Artificially generated100 new AI jobs.
Everyone talks about AI. Almost nobody counts the new jobs. 30 names are up. The challenge is at least 100.
100 new AI jobs: everyone talks about AI, and almost nobody lists the new jobs that come out of it. The jobs are hard to see. I see them. My challenge: I count at least 100 new kinds of jobs of the AI age. I do not have a hundred yet, but these are the ones I already have: 30 names, on October 7, 2026. Ontology Engineer is one of them. Further down sit 17 postings, from Samba TV to Booz Allen. That is the part a page already calls by that name. In fall 2026 a second layer sits over that: titles that labs and applied companies actually post. A third layer is just getting names on X.
The list that is already here
The names stay as they were said. One sentence beside each says what work the name means. The factor 1000 is part of the name, not a measured productivity.
No name matches these words.
| Ontologist | Writes the ontology. The same title also sits on postings further down. |
| Ontology OG | Sets the first objects, before a title sits on a page. |
| Prompt Reviewer | Checks prompt and answer against the ontology. Our name, already in this piece. |
| Promptlog Rocker | Plays the prompt log like a set: which line went in, which answer came out, which one stays. |
| Zivilisationsberater | Advice at the scale of a civilization, not a campaign. |
| Ontology Engineer | Builds the list that makes a company operable for software and agents. |
| Semantic Mining Operator | Pulls meaning out of raw text and lays it into the ontology. |
| 1000X Software Baumeister | Builds software with a machine that multiplies the work. |
| 1000X Scientist | The same multiplication, on the research side. |
| 1000X Engineer | The same multiplication, on the building side. |
| 1000X Politician | The same multiplication, on the political side. |
| 1000X General | The same multiplication, on the side of command in a conflict. |
| 1000X CEO | The same multiplication, on the side of the firm. |
| Ultrafounder who kills Corporations at ease | A founding that replaces a corporation outright, without building the apparatus along with it. |
| Vibe Game Reviewer | Plays and says what the game is worth. The opinion is the work. |
| Vibe Game Test Player | Plays it through so the break shows. The session is the work. |
| Vibe Game Builder | Builds the game in the same loop. |
| Game Master | Runs the game for the people in it. |
| Game Maker | Makes the game. |
| Consciousness Designer | Designs the consciousness of a system. In German: Bewusstseins-Designer. |
| Artificial Life Designer | Designs new lifeforms. |
| AI Engineer | The general name. Do not count it small. It splits into hundreds of specializations. |
| AI Consultant | Advises a company that actually puts the thing to work. |
| AI Transformation Teacher | Teaches how the changeover works. |
| Planetary Decoration Object | A funky sim that keeps the sim lively and joyful. |
| Optimist | That is a job now. Certified Optimal Optimist, by McGrinsey. |
| Mindshaper | Shapes a mind. |
| Artificial Personality Uploader | Uploads an artificial personality. |
| Semantic Miner | Pulls meaning out of the material. |
| Context Feeder | Feeds context into AI systems, like coal into a steam engine. |
Vibe Game Reviewer, Vibe Game Test Player, Vibe Game Builder, Game Master, Game Maker. These keep turning up as new jobs that did not exist in this form. Making money with them is hard. It was already hard. Now it gets harder. Otherwise, cooler games. We will see.
Consciousness Designer, Artificial Life Designer, AI Engineer, AI Consultant, AI Transformation Teacher, Planetary Decoration Object, Optimist. Do not count the AI Engineer small: the general name splits into hundreds of specializations. Planetary Decoration Object means being a funky sim that keeps the sim lively and joyful. Optimist is a job now. You can become a certified Optimal Optimist, certified by McGrinsey.
Mindshaper, Artificial Personality Uploader, Semantic Miner. Mindshaper shapes a mind. Artificial Personality Uploader uploads an artificial personality. Semantic Miner pulls meaning out of the material. Semantic Mining Operator is already higher on the list.
Context Feeder feeds context into AI systems, just like feeding coal into a steam engine back in the days.
Selling digital things, with nobody on the phone
The most successful models of this kind sell a digital unit, and the buyer speaks to nobody. A file, a seat, a call, attention. All of it digital. That is why they are open to attack: you are faster right now than any enterprise. New paradigm: execution is automated, and that leaves ideas as the thing that still counts.
| Model | Basket | Number |
|---|---|---|
| Digital goods on the App Store: game, subscription, file. The purchase runs with no conversation. | Fact | $149 billion in digital goods and services, 2025. |
| Ads inside the app, same study. The surface is digital. | Fact | $151 billion of in-app advertising, 2025. |
| Google advertising: Search, YouTube ads, Network. An account is enough to start. Large budgets often run with people. | Fact | $294.7 billion, year 2025. |
| File for a card: stock, template, font. Shutterstock content, Envato included. | Fact | $786.7 million of content, on $989.9 million of revenue, 2025. |
| Self-serve software: seat, subscription, card, no salesperson on the first buy. | Hypothesis | The same shape as the digital app: checkout instead of a call. |
| Metered API: a request or a token, billed with no intro call. | Hypothesis | The same shape. Execution sits in the request. |
| Async information product: course, newsletter, file. The reader arrives alone. | Hypothesis | The same shape. The file is the conversation. |
The same App Store study puts $1.14 trillion on food, travel, and stores. That number needs drivers, shops, people. It stays off this list. The layer you can attack is the digital one: $149 billion of goods, $151 billion of in-app ads, $294.7 billion of Google advertising, $786.7 million of file content.
What does an Ontology Engineer do?
He sets object types, fields, links, and actions so a workflow runs on Monday. At Samba TV that means RDF, OWL, SHACL, and a knowledge graph for viewer data, 150,000 to 180,000 dollars. At Booz Allen the same work is called Palantir Foundry: translate the assignment into an ontology, build the pipeline, connect AIP, sit with the customer. At AverIQ, for an oil customer in Houston, the person is the authority for object types, links, and actions, 150,000 to 175,000 dollars. In Cologne, Tenth Revolution is hiring two to three Ontology Developers, remote, for twelve months.
Ontology Designer is our name for the cut before that. Cucumber as object, mustard as field. The boundary is a decision. In the ads this work sits inside the Ontology Engineer and the Ontology Architect, at Carlyle and at Accenture as Senior Ontologist.
Prompt Reviewer is the second name from us. Someone checks the prompt and the answer against the ontology: the right object, an allowed action, approval when money moves. The Scientific Curator at FlyBase, Harvard, reads Drosophila literature, checks AI annotations, and sharpens the prompts that go into the pipeline. The check sits in that curation post. Prompt Reviewer is the name we put on it.
Which titles sat on a page?
Counted on October 1, 2026. A row is a title a page used, or a proposal marked as a proposal. Pay only where the ad states a range.
| Job | Basket | Kind | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ontology Engineer | Fact | Posting | Samba TV, knowledge graph. RDF, OWL, SHACL. 150,000 to 180,000 dollars |
| Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer | Fact | Posting | Booz Allen, Arlington. Ontology, workflow, AIP. |
| Senior Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer | Fact | Posting | AverIQ, Houston, oil and gas. 150,000 to 175,000 dollars |
| Ontology Developer | Fact | Posting | Tenth Revolution, Cologne, remote, twelve months. |
| Ontology Architect | Fact | Posting | Carlyle Group, New York or Washington. May 2026. |
| Senior Ontologist | Fact | Posting | Accenture, Seattle. OWL 2, RDFS, SKOS. September 30, 2026. |
| Knowledge Graph and Ontology Specialist | Fact | Posting | University of Sheffield. 38,784 to 47,389 pounds |
| Knowledge Graph & Ontology Engineer | Fact | Posting | Fluor, Vadodara. Plant engineering, RDF, SPARQL. |
| Ontology Expert & Knowledge Graph Engineer | Fact | Posting | Siemens, Bengaluru. |
| Knowledge Graph Engineer / Ontologist | Fact | Posting | The Hartford, June 2026. 156,000 to 234,000 dollars |
| Taxonomist / Ontologist | Fact | Posting | Gusto. Taxonomy for AI, prompt work as a capability. |
| Senior Knowledge Graph Engineer | Fact | Posting | EcoVadis. Ontology into a graph for agents. September 24, 2026. |
| Ontology Support Engineer | Fact | Posting | GSPANN. Objects, actions, write-back in operations. |
| Forward Deployed Software Engineer | Fact | Posting | Palantir. Many capabilities, one customer. Internal name Delta. |
| Forward Deployed AI Engineer | Fact | Posting | Palantir, on the careers page. |
| Deployment Strategist | Fact | Posting | Palantir, beside it. Closer to the deployment and the conversation. |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | Fact | Posting | Anthropic, Munich. 25 to 50 percent travel, Claude in the customer's system. |
| Knowledge Engineer | Fact | Older job | Sheffield is hiring the Specialist and names the Knowledge Engineer in the text. |
| Scientific Curator | Fact | Older job | Harvard, FlyBase. Checks AI annotations, sharpens prompts. |
| Ontology Designer | Hypothesis | Proposal | Our name for the boundary between object and field. |
| Prompt Reviewer | Hypothesis | Proposal | Our name for checking the prompt and the answer against the ontology. |
| Data Modeler | Hypothesis | Older job | The same boundary, earlier, in the ER diagram. |
| Process Analyst | Hypothesis | Older job | The first workflow, before it becomes an object. The FDE does that part in the room. |
| Enterprise Architect | Hypothesis | Older job | The overall model. The postings start at the single workflow. |
| Data Steward | Hypothesis | Older job | Holds the name when sales and assembly mean different things by "customer." |
| Information Architect | Hypothesis | Older job | The navigation of the terms. Gusto posts it as Taxonomist. |
| Solutions Architect | Hypothesis | Older job | Builds the branch into the system. Ontology Architect is the newer title at the same height. |
Seventeen titles, eight old names, two proposals.
The Forward Deployed Software Engineer is the row where Palantir named the craft. Product engineer: one capability, many customers. FDSE: many capabilities, one customer. The careers page keeps the title, plus Forward Deployed AI Engineer and Deployment Strategist. Anthropic posts the same first name in Munich, with a travel share and with Claude in the customer's system. What the role does to the margin, and why the installation looks like consulting while the invoice looks like software, is in the ontology. The McGrinsey Ratio for Palantir sits there at 132.
The rest of the list is the layer under the new word. Knowledge Engineer is the older title. Sheffield uses it in the running text of a 2026 ad. Data Modeler, Process Analyst, Enterprise Architect, Data Steward, Information Architect, Solutions Architect: the work is known. The ads this autumn rarely call it that. Someone looking for a job looks for Ontology Engineer. Someone building a company starts with five objects, not the org chart.
Five objects, one burger, one action with an approval. The tool for that sits in the frame article.
What labs and companies are posting in fall 2026.
The 30 names and the 17 ontology ads from October 1 stay the first layer. Above that, in fall 2026, labs and applied companies post titles that are not on the challenge list yet. The Munich Anthropic row and the Palantir rows higher up stay the October 1 count. The width here is September 19. A third layer is just getting names on X, before a company puts the title on a page.
| Title | Company | Where it stands |
|---|---|---|
| Member of Technical Staff | Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI | LinkedIn, as of December 2025 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | OpenAI, Anthropic, Databricks, Palantir, Scale AI, Ramp | Open roles, September 19, 2026 |
| Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement | OpenAI | San Francisco, hybrid, three days |
| Agentic Ontology Software Engineer | Lockheed Martin | Bethesda, September 9, 2026 |
| Staff Scientist (Biological Ontologist) | BenchSci | Toronto, remote, drug discovery |
| Senior Biomedical Ontologist | Hone Health | Mirror, February 28, 2026 |
| Principal AI Engineer, Context | Elastic | United Kingdom, remote, September 22, 2026 |
| Agentic Context Engineer | WisdomAI | Bengaluru, on site, September 23, 2026 |
| AI Agent Engineer | Sticker Mule | Fully remote, 150,000 to 250,000 dollars |
| Artificial Intelligence Agents Engineer | Mindtrace | Recruiting from September 3, 2026 |
| AI Security Engineer | Microsoft, Red Team Strategic AI | Mirror, September 18, 2026 |
Member of Technical Staff. My reading: the anti-title. The New York Times, Lora Kelley, September 27, 2026: as of December 2025, 39 percent of Anthropic, 31 percent of OpenAI, and 26 percent of xAI listed member of technical staff as their current position on LinkedIn. Nick Bloom and Gideon Slocum Moore, Stanford, counted it. Over the last year, use rose 50 percent among employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft AI, and xAI. The paper puts researchers, senior software engineers, and senior product managers under the same word. A product manager at Google DeepMind publicly gave up the PM title. Researchers, former product people, and senior engineers sit next to each other under it.
Forward Deployed Engineer and Applied AI Engineer. My reading: the same work, two labels. On September 19, 2026, at 23:14 UTC, Mat Caniglia counted the open boards. Titles with forward deployed: Databricks 100 of 877, Palantir 77 of 313, OpenAI 21 of 818, Scale AI 18 of 223, Anthropic 7 of 611, Ramp 2 of 148. Anthropic, US base 280,000 to 320,000 dollars, read the same day. Palantir, New York, Forward Deployed Software Engineer: 135,000 to 200,000 dollars plus RSUs, also that day. The OpenAI band of 162,000 to 280,000 dollars plus equity on the same page comes from a snapshot dated March 13, 2026, not from the September count. Databricks publishes a band on 68 of 100 of these ads. The dollars are not in that piece. OpenAI describes the person at the strategic customer, from discovery through production rollout, with success measured by adoption and evals. Anthropic: build inside the customer's system, with Claude, and hand over MCP servers, sub-agents, and agent skills. My reading of the label: Anthropic often calls the role Applied AI Engineer so it does not sound like field service.
Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement, at OpenAI. The Tallo mirror prints the ad: 197,000 to 280,000 dollars plus equity, San Francisco, hybrid, three days in the office. The team is Agent Enablement Applied AI Engineering. The person sits on the partner side. OAuth and OIDC, PKCE, token exchange, APIs, CLIs, MCP servers, so other sites become operable by agents. Enterprise Applied AI Engineer at OpenAI is its own ad, with other numbers.
Agentic Ontology Software Engineer. Lockheed Martin, Bethesda, posted September 9, 2026. The text says Senior AI Engineer for ontologies, knowledge graphs, and production AI. Enterprise data becomes knowledge an application can use. RDF, OWL, SPARQL. Agents past the prototype. A second Lockheed title, AI Full Stack Engineer, Agentic Systems and Ontology, is a different posting. BenchSci wants a Staff Scientist (Biological Ontologist) in Toronto, remote, for drug discovery. Indeed, around September 2, 2026. The card says 138,000 to 158,000 dollars a year. The ad text prints the same figures as 138,000 to 158,000 pounds. Both lines are on the page. Hone Health wants a Senior Biomedical Ontologist, remote, for the longevity ontology and the knowledge graph. Himalayas prints 150,000 to 180,000 dollars, posted February 28, 2026, apply by April 29, 2026. On October 4, 2026, Greenhouse job 5132758008 is not on the open list. My reading: this is the specialization the McGrinsey title Ontology Engineer has not spelled out yet.
Principal AI Engineer, Context, at Elastic. WantRemote, September 22, 2026, United Kingdom, remote. The Context Engine team builds the knowledge layer agents read over Elasticsearch. Extraction into a structured AI Index, served through public APIs, MCP tools, and framework integrations, and the loop through agent traces: evals, telemetry, improvement from real use. The page names no salary. WisdomAI posts Agentic Context Engineer in parallel, Bengaluru, on site, field engineering. ZipRecruiter dates the entry September 23, 2026. In the text the person is an Agentic Context Architect and takes customers from the first sketch to a running deployment. No salary on the mirror.
AI Agent Engineer, Sticker Mule, fully remote. The careers page: 150,000 to 250,000 dollars, a 20,000 dollar signing bonus, four weeks of vacation plus the country's holidays. The person builds, runs, and manages a team of agents. One line of the ad: Measure results and remove agents that don't deliver. Mindtrace is looking, through the Clark Atlanta University career board, for an Artificial Intelligence Agents Engineer. Recruiting began September 3, 2026. The listing expired October 3, 2026. The text says Agentic Workflow / AI Product Engineer for inspection products. Agents that make industrial AI easier to deploy, diagnose, explain, support, and improve. No salary on the page.
AI Security Engineer. A Campus Building mirror, posted September 18, 2026, prints a Microsoft ad for Red Team Strategic AI. Microsoft Red Team emulates threats against Microsoft, external customers, and frontier AI systems. The person does Cyber Capability Evaluation: offensive evaluations of the cyber capability of frontier, preview, production, and open-weight models, including vulnerability analysis, exploit development, post-exploitation, and multi-step workflows, plus ranges, harnesses, and containment. Inside the ad text are Microsoft's own bands for Security Research. IC3 in the US: 102,100 to 202,200 dollars, in the Bay Area and New York 133,800 to 219,200. IC4 in the US: 119,800 to 234,700 dollars, in the Bay Area and New York 160,200 to 261,000. The wording is from that mirror.
On October 5, 2026 another row arrives. The names stand the way they are called. One sentence beside each says what work the name means.
| Title | What the name means | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise AI Governance & Trust Layer Engineer | PII, prompt injection, and policy-as-code between company data and the model. | Jobgether, October 2, 2026, Canada, remote. |
| AI Scientist, Agentic AI for Drug Discovery | Builds agents for literature, targets, synthetic routes, experimental design, and the reading of the results. | XtalPi. Northern Arizona University, September 10 to October 11, 2026. |
| AI Architect | One of 13 new role types Box created in June 2026. | New York Times, June 1, 2026. Box. |
| AI Solutions Manager | One of 13 new role types Box created in June 2026. | New York Times, June 1, 2026. Box. |
| AI Platform Leader | One of 13 new role types Box created in June 2026. | New York Times, June 1, 2026. Box. |
| Context Engineer | Supply is still thin. Demand is already there. | X, @adxtyahq, October 1, 2026. The same name at @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. |
| AI Evaluation Engineer | Supply is still thin. Demand is already there. | X, @adxtyahq, October 1, 2026. |
| AI Behavior Engineer | Supply is still thin. Demand is already there. | X, @adxtyahq, October 1, 2026. |
| AI Reliability Engineer | Supply is still thin. Demand is already there. | X, @adxtyahq, October 1, 2026. |
| AI Red Team Engineer | Supply is still thin. Demand is already there. | X, @adxtyahq, October 1, 2026. |
| AI Enablement Specialist | Audits workflows, connects internal data to models over MCP, token budget and guardrails, adoption. | X, @shubh19, October 1, 2026. |
| Inference Engineer | Quantization, paged attention, continuous batching, speculative decoding, less GPU memory. | X, @ashishllm, September 17, 2026. |
| Agent Orchestrator | Many agents, one trace, one abort rule. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Agent Observability Engineer | Many agents, one trace, one abort rule. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Evals Engineer | Prove that it holds inside the workflow. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Same family as AI Evaluation Engineer. Sentence: my reading. |
| Agent Auditor | Prove that it holds inside the workflow. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| AI Toolsmith | MCP tools, skills, and connectors are the product. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Token Budget Manager | Purchasing and a cost cap for agents, the way software licenses work. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Agent Procurement Specialist | Purchasing and a cost cap for agents, the way software licenses work. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Agent-to-Agent Negotiation Broker | Two company agents close one transaction. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Agent Insurance Underwriter | Liability and the night shift, once agents move money. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| AI Incident Responder | Liability and the night shift, once agents move money. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Synthetic Data Engineer | Worlds and data you test agents against before a customer sees them. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Simulation Engineer | Worlds and data you test agents against before a customer sees them. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| Human-in-the-Loop Reviewer | The remaining work the model is supposed to leave alone. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
| AI Literacy Trainer | The remaining work the model is supposed to leave alone. | X, @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026. Sentence: my reading. |
At @ZazenCodes the September 29 post is the name list. The sentences beside those names are my reading of October 5, 2026. AI Evaluation Engineer and Evals Engineer are the same family, two spellings.
My reading, October 5, 2026: six names already sit close to posted titles. Context Engineer next to Principal AI Engineer, Context, at Elastic. Evals Engineer next to the frontier evals at Microsoft. Agent Enablement Engineer next to Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement, at OpenAI. AI Behavior / Reliability Engineer as the pair from the October 1 post. Inference Engineer under that name. Trust-Layer Engineer next to Enterprise AI Governance & Trust Layer Engineer. These six are not on the challenge list.
17 pages. Two proposals.
| Statement | Basket | From |
|---|---|---|
| 30 names sit on the challenge list on October 7, 2026, from Ontologist to Context Feeder. The count aims at at least 100. | Fact | John McGrinsey, this piece. The names are set. |
| Ontologist, Ontology OG, Prompt Reviewer, Promptlog Rocker, Zivilisationsberater, Ontology Engineer, Semantic Mining Operator, the six 1000X names, and the Ultrafounder are new jobs of the AI age. | Hypothesis | John's count. Prompt Reviewer was already a proposal in this piece. Ontology Engineer and Ontologist also sit on postings. |
| Vibe Game Reviewer, Vibe Game Test Player, Vibe Game Builder, Game Master, and Game Maker are new jobs that did not exist in this form. Making money with them is hard. It was already hard. It gets harder. Cooler games sit on the other side. | Hypothesis | John's count, October 1, 2026. Game Master and Game Maker are older words. New is the form. |
| Consciousness Designer, Artificial Life Designer, AI Engineer, AI Consultant, AI Transformation Teacher, Planetary Decoration Object, and Optimist are on the list. The AI Engineer splits into hundreds of specializations. Optimist is a job, and McGrinsey certifies the Optimal Optimist. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 3, 2026. |
| Mindshaper, Artificial Personality Uploader, and Semantic Miner are on the list. Mindshaper shapes a mind. Artificial Personality Uploader uploads an artificial personality. Semantic Miner pulls meaning out of the material. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 4, 2026. |
| Context Feeder is on the list. Someone feeds context into AI systems, just like feeding coal into a steam engine back in the days. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 7, 2026. |
| Digital goods and services on the App Store: $149 billion in 2025. In-app advertising: $151 billion. Food, travel, and stores in the same study: $1.14 trillion. | Fact | Apple, Analysis Group, June 4, 2026. |
| Google advertising 2025: $294.7 billion. Search and other 224.5, YouTube ads 40.4, Network 29.8. | Fact | Alphabet Form 10-K for 2025, filed February 5, 2026. Google advertising line, in millions: 294,691. |
| Shutterstock 2025: $989.9 million revenue, of which $786.7 million is content. | Fact | Shutterstock full-year release, February 17, 2026. |
| These digital models are open to attack because the whole thing is digital and execution runs automated. Ideas are what still counts. You are faster right now than any enterprise. | Hypothesis | John's reading, October 1, 2026. |
| 17 titles sat on a posting or a careers page on October 1, 2026. | Fact | Sources below, one address per title. |
| As of December 2025, 39 percent at Anthropic, 31 percent at OpenAI, and 26 percent at xAI listed member of technical staff on LinkedIn. Among employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft AI, and xAI, use rose 50 percent in the last year. | Fact | New York Times, Lora Kelley, September 27, 2026. Count by Nick Bloom and Gideon Slocum Moore, Stanford. |
| Member of Technical Staff is the anti-title. Researchers, former product people, and senior engineers sit next to each other under it. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 4, 2026. |
| On September 19, 2026, at 23:14 UTC, open titles with forward deployed: Databricks 100 of 877, Palantir 77 of 313, OpenAI 21 of 818, Scale AI 18 of 223, Anthropic 7 of 611, Ramp 2 of 148. | Fact | Clouditive, Mat Caniglia, measured against Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. |
| Anthropic, US base 280,000 to 320,000 dollars, read September 19, 2026. Palantir, New York, FDSE, 135,000 to 200,000 dollars plus RSUs, read the same day. The OpenAI band of 162,000 to 280,000 dollars plus equity on the same page is from March 13, 2026. | Fact | The same Clouditive page. Databricks: 68 of 100 FDE ads name a band. The dollars are not printed there. |
| Forward Deployed Engineer and Applied AI Engineer are the same work under two labels. Anthropic often calls the role Applied AI Engineer so it does not sound like field service. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 4, 2026. |
| OpenAI, Applied AI Engineer, Agent Enablement: 197,000 to 280,000 dollars plus equity, San Francisco, hybrid, three days in the office. OAuth, OIDC, PKCE, APIs, CLIs, MCP servers. | Fact | Tallo mirror of the ad, read October 4, 2026. |
| Lockheed Martin, Agentic Ontology Software Engineer, Bethesda, September 9, 2026: ontology, knowledge graph, agents past the prototype, RDF, OWL, SPARQL. | Fact | My Next Move. |
| BenchSci, Staff Scientist (Biological Ontologist): the Indeed card says 138,000 to 158,000 dollars a year, the ad text says 138,000 to 158,000 pounds. | Fact | Indeed Canada, around September 2, 2026. Toronto, remote, drug discovery. |
| Hone Health, Senior Biomedical Ontologist: Himalayas says 150,000 to 180,000 dollars, posted February 28, 2026, apply by April 29, 2026. On October 4, 2026, Greenhouse job 5132758008 is missing from the open list. | Fact | Himalayas. Hone Health's open Greenhouse list, read October 4, 2026. |
| Biological and biomedical ontology is the specialization the McGrinsey title Ontology Engineer has not spelled out yet. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 4, 2026. |
| Elastic, Principal AI Engineer, Context, September 22, 2026, United Kingdom, remote: Context Engine, extraction, public APIs, MCP, traces, evals. No salary on the mirror. | Fact | WantRemote. |
| WisdomAI, Agentic Context Engineer, September 23, 2026, Bengaluru, on site. The text says Agentic Context Architect, field engineering. No salary. | Fact | ZipRecruiter India. The Ashby page says on-site. |
| Sticker Mule, AI Agent Engineer, fully remote: 150,000 to 250,000 dollars, 20,000 dollar signing bonus, four weeks of vacation. Measure results and remove agents that don't deliver. | Fact | Sticker Mule careers page. |
| Mindtrace, Artificial Intelligence Agents Engineer, recruiting from September 3, 2026, listing expired October 3, 2026. The text says Agentic Workflow / AI Product Engineer, industrial inspection. No salary. | Fact | Clark Atlanta University career board. |
| Microsoft, AI Security Engineer, mirror of September 18, 2026: offensive cyber-capability evaluations of frontier, preview, production, and open-weight models. Security Research IC3, US, 102,100 to 202,200 dollars, Bay Area and New York 133,800 to 219,200. IC4, US, 119,800 to 234,700, Bay Area and New York 160,200 to 261,000. | Fact | Campus Building. The bands are inside the mirrored ad text. |
| A third layer is just getting names on X, before a company posts the title. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 4, 2026. |
| Enterprise AI Governance & Trust Layer Engineer, Jobgether, October 2, 2026, Canada, remote: PII, prompt injection, policy-as-code between company data and the model. No company name and no salary on the page. | Fact | Jobgether, jobs.ca. |
| XtalPi, AI Scientist, Agentic AI for Drug Discovery. Recruiting from September 10, 2026, the listing runs until October 11, 2026. Agents for literature, target analysis, synthetic routes, experimental design, and iterative reading of results. The seat sits at AI, medicinal chemistry, and research. | Fact | Northern Arizona University career board. |
| Box, according to the New York Times, Kalley Huang, June 1, 2026, created 13 new kinds of roles because of AI. Named: AI Architect, AI Solutions Manager, and AI Platform Leader. Headcount goes from 2,900 at the start of 2026 toward more than 3,000 by early 2027. Aaron Levie is CEO. The piece does not give a separate job description for the three titles. | Fact | New York Times, June 1, 2026. |
| @adxtyahq, October 1, 2026: Context Engineer, AI Evaluation Engineer, AI Behavior Engineer, AI Reliability Engineer, AI Red Team Engineer. Demand is good. Supply is still thin. | Fact | Post on X, October 1, 2026. |
| @shubh19, October 1, 2026, AI Enablement Specialist: audit workflows, connect internal data to models over MCP, guardrails for security, data leaks, and token budget, adoption with engineers and sales. The post gives 15 hours a week on manual data as an example. | Fact | Post on X, October 1, 2026. The 15 hours are his example. |
| @ashishllm, September 17, 2026, title Inference Engineer. Topics in the post: quantization with less GPU memory, KV cache, paged attention, flash attention, kernel fusion, speculative decoding, continuous batching, prompt caching. | Fact | Post on X, September 17, 2026. |
| @ZazenCodes, September 29, 2026, posts a list with no description of the work. The table holds Agent Orchestrator, Evals Engineer, Agent Auditor, Context Engineer, Human-in-the-Loop Reviewer, Agent Observability Engineer, AI Toolsmith, Token Budget Manager, Agent Procurement Specialist, Agent-to-Agent Negotiation Broker, Simulation Engineer, AI Incident Responder, Synthetic Data Engineer, Agent Insurance Underwriter, AI Literacy Trainer. The same post also names Agent Red Teamer, AI Compliance Officer, Agent HR Manager, Agent Security Engineer, and Conversational/Voice Experience Designer. | Fact | Post on X, September 29, 2026. |
| The sentences beside the @ZazenCodes names are a reading. AI Evaluation Engineer and Evals Engineer are the same family. Six names sit close to posted titles: Context Engineer, Evals Engineer, Agent Enablement Engineer, AI Behavior / Reliability Engineer, Inference Engineer, Trust-Layer Engineer. These six are not on the challenge list. | Hypothesis | John McGrinsey, October 5, 2026. |
| Samba TV: Ontology Engineer, 150,000 to 180,000 dollars. AverIQ: 150,000 to 175,000. Sheffield: 38,784 to 47,389 pounds. | Fact | The range is in the ad. |
| Palantir: the FDSE unlocks many capabilities for one customer. The product engineer builds one capability for many customers. Internal name Delta. | Fact | Palantir blog, A Day in the Life, 2020. Careers page September 29, 2026. |
| Ontology Designer and Prompt Reviewer are names from this piece. The work sits with the Ontology Engineer, the Architect, and the Scientific Curator. | Hypothesis | Our naming, after the tasks in the ads. |
| Data Modeler, Process Analyst, Enterprise Architect, Data Steward, Information Architect, Solutions Architect are the same layer under older names. | Hypothesis | A reading from the tasks in the ads, not from a single page with this title. |
- Samba TV, Ontology EngineerRDF, OWL, SHACL. 150,000 to 180,000 dollars. September 27, 2026.https://startup.jobs/ontology-engineer-knowledge-graph-identity-samba-tv-7858978
- Booz Allen, Palantir Foundry Ontology EngineerArlington. Ontology, workflow, AIP.https://jobswithdod.com/defense-company-jobs/palantir-foundry-ontology-engineer-3/
- AverIQ, Senior Palantir Foundry Ontology EngineerHouston. 150,000 to 175,000 dollars.https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=ced42e7b4c09a19f
- Tenth Revolution, Ontology DeveloperCologne, remote, twelve months. October 1, 2026.https://www.freelancermap.de/projekt/palantir-foundry-ontology-developer-m-f-d-remote
- Ontology Architect, CarlyleNew York or Washington. May 2026.https://vividresourcing.com/job/ontology-architect-palantir/
- Accenture, Senior OntologistSeattle. OWL 2, RDFS, SKOS. September 30, 2026.https://haystackapp.io/jobs/8f0d8c5f-2ea4-4786-9693-a591aff5a611
- University of SheffieldKnowledge Graph and Ontology Specialist. 38,784 to 47,389 pounds. September 29, 2026.https://uk.linkedin.com/jobs/view/knowledge-graph-and-ontology-specialist-at-the-university-of-sheffield-4462517616
- Fluor, Knowledge Graph & Ontology EngineerVadodara. RDF, OWL, SPARQL.https://thrivecareers.fluor.com/job/Vadodara-Knowledge-Graph-&-Ontology-Engineer-GJ/1378147500/
- Siemens, Ontology ExpertBengaluru. Ontology and knowledge graph.https://www.naukri.com/job-listings-ontology-expert-knowledge-graph-engineer-siemens-limited-bengaluru-6-to-11-years-190126909029
- The Hartford, OntologistJune 2026. 156,000 to 234,000 dollars.https://simplify.jobs/p/69395e94-1829-48af-a718-5ba18bde7b04/Knowledge-Graph-Engineer--Ontologist
- Gusto, Taxonomist / OntologistTaxonomy for AI systems.https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gusto/jobs/7364020
- EcoVadis, Senior Knowledge Graph EngineerSeptember 24, 2026.https://startup.jobs/senior-knowledge-graph-engineer-ecovadis-8803001
- GSPANN, Ontology Support EngineerObjects, actions, write-back.https://haystackapp.io/jobs/06889203-2eaa-4bd4-ad1b-06dce235ad4d
- Palantir, careersForward Deployed Software Engineer, Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Deployment Strategist.https://www.palantir.com/careers/open-positions/
- Palantir blog, FDSEMany capabilities, one customer. Internal name Delta.https://blog.palantir.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-palantir-forward-deployed-software-engineer-45ef2de257b1
- Anthropic, Forward Deployed EngineerMunich. 25 to 50 percent travel. August 17, 2026.https://jobs.accel.com/companies/anthropic/jobs/90192188-forward-deployed-engineer
- Harvard, FlyBase, Scientific CuratorCheck of AI annotations, prompts in the curation pipeline.https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37972743/scientific-curator/
- Apple, App Store ecosystem 2025Analysis Group. Digital goods and services $149 billion. In-app advertising $151 billion. Physical goods $1.14 trillion. June 4, 2026.https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/app-store-ecosystem-reaches-1-point-4-trillion-usd-as-developers-thrive-globally/
- Alphabet, Form 10-K 2025Google advertising $294,691 million. Filed February 5, 2026.https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204426000018/goog-20251231.htm
- Shutterstock, full year 2025Revenue $989.9 million. Content $786.7 million. February 17, 2026.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/shutterstock-reports-full-year-2025-and-fourth-quarter-financial-results-302688474.html
- New York Times, Member of Technical StaffLora Kelley, September 27, 2026. Nick Bloom and Gideon Slocum Moore, Stanford.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/business/members-of-technical-staff-artificial-intelligence.html
- Clouditive, Forward Deployed AI EngineerCount of September 19, 2026, 23:14 UTC. Mat Caniglia.https://dxclouditive.com/en/blog/forward-deployed-ai-engineer/
- OpenAI, Applied AI Engineer, Agent EnablementTallo mirror. 197,000 to 280,000 dollars, San Francisco, hybrid.https://tallo.com/talent/job/technology/artificial-intelligence-engineer/remote/applied-ai-engineer-agent-ena-4996909b
- Lockheed Martin, Agentic Ontology Software EngineerBethesda. September 9, 2026. My Next Move.https://www.mynextmove.org/profile/jobinfo?id=5D5B86BA532B4322ACF464BB69BB8F43206
- BenchSci, Biological OntologistIndeed Canada. Card in dollars, text in pounds, same figures.https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=00d7d64685a738b6
- Hone Health, Senior Biomedical OntologistHimalayas. 150,000 to 180,000 dollars. February 28, 2026, apply by April 29, 2026.https://himalayas.app/companies/hone-health/jobs/senior-biomedical-ontologist
- Elastic, Principal AI Engineer, ContextWantRemote. September 22, 2026. United Kingdom, remote.https://wantremote.com/job/principal-ai-engineer-context-agents-and-context-82852
- WisdomAI, Agentic Context EngineerZipRecruiter India. September 23, 2026. Bengaluru.https://www.ziprecruiter.in/jobs/604951145-agentic-context-engineer-bengaluru-india-at-wisdomai
- Sticker Mule, AI Agent Engineer150,000 to 250,000 dollars, 20,000 signing bonus, fully remote.https://www.stickermule.com/career/2f01bd23-9eda-446a-a56a-b530d84cb9bb
- Mindtrace, Artificial Intelligence Agents EngineerClark Atlanta University. Recruiting from September 3, 2026.https://cpd.cau.edu/jobs/mindtrace-ltd-artificial-intelligence-agents-engineer/
- Microsoft, AI Security EngineerCampus Building, mirror of September 18, 2026. Red Team Strategic AI.https://campusbuilding.com/company/microsoft/jobs/ai-security-engineer/66435/
- Jobgether, Enterprise AI Governance & Trust Layer EngineerOctober 2, 2026. Canada, remote. Company unnamed. No salary.https://www.jobs.ca/jobgether/jobs/enterprise-ai-governance-trust-layer-engineer-remote-canada-64d096581d6e
- XtalPi, AI Scientist, Agentic AI for Drug DiscoveryNorthern Arizona University. Recruiting from September 10, 2026, listing through October 11, 2026.https://scecareer.nau.edu/jobs/xtalpi-inc-ai-scientist/
- New York Times, Box, 13 new rolesKalley Huang, June 1, 2026. AI Architect, AI Solutions Manager, AI Platform Leader.https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/technology/box-13-new-types-jobs-ai.html
- @adxtyahq, five titlesOctober 1, 2026. Context Engineer through AI Red Team Engineer.https://x.com/adxtyahq/status/2105731611950252042
- @shubh19, AI Enablement SpecialistOctober 1, 2026. Workflows, MCP, guardrails, adoption.https://x.com/shubh19/status/2105601868399518000
- @ashishllm, Inference EngineerSeptember 17, 2026. Quantization, paged attention, continuous batching, speculative decoding.https://x.com/ashishllm/status/2100594707927912450
- @ZazenCodes, name listSeptember 29, 2026. A list with no job description.https://x.com/ZazenCodes/status/2104788333490581920
- Ontology, the frameFour primitives, mini-ontology, Palantir, McGrinsey Ratio 132.https://mcgrinsey.com/magazin/ontology-four-primitives/
Research: October 1, 2026. Second layer: October 4, 2026. Names and sentences: October 5, 2026.
