AI Builders. Horizontal across every function.
Engineering builds AI systems. Marketing builds AI campaigns. HR builds AI talent agents. Legal builds AI contract reviewers. Every function now has its AI Builder, and most don't have a name for the role yet. Here's the map.
44 buckets · 264,613 real job postings · see the naming-gap analysis →
Function-native AI Builders
Every business function is hiring an AI Builder of its own, Marketing, Finance, HR, Legal, Sales, Operations, Customer Experience. The role is being invented in real time. The market has 228 distinct titles for this layer and zero canonical names.
Marketing AI Builder
77 postingsBuilds agents and AI-powered workflows inside marketing, campaign generation, segmentation, content ops, ad creative.
Finance AI Builder
48 postingsBuilds AI inside FP&A, accounting, audit, treasury.
HR AI Builder
24 postingsBuilds AI for talent acquisition, learning, performance, internal mobility.
Legal AI Builder
38 postingsBuilds AI workflows for contract review, compliance monitoring, regulatory writing.
Sales AI Builder
110 postingsBuilds AI for pipeline scoring, outreach personalization, deal acceleration.
Operations AI Builder
93 postingsBuilds AI inside operations, supply chain, logistics, procurement, fulfillment.
Customer Experience AI Builder
17 postingsBuilds AI inside customer service, success, and support.
AI Business Analyst
7 postingsThe business analyst for the agentic era.
AI Experience Designer
13 postingsDesigns how people work with AI: agent interfaces, conversation flows, the human-in-the-loop moments.
AI Success Manager
11 postingsThe customer-success motion rebuilt for AI deployments.
AI Content Specialist
6 postingsThe function-native content role rebuilt around AI: produces, edits, and governs AI-generated content.
Engineering AI Builders
The loud layer. The market has already named these roles, ML Engineer, AI Engineer, Applied AI, Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Developer, Prompt Engineer, plus the newest pair: AI Accelerator (internal FDE) and AI Solution Architect. These are the platform team that the function-native AI Builders lean on.
AI Engineer
564 postingsThe most-hired AI Builder role in the market today.
Applied AI Architect / Engineer
164 postingsBridges model labs and customers.
Forward Deployed Engineer
641 postingsSits inside the customer's workflow.
AI Accelerator (Internal FDE)
6 postingsFDE pointed inward. Embeds inside a business function (Stripe: 20-marketer pods; Box: cross-functional) and builds the agents the function uses daily. Hands-on: deliverable isn't an integration, it's
Agentic Developer
330 postingsBuilds multi-step agent workflows.
AI Agent Engineer
27 postingsBuilds and operates the agent itself: tool-use, memory, planning, and execution of a single production agent as a shippable unit.
Prompt Engineer
13 postingsDesigns, tests, and maintains prompt suites and evals.
Loop / Harness Engineer
4 postingsThe 2026 successor to the Prompt Engineer.
ML Engineer
881 postingsThe pre-agentic AI Builder.
LLM Engineer / LLMOps
63 postingsThe LLM-native engineer.
AI Solution Architect
132 postingsDesigns the AI system around the model, orchestration, retrieval, evals, guardrails, security boundary, observability.
AI Research Scientist
189 postingsPushes the model frontier: novel architectures, evals, fine-tuning research.
AI Data Engineer
64 postingsBuilds the data layer AI runs on: ingestion, feature stores, embeddings, retrieval.
AI Deployment Engineer
70 postingsGets AI from proof of concept into production at the customer.
AI Platform Engineer
67 postingsBuilds the shared platform every other AI builder builds on: model serving, orchestration infrastructure, evals, guardrails as a service.
AI Security Engineer
33 postingsSecures the AI layer: prompt injection, model supply chain, agent permissions and data boundaries.
MLOps Lead
48 postingsRuns models in production: pipelines, monitoring, retraining, rollback.
AI Solutions Engineer
17 postingsThe pre-sales and post-sales engineer for AI products: runs the demo, builds the pilot on the customer's data, and carries the integration through onboarding.
Cross-functional & Leadership
Roles that sit above or across function lines. Executives steering AI (CAIO, Head of AI, VP AI, Director AI). Governance owning its impact on people and society (Responsible AI Officer). Ambassadors translating capability to audiences (AI Evangelist). Non-engineer builders shipping software via AI (Vibecoder).
Chief AI Officer
1 postingBrand-new role. CAIO emerged as a corporate title in 2023-2024 and is being appointed at most Fortune 500s now, the named workforce underneath is what Nuvepro builds.
Head of AI
18 postingsFunction-level AI leader (Head of AI for Marketing, Head of AI Enablement, Head of International Applied AI).
VP AI
49 postingsEnterprise AI leadership at the VP/SVP level, typically running the AI platform, AI product, or AI-X function (AI Security, AI Strategy, AI Innovation).
Director AI
48 postingsOperational AI ownership, often the role accountable for shipping AI features and AI-touching products in a specific business unit.
Responsible AI Officer
58 postingsThe HR-equivalent for AI.
AI Evangelist
8 postingsCross-functional AI ambassador.
Vibecoder
EmergingNon-engineer who ships software via AI.
AI Orchestrator Lead
17 postingsOwns the layer between agents and people.
AI Validator
17 postingsThe assurance layer for AI work.
AI Product Manager
149 postingsOwns the AI product. Decides what the model or agent should do, scopes the human-in-the-loop, and ships AI features. The market has named this one; it sits between the AI Builders and the business.
AI Strategist
37 postingsSets the AI agenda for a function or the enterprise: where to deploy agents first, what to buy versus build, how the operating model changes.
AI Program Manager
30 postingsRuns AI initiatives to delivery: coordinates the build, the change, the rollout, and the measurement across teams.
AI Consultant
17 postingsThe advisory AI expert brought in to scope, design, and de-risk AI adoption.
AI Adoption Lead
18 postingsOwns getting AI actually used, not just deployed.
AI Agent Operator
EmergingRuns the agents once they are deployed: watches queues, quality, and escalations day to day.
The AI trainer gig layer
Beneath every named AI role sits a contingent-labor layer: domain experts hired per-task to train, evaluate, and red-team models. Not employees, not headcount, a labor market parallel to the org chart. Mercor reports ~30,000 contractors at an average billed rate near $95/hr; Scale AI's Outlier runs a similar platform. Where the judgment, taste, and domain expertise that tunes today's models actually comes from.
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