When titles appeared

customer-facing like a solutions engineer, but ships code in the customer's environment · source

builds on models from labs rather than training them · source

prompt work became one skill of the AI engineer · source

an AI engineer specialised in agents · from how the titles are used

proposed as the better name for the same skill · source

evaluation split out of AI engineering · source

ML engineering focused on large language models · from how the titles are used

MLOps for language models · source

DevOps practice applied to models · source

the adversarial-testing part of safety work · source

security red teaming applied to models · source

behavior design grew out of alignment fine-tuning · source

research focused on safety and alignment · from how the titles are used

AI split from the data executive's remit · from how the titles are used

the AI lead moved into the C-suite · from how the titles are used

technical work moved from sales support into revenue operations · from how the titles are used

analysts who took on modelling · source

the modelling layer moved out of data engineering · source

operations done with software engineering · from how the titles are used

DevOps work turned into an internal product · source

full-stack plus product ownership · from how the titles are used

model building for production split out of data science · source