AI Career Observatory

Emerging AI Roles

Roles in our taxonomy flagged as emerging or growing, with live evidence from the tracked dataset (3,302 active postings, data since Sep 29, 2026). We only claim growth where the data shows multiple employers hiring the same new role pattern.

Ships AI products directly with customers, working on-site or embedded to deploy real systems fast.

271 active jobs 11 distinct employers 15 remote

Designs and demos AI solutions for customers; pairs deep technical skill with client work.

224 active jobs 7 distinct employers 37 remote

Positions and sells AI products: product marketing, sales engineering and market strategy for AI.

68 active jobs 10 distinct employers 11 remote

Applies AI research and models to concrete product and customer problems.

34 active jobs 3 distinct employers 0 remote

Builds AI systems that use tools, reason across tasks and operate inside structured workflows.

23 active jobs 5 distinct employers 2 remote

Owns AI product strategy, from model capabilities and data to user-facing tradeoffs.

13 active jobs 6 distinct employers 0 remote

Helps developers build with AI platforms through docs, samples, talks and community.

8 active jobs 2 distinct employers 0 remote

Builds systems that generate text, images, audio or video with generative models.

7 active jobs 2 distinct employers 0 remote
AI Consultant growing

Advises organizations on AI strategy, adoption and implementation.

6 active jobs 2 distinct employers 6 remote
AI Operations emerging

Runs the operational backbone of AI teams: data ops, labeling ops and model ops coordination.

5 active jobs 3 distinct employers 0 remote

Designs interfaces and interactions for AI-powered products, from chat to agents.

4 active jobs 3 distinct employers 1 remote

Engineers technical safeguards, evaluations and mitigations for AI system risks.

3 active jobs 2 distinct employers 1 remote

Builds the policies, reviews and controls that keep AI use compliant and responsible.

1 active jobs 1 distinct employers 0 remote

How the radar works

New job titles are clustered against the role taxonomy on every sync. Titles that appear across multiple employers with consistent skill patterns become candidates; a human review decides whether they become a canonical role, an alias, or are merged into an existing role. We don't publish candidate roles automatically — that's how we avoid taxonomy pollution.

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