
Head of DataFading ·0.29% of posts · 18 open · since Dec 2011-
Big Data EngineerFading ·0% of posts · since Dec 2011-
Deep Learning EngineerFading ·0.06% of posts · 2 open · since Apr 2016-
NLP EngineerFading ·0.05% of posts · since May 2011-
The emerging radar
6 mo12 mo24 mo36 moEngineeringResearchProductLeadership12456891014151718202224252730323331119262931341213162123287
  1. 1Evals EngineerSep 2026
  2. 2Context EngineerSep 2026
  3. 3Model Behavior DesignerSep 2026
  4. 4GTM Strategy & Operations AnalystAug 2026
  5. 5AI Operations EngineerAug 2026
  6. 6Forward Deployed ArchitectJul 2026
  7. 7Chief AI OfficerJul 2026
  8. 8Legal EngineerJun 2026
  9. 9AI Enablement EngineerJun 2026
  10. 10AI Systems EngineerMay 2026
  11. 11AI TrainerMay 2026
  12. 12Agent StrategistMar 2026
  13. 13AI Deployment ManagerMar 2026
  14. 14AI ArchitectFeb 2026
  15. 15AI Deployment EngineerJan 2026
  16. 16AI StrategistJan 2026
  17. 17Autonomy EngineerDec 2025
  18. 18Forward Deployed EngineerOct 2025
  19. 19AI TutorOct 2025
  20. 20Robotics EngineerOct 2025
  21. 21AI Engagement ManagerAug 2025
  22. 22Agent EngineerJul 2025
  23. 23AI Product ManagerMay 2025
  24. 24GTM EngineerMay 2025
  25. 25Applied AI EngineerApr 2025
  26. 26Member of Technical StaffMar 2025
  27. 27Robotics Software EngineerMar 2025
  28. 28Forward Deployed StrategistMar 2025
  29. 29AI ScientistFeb 2025
  30. 30Applied AI ArchitectDec 2024
  31. 31AI Red TeamerAug 2024
  32. 32LLMOps EngineerJul 2024
  33. 33AI EngineerMay 2024
  34. 34Machine Learning ScientistMay 2024
Took off on Hacker NewsNew on job boards, unverifiedNearer the centre is newer; bigger has more open roles

Read from 672 sources so far (+355 job boards in the last 30 days), growing every run.

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