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AI Operations EngineerUnverifiedBuilds and runs the AI agents and automations a company's own teams use, from finance and legal to partnerships, and keeps them working.NewSince Aug 20265
GTM Enablement ManagerUnverifiedTrains and coaches salespeople and other customer-facing teams through workshops, role plays and programs that lift sales results.NewSince Aug 20262
Data Center EngineerUnverifiedKeeps data center hardware running, from servers and network to power and cooling, and models where the load can safely go.NewSince Aug 20262
Context EngineerDesigns what a model sees: retrieval, memory, tools and instructions assembled into the context window.NewSince Aug 20261
GTM Strategy & Operations AnalystUnverifiedTracks a sales organization's numbers, turns them into insight for sales leaders and runs the weekly to quarterly business reviews.NewSince Aug 20261
Forward Deployed ArchitectUnverifiedDesigns how a company's product fits a customer's or partner's systems, then works with engineers to build and launch it in production.NewSince Jul 20266
Data Platform ArchitectUnverifiedPlans a client's data platform: weighs the options, sets the target design and roadmap, and adds data governance, quality checks and AI.NewSince Jul 20263
GTM Finance AnalystUnverifiedThe finance partner to sales, marketing and customer success: budgets, headcount plans, spend analysis and the data pipelines behind them.NewSince Jul 20261
Deployment ManagerUnverifiedRuns a deployment after the contract is signed, from bringing up compute clusters to rolling out software, until the customer is live.NewSince Jul 20261
Chief AI OfficerThe executive who owns AI strategy across a company; common since 2024.NewSince Jul 20260
AI ML ArchitectUnverifiedA title found on company job boards in July 2026; no open role uses it right now.NewSince Jul 20260
Customer Reliability EngineerUnverifiedA customer reliability engineer works with external clients to maintain system availability and performance.NewSince Jun 20267
Data Center ManagerUnverifiedThe on-site leader of a data center: runs the technicians who install and repair hardware and keeps power, cooling and compute up.NewSince Jun 20265
AI Enablement EngineerUnverifiedBuilds AI agents, retrieval pipelines and automations for an internal team's work, such as HR or IT, and writes the guides to use them.NewSince Jun 20263
AI Solutions SpecialistUnverifiedA sales specialist for a platform's AI and machine learning products, working with the wider sales team to get customers using them.NewSince Jun 20261
AI TrainerUnverifiedTeaches an AI system by example: labels data such as photos of vehicle damage, or tunes a support agent's prompts, tone and guardrails.NewSince May 20264
AI Systems EngineerUnverifiedBuilds and runs the systems around AI models, from the harnesses that make coding agents dependable to a company's own AI tools, access and spend.NewSince May 20261
Growth EngineerA software engineer focused on building tools, experiments, and features to drive user acquisition and retention.NewSince Apr 20269
AI Deployment ManagerUnverifiedOwns a set of customers after the sale and drives their rollout and adoption of an AI product, measured on retention and usage.NewSince Mar 202612
Agent StrategistUnverifiedDesigns what a customer-facing AI agent should do and how it should sound, then measures it.NewSince Mar 20268
DevSecOps EngineerUnverifiedA DevSecOps engineer integrates automated security practices into software deployment pipelines.NewSince Jan 202611
Controls EngineerAn engineer who designs and manages control systems to automate mechanical and physical operations.NewSince Dec 202572
Autonomy EngineerUnverifiedBuilds the computer vision and other algorithms that let a drone or vehicle understand the world around it and move on its own.NewSince Dec 202529
Evals EngineerMeasures model and agent quality: builds eval suites, graders and the dashboards teams ship against.NewSince Dec 202514
GTM Enablement Program ManagerUnverifiedRuns the programs and content that keep a sales team current on the product and how to sell it, more and more built as AI tools.NewSince Dec 20251
Member of Technical StaffA deliberately flat title from Bell Labs, revived by AI labs for engineers and researchers alike.+177%Since Aug 2015206
Research EngineerWrites the code that makes research run: training runs, experiments, infrastructure.+105%Before 2011161
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.+82%Since Dec 2009437
Security EngineerFinds and fixes weaknesses in systems, code and cloud accounts.+69%Since Jun 2011402
Robotics EngineerBuilds the perception, planning and control software that lets robots and autonomous vehicles sense the world and act in it.Up from 0Since Oct 202515
Product Operations ManagerA professional who optimizes processes, data access, and alignment across product and operational teams.Up from 0Since Oct 202522
Technical Support EngineerResolves complex customer technical issues and assists users with software platform troubleshooting.Up from 0Since Apr 202559
Robotics Software EngineerWrites the software that runs a robot or autonomous vehicle, such as control loops, path planning and robot skills, tested on the hardware.Up from 0Since Mar 202533
AI ScientistUnverifiedBuilds and trains new AI models for one field, such as biology or enterprise data, from research methods to the models a product relies on.Up from 0Since Feb 20253
Automation EngineerAn engineer who designs and implements automated systems and workflows to optimize technical processes.Up from 0Since Feb 202342
Cloud EngineerAn engineer responsible for designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure and services.Up from 0Since Jun 202217
AI TutorUnverifiedWrites and grades data that teaches a model a language or a subject; a model-training role, not teaching people.Up from 0Since Jul 202010
Deployment StrategistThe non-engineering half of a forward deployed team: scopes the customer problem and runs the deployment.Up from 0Since Dec 201266
AI Deployment EngineerDeploys and tunes an AI product or agent inside a customer's stack; a close cousin of the forward deployed engineer.+97%Since Jun 201335
Agent EngineerBuilds LLM agents that plan and call tools, and the harnesses that keep them reliable.+8%Since Sep 2016109
AI EngineerA software engineer who builds products on top of models rather than training them.+40% rolesSince Jun 2011244
Applied AI EngineerTurns frontier models into working products for specific customers or use cases.+26% rolesSince Sep 201778
Legal EngineerUnverifiedA lawyer who builds: turns legal workflows into prompts, evals and product for legal AI tools.+60% rolesSince Nov 201748
Technical ArchitectUnverifiedA technical architect defines high-level architecture and technical standards for enterprise software applications.EmergingSince Oct 202519
AI Engagement ManagerUnverifiedThe client-facing lead for a company's AI work with key customers: owns the relationship and guides them through deployment, adoption and results.EmergingSince Aug 20254
Infrastructure Software EngineerUnverifiedAn infrastructure software engineer builds and maintains the core software systems that support application development and operations.EmergingSince Aug 202511
AI Infrastructure Systems EngineerUnverifiedBuilds software that provisions, monitors and repairs large GPU fleets for model training and inference, and finds the hardware faults behind failures.EmergingSince Apr 20253
Forward Deployed StrategistUnverifiedThe business half of a forward deployed pod: owns the executive relationship and turns the most valuable use cases into projects engineers build.+100% rolesSince Mar 20254
Firmware EngineerAn engineer who develops low-level software that directly controls hardware components and embedded systems.+22% rolesSince Mar 202545
GTM EngineerBuilds sales and marketing systems with data enrichment, automation and language models instead of adding headcount.EmergingSince Jul 202123
Data ArchitectUnverifiedDesigns how an organization's data is stored, modelled and governed, from lakehouse layers and pipelines to the standards that feed analytics and AI.EmergingSince Feb 20256
Applied AI ArchitectUnverifiedDesigns how a customer's systems should use a model provider's models, from prototype to production.+18% rolesSince Dec 202465
AI StrategistUnverifiedSits with customers in one industry, such as finance, law or healthcare, maps how their work runs and redesigns it around an AI platform.+13% rolesSince Dec 20249
AI Strategy ConsultantUnverifiedA title found on company job boards in September 2024; no open role uses it right now.EmergingSince Sep 20240
LLMOps EngineerRuns language models in production: serving, prompt and model versions, evals in CI, cost and latency.EmergingSince Jul 20241
Machine Learning ScientistDesigns and trains machine learning models for a product problem, such as growth experiments, cancer diagnostics or search, and ships them.+25% rolesSince May 202415
AI Safety ResearcherStudies how to make models behave as intended: alignment, interpretability, red teaming.EmergingSince Mar 20242
AI ArchitectDesigns how AI fits into a company's or a customer's systems: the architecture, the guardrails and the path from prototype to production.+80% rolesSince Mar 20249
Flight Software EngineerUnverifiedA flight software engineer designs and tests onboard software systems for airborne and space vehicles.EmergingSince Dec 202324
Embedded Software EngineerUnverifiedAn embedded software engineer develops low-level software running directly on hardware devices and microcontrollers.EmergingSince Nov 202333
Test EngineerAn engineer who builds and executes testing routines to verify software functionality and performance.EmergingSince Jun 2023231
Developer Success EngineerAn engineer who assists external developers in integrating and building effectively on top of a software platform.+11% rolesSince Apr 202310
LLM EngineerAn engineer focused on building with, fine-tuning or serving large language models.+40% rolesSince Mar 20237
AI Solutions ArchitectDesigns how a customer should use AI models and services, from architecture review to a working proof of concept.+27% rolesSince May 202233
Design Verification EngineerUnverifiedA design verification engineer creates test environments to validate integrated circuit and hardware designs.EmergingSince Jun 202119
Technical Program ManagerCoordinates complex cross-functional technical initiatives and drives engineering delivery across teams.EmergingSince May 2021307
Head of AILeads the AI or ML group below the C-suite: VP, director or head.+92% rolesSince Jul 201723
AI Product ManagerA product manager for model-powered products, fluent in evals and model behaviour.EmergingSince May 201763
Systems EngineerUnverifiedA systems engineer designs and manages complex software and hardware systems across their lifecycle.EmergingSince Dec 2016342

Newest first, then fastest rising: 25 first seen in the last 12 months (17 in the last 6), 44 more rising. 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
Fading-2%Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.3.7% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 512 open ยท $262k median ยท since Nov 2011Fading+68%Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.2.2% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 245 open ยท $226k median ยท since May 2011Fading-24%Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.2.9% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 157 open ยท $213k median ยท since Apr 2011Fading-4%Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.3.1% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 151 open ยท $182k median ยท since Apr 2011Fading-6%DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.2.1% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 63 open ยท $167k median ยท since Apr 2011Fading-Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.0.55% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 83 open ยท $150k median ยท since Apr 2011Fading-Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.0.22% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 2 open ยท $203k median ยท since Apr 2015Fading-Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.0.36% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 61 open ยท $188k median ยท since Oct 2011Fading-Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.0.30% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 11 open ยท $211k median ยท since Jun 2012Fading-Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.0% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท since Dec 2011Fading-Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.0.04% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 1 open ยท $250k median ยท since Apr 2016Fading-Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.0.17% of HN posts, 12 mo ยท 18 open ยท $236k median ยท since Nov 2011
Title6 mo
Engineering ManagerManages a team of engineers: hiring, delivery and careers.Fading ยท3.7% of posts ยท 512 open ยท since Nov 2011-2%
Data ScientistUses statistics and models to answer questions with data; the "sexiest job" of 2012.Fading ยท2.2% of posts ยท 245 open ยท since May 2011+68%
Site Reliability EngineerKeeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.Fading ยท2.9% of posts ยท 157 open ยท since Apr 2011-24%
Data EngineerBuilds the pipelines, warehouses and platforms that move and store data.Fading ยท3.1% of posts ยท 151 open ยท since Apr 2011-4%
DevOps EngineerAutomates builds, deploys and infrastructure; the title that took over from sysadmin.Fading ยท2.1% of posts ยท 63 open ยท since Apr 2011-6%
Data AnalystAnswers business questions with SQL, dashboards and spreadsheets.Fading ยท0.55% of posts ยท 83 open ยท since Apr 2011-
Blockchain EngineerWrites smart contracts and protocol code; peaked with the 2018 and 2021 crypto cycles.Fading ยท0.22% of posts ยท 2 open ยท since Apr 2015-
Analytics EngineerModels raw data into clean, tested tables (usually with dbt) for analysts and dashboards; named by dbt Labs around 2019.Fading ยท0.36% of posts ยท 61 open ยท since Oct 2011-
Computer Vision EngineerBuilds models and systems that read images and video, from robots to retail.Fading ยท0.30% of posts ยท 11 open ยท since Jun 2012-
Big Data EngineerThe Hadoop-era title of the early 2010s, before Spark and cloud warehouses folded it into data engineering.Fading ยท0% of posts ยท since Dec 2011-
Deep Learning EngineerTrains neural networks; the 2016 to 2019 name for what became ML engineering.Fading ยท0.04% of posts ยท 1 open ยท since Apr 2016-
Data Product ManagerTreats data sets and data platforms as products with users and roadmaps.Fading ยท0.17% of posts ยท 18 open ยท since Nov 2011-
The emerging radar
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  1. 1Evals EngineerNov 2026
  2. 2Context EngineerNov 2026
  3. 3Model Behavior DesignerNov 2026
  4. 4Data Center ManagerSep 2026
  5. 5AI Operations EngineerAug 2026
  6. 6Data Center EngineerAug 2026
  7. 7GTM Enablement ManagerAug 2026
  8. 8GTM Strategy & Operations AnalystAug 2026
  9. 9Forward Deployed ArchitectJul 2026
  10. 10Data Platform ArchitectJul 2026
  11. 11GTM Finance AnalystJul 2026
  12. 12Deployment ManagerJul 2026
  13. 13AI ML ArchitectJul 2026
  14. 14Chief AI OfficerJul 2026
  15. 15Legal EngineerJun 2026
  16. 16Customer Reliability EngineerJun 2026
  17. 17AI Enablement EngineerJun 2026
  18. 18AI Solutions SpecialistJun 2026
  19. 19AI TrainerMay 2026
  20. 20AI Systems EngineerMay 2026
  21. 21Growth EngineerApr 2026
  22. 22AI Deployment ManagerMar 2026
  23. 23Agent StrategistMar 2026
  24. 24AI ArchitectFeb 2026
  25. 25AI Deployment EngineerJan 2026
  26. 26DevSecOps EngineerJan 2026
  27. 27AI StrategistJan 2026
  28. 28Data ArchitectJan 2026
  29. 29Controls EngineerDec 2025
  30. 30Autonomy EngineerDec 2025
  31. 31GTM Enablement Program ManagerDec 2025
  32. 32Forward Deployed EngineerNov 2025
  33. 33Product Operations ManagerOct 2025
  34. 34Technical ArchitectOct 2025
  35. 35Robotics EngineerOct 2025
  36. 36AI TutorOct 2025
  37. 37Infrastructure Software EngineerAug 2025
  38. 38AI Engagement ManagerAug 2025
  39. 39Agent EngineerJul 2025
  40. 40AI Product ManagerMay 2025
  41. 41GTM EngineerMay 2025
  42. 42Member of Technical StaffApr 2025
  43. 43Applied AI EngineerApr 2025
  44. 44Technical Support EngineerApr 2025
  45. 45AI Infrastructure Systems EngineerApr 2025
  46. 46Firmware EngineerMar 2025
  47. 47Robotics Software EngineerMar 2025
  48. 48Forward Deployed StrategistMar 2025
  49. 49AI ScientistFeb 2025
  50. 50Applied AI ArchitectDec 2024
  51. 51AI Strategy ConsultantSep 2024
  52. 52LLMOps EngineerJul 2024
  53. 53AI EngineerMay 2024
  54. 54Machine Learning ScientistMay 2024
  55. 55AI Safety ResearcherMar 2024
  56. 56Flight Software EngineerDec 2023
  57. 57Embedded Software EngineerNov 2023
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