Guides · Updated October 19, 2026

What new jobs is AI creating?

We track 47 of them, from people who train AI agents to people who keep robots running. 28 are hiring now. Each one lists the jobs whose skills already fit.

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Lead people and AI agents

  • AI enablement and adoption lead

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months

    You help teams learn AI tools and use them in their daily work. You run trainings, collect wins, and track how adoption is going.

    Fits people from: Marketing coordinator, Internal communications manager, Account manager, Customer success manager

  • Agent workforce manager

    Starting to appear · ready in about 1 to 2 years, usually through an enablement or workflow role first

    You run a set of deployed AI agents the way a manager runs a team. You set goals and key measures (KPIs), review their work, write escalation rules, and decide which human approves what.

    Fits people from: Sales manager, Contact center manager, Bank branch manager, Claims manager

  • Fractional AI consultant for small businesses

    Starting to appear · ready in about 3 to 6 months to a first paid client

    You work a few hours a week with each of several small businesses to find where AI saves them time. You map their tasks, set up simple tools, and train the owner and staff.

    Fits people from: PR specialist, Account executive, Real estate agent, Staff accountant

  • Developer AI enablement lead

    Hiring now · ready in about 6 to 12 months from a first-line engineering manager or senior engineer seat

    You help engineering teams get value from coding agents. You set the rules for what agents may change, measure whether speed and quality improve, and coach teams through the switch.

    Fits people from: DevOps engineer, Senior software engineer, Engineering manager, Director of engineering

Shape how AI talks and thinks

Build with AI

  • AI product manager

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months

    You own an AI feature or a small set of agents. You turn how customers work into what the agent should do, then set the measures and tests that show it works.

    Fits people from: Market research analyst, Technical writer, Product and UX designer, Design and UX manager

  • AI product owner

    Hiring now · ready in about 6 to 12 months

    You own the backlog for an AI product. You write and order the stories, accept the work, and make sure each release improves how the AI behaves for users.

    Fits people from: Scrum master, Product owner, Product manager, Business analyst

  • AI workflow builder

    Hiring now · ready in about 2 to 4 months

    You find the repetitive work in a team and rebuild it with agents and no-code tools like Zapier, Power Automate or Copilot Studio. You keep a library of prompts and how-to guides and track the time each change saves.

    Fits people from: Marketing coordinator, Graphic designer, Marketing manager, Sales development representative

  • AI-native solo founder

    Starting to appear · ready in about 6 to 18 months to first steady revenue

    You run a small product or service on your own. Agents help with support, content, code and operations while you look after customers and make the calls.

    Fits people from: Industrial design student

  • GTM engineer (AI sales systems)

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months for someone who already runs a sales team or its CRM, longer if SQL is new

    You build the data and AI workflows that find buyers, research them and reach them. You wire together enrichment tools that fill in company and contact data, research agents, email sequencers and the CRM, set the rules for what an agent may send, and measure whether the pipeline it makes is real.

    Fits people from: Sales manager

Bring AI into a business

  • AI deployment strategist

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months

    You run a customer's AI rollout from first discovery call to launch. You map their workflows to agents, build the return-on-investment (ROI) case, prototype, train users and bring field feedback back to product.

    Fits people from: Sales development representative, Account manager, Customer success manager, Account executive

  • Legal AI implementation specialist

    Hiring now · ready in about 2 to 4 months

    You help legal teams start using AI tools for contract and review work. You build and test prompts for their workflows and train the people who use them.

    Fits people from: Paralegal, Contract administrator, Title examiner

  • Legal operations analyst

    Hiring now · ready in about 6 to 12 months

    You run the legal team's contract system and AI tools. You keep templates and clause libraries current, run pilots, build dashboards and train the team.

    Fits people from: Paralegal, Contract administrator

  • Insurance agency AI service lead

    Starting to appear · ready in about 3 to 6 months alongside your sales and service work

    You run the AI tools that answer an insurance agency's phones, texts and service requests. You write what the assistant may and may not say, set the moments it hands off to a licensed agent, test it against made-up calls, and track service time, handoffs and retention.

    Fits people from: Insurance agent

  • Legal engineer at a legal AI company

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months of focused work once you have 3 years of practice

    You are a lawyer who helps law firms and legal teams put an AI platform to work. You run pilots and demos, build workflows on real matters, train lawyers, and bring what you learn back to the product team.

  • Real estate team AI and lead-systems lead

    Starting to appear · ready in about 3 to 6 months alongside your sales work

    You run the systems behind a real estate team or brokerage office. You set up the AI assistant that answers new inquiries, write what it may and may not say, decide when it hands off to a licensed agent, and track response times and appointments set.

    Fits people from: Real estate agent

  • Supply chain AI planning lead

    Starting to appear · ready in about 6 to 12 months for a supply chain or procurement manager who runs one measured pilot

    You bring AI forecasting, planning agents and automated exception handling into a supply chain or procurement team. You decide what an agent may do on its own, test it against known answers, set the thresholds where a planner steps in, and show whether service and inventory got better.

    Fits people from: Supply chain manager, Procurement manager

Run AI projects

  • AI delivery lead

    Hiring now · ready in about 6 to 12 months

    You run the delivery of AI projects and AI tool rollouts. You keep dates, dependencies and risks on track and make sure each launch is tested and ready.

    Fits people from: Project coordinator, IT project manager, Technical program manager, Implementation specialist

  • AI/ML technical program manager

    Hiring now · ready in about 6 to 12 months

    You scope and run AI projects that span several AI teams. You track model versions, experiments and evaluation gates, the tests a release must pass, so releases ship on time and safely.

    Fits people from: Director of engineering, IT project manager

  • AI incident and safety lead

    Starting to appear · ready in about 6 to 12 months

    You run on-call and escalation when an AI system misbehaves or is misused. You keep runbooks, the step-by-step response guides, bring legal, policy and comms together, and track incident trends.

    Fits people from: Security analyst, IT manager

  • Agent reliability and quality engineer

    Hiring now · ready in about 6 to 12 months for a senior engineer who ships one agent feature with evals and an SLO at work or in public

    You make AI agents and the systems around them dependable enough to sit in the critical path. You set reliability targets, build the evaluation and monitoring that catch regressions, design human approval points, and lead the response when an agent breaks something in production.

    Fits people from: SDET, DevOps engineer, Senior software engineer

Test and check AI

  • AI evaluation specialist

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months for someone with 2 to 4 years in product, QA or analysis who publishes 2 or 3 eval write-ups

    You write test cases and grading rubrics that show whether an AI system is ready to launch. You run the tests, flag what got worse, and turn expert judgment into scoring others can repeat.

    Fits people from: Market research analyst, Technical writer, Graphic designer, Product and UX designer

  • E-discovery analyst for AI review

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months if you already use Relativity

    You load data into RelativityOne, the legal review platform, run searches and prepare productions for a legal team. You set up aiR, Relativity's AI reviewer, for review, privilege and summaries, then pull quality-check (QC) samples to check the AI's calls.

  • Expert AI trainer (contract)

    Hiring now · ready in you can start within days to a few weeks

    You write hard questions from your own field and grade AI answers against a rubric for AI labs. You correct weak answers and explain what a good one needs, on projects that last weeks.

    Fits people from: Content writer, Translator or interpreter, Real estate agent, Insurance agent

  • Domain AI red teamer

    Starting to appear · ready in about 1 to 3 months for contract work, and 12 months or more for full-time roles that need scripting

    You try to get an AI system to give harmful, biased or rule-breaking answers in your own field. You write up each finding so someone else can reproduce it.

    Fits people from: QA engineer, Security analyst, Primary care physician, Cybersecurity student

  • Agent simulation scenario designer

    A few years out · ready in about 3 to 6 months alongside your current job

    You write made-up customer personas, missions and edge cases for an AI support agent. You rerun them after every change as regression tests, which catch new mistakes, and score where the agent fails.

    Fits people from: Personal banker, QA engineer, SDET, Patient access coordinator

  • Language AI quality specialist

    Starting to appear · ready in about 2 to 3 months of short sessions to a portfolio you can show

    You judge whether AI translation and AI interpreting are good enough to use, in the languages you know. You build test sets, grade output against a rubric, sort errors by type and tell the team which content is safe to send without a human pass.

    Fits people from: Translator or interpreter

  • LLM evaluation data scientist

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 6 months for a data scientist with 2 to 4 years who publishes one eval write-up with a judge-agreement number and a caught regression

    You measure whether an AI feature is good enough to ship and whether a change made it better or worse. You build test sets that look like real traffic, define quality metrics, check that an AI grader agrees with people, and run the experiments that decide releases.

    Fits people from: Data analyst, Data engineer, Data scientist, Data and analytics manager

Keep AI safe, fair and lawful

  • AI governance analyst

    Hiring now · ready in about 4 to 8 months, including the AIGP

    You keep the list of every AI tool your company uses and how risky each one is. You review new AI vendors, match controls to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF) and new laws, and gather proof for audits and customer questions.

    Fits people from: Credit analyst, Claims adjuster, Finance manager or controller, Accounting manager

  • Responsible AI program manager

    Hiring now · ready in about 9 to 18 months

    You run the program that decides how a company reviews and approves its AI. You set up the review board, risk tiers and policies, and work with legal and model teams to get audits done.

    Fits people from: Compliance and risk manager, Program manager or PMO lead

  • AI policy analyst

    Starting to appear · ready in about 9 to 18 months, or sooner through a fellowship

    You read and sum up new AI bills and help write rules for how an agency uses AI. You brief officials in plain words and review the risks of AI tools the agency wants to use.

    Fits people from: Public health student, CS and AI PhD student, PhD student in life sciences, Physical sciences PhD student

  • AI auditor

    A few years out · ready in about 12 to 24 months, usually through an IT audit role first

    You test AI systems and the processes around them against standards such as ISO/IEC 42001 and audit rules. You gather evidence, check it, and write the report that says whether the system meets the bar.

    Fits people from: Staff accountant, Finance manager or controller, Accounting manager, Systems administrator

  • Content provenance specialist

    A few years out · ready in about 6 to 12 months, mostly by growing into it from a trust and safety role

    You make sure AI-made images, video and audio carry content credentials such as C2PA, a standard label that records where a file came from. You check whether a piece of content is authentic and help settle disputes about where it came from.

    Fits people from: PR specialist, Social media manager, Graphic designer, Personal banker

  • Finance AI controls lead

    Starting to appear · ready in about 6 to 12 months for a controller who runs one governed agent pilot with results

    You decide how AI agents are allowed to work inside a company's close and accounting. You set what an agent may post on its own, test it against known answers, write the controls auditors will rely on, and own the evidence when they ask.

    Fits people from: Finance manager or controller, Accounting manager

Run the business of AI

Keep AI and robots running in the real world

  • Autonomous truck operations specialist

    Starting to appear · ready in ready to apply once you have about 3 years of clean Class A miles. The training below takes about 6 to 9 weeks of short sessions

    You keep driverless trucks moving at the terminal and on the road. You inspect and release trucks, help them through tight yards from a remote station, meet them at fuel stops and breakdowns, and write up what went wrong so engineers can fix it.

    Fits people from: Truck driver

  • Data center critical power technician

    Hiring now · ready in a licensed journeyman with gear experience can apply now. The training below takes about 6 to 9 weeks of short sessions

    You keep the power on in the buildings that run AI. You maintain and test switchgear, UPS (backup battery) systems, batteries and generators, follow written procedures during maintenance, answer alarms, and oversee the contractors who work on the gear.

    Fits people from: Electrician, Mechanical engineering student, ECE student, Master's student in engineering

  • Robot fleet field associate

    Hiring now · ready in for associate roles, you can apply after the training below, which takes about 6 to 9 weeks of short sessions. Technician roles need 1 to 3 years in the field first

    You keep robots working in public places: delivery robots on sidewalks, humanoid robots at a customer site, service robots in hospitals and stores. You prepare and inspect them, step in when one gets stuck, explain them to the people around them, and write up what went wrong so engineers can fix it.

    Fits people from: Retail store manager, Retail sales associate, Warehouse associate

  • Warehouse robotics and maintenance technician

    Hiring now · ready in about 3 to 9 months to apply for an operator or apprentice seat from the floor; the apprenticeship itself takes longer before the technician title

    You keep the robots, conveyors and sorters in a warehouse running. You do preventive maintenance, clear faults, replace sensors and motors, and work with engineers when a robot cell keeps failing.

    Fits people from: Supply chain coordinator, Warehouse associate, Electrician, Mechanical engineering student

Bring AI into care and teaching

  • AI tutoring and learning designer

    Starting to appear · ready in about 6 to 12 months

    You make sure an AI tutor teaches the way a good teacher does. You write the lessons and prompts it uses, test it against made-up students, and fix where it gives answers away or explains badly.

    Fits people from: Internal communications manager, Learning and development specialist, Instructional designer, K-12 teacher

  • Clinic AI agent specialist

    Starting to appear · ready in three to six months for superuser work at your clinic, and one to three years to a vendor or system role

    You make the AI agents that answer clinic phones and messages safe and useful. You decide which calls and refill requests are routine, write the red-flag rules that send a patient to a person, read call transcripts for mistakes, and train staff on the handoffs.

    Fits people from: Administrative assistant, Medical biller, Patient access coordinator, Pharmacy technician

  • Clinical AI and nursing informatics specialist

    Hiring now · ready in one to three years from a med-surg seat, with superuser work along the way

    You are the nurse who decides whether a clinical AI tool is safe and useful on the floor. You test ambient charting and alert tools against real nursing work, write the checks nurses use, train staff, and bring problems back to the vendor or the informatics team.

    Fits people from: Registered nurse, Nursing student

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