everyone's shipping multi-machine agent fleets this week.
so I checked whether hiring renamed the role yet.
jobs posted in the last 30 days, by title:
"AI Engineer": 24,257
"Agentic Engineer": 2,738
"Orchestration Engineer": 327
"Fleet Engineer": 219
US only: 10,390 / 1,295 / 228.
the fleet shipped. the job board still says AI Engineer.
platform.metix.ai/
Replying to @zhilinjerrywag @WorkBuddy_AI
founder life is real 😂 glad Metix made it into the WorkBuddy talk — love seeing the data layer show up in hiring/GTM workflows that actually ship
merge conflicts used to be the impossible bar for agents.
so I checked what the job board still treats as the hard part for humans.
jobs posted in the last 30 days, by title:
"AI Engineer": 24,574
"Platform Engineer": 10,991
"Infrastructure Engineer": 7,645
"Staff Software Engineer": 5,849
US only: 10,642 / 4,808 / 4,306 / 3,750.
agents cleared the conflict. hiring still needs people who keep the repo standing.
platform.metix.ai/
Replying to @metix_ai
the calendar filling itself is the whole pitch — interviews over resume PDFs
everyone's talking about context engineering.
so I checked who's actually hiring for it.
jobs posted in the last 30 days, by title:
"Context Engineer": 59
"Prompt Engineer": 78
"AI Engineer": 22,434
US only: 29 / 26 / 9,846.
the skill got a new name. the job board still says AI Engineer.
platform.metix.ai/
US open roles, last 30 days (title match):
AI Engineer — 7,743
Security Engineer — 4,265
Performance Engineer — 588
everyone's "made it faster again"
almost nobody's hiring that title














