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Technology Careers
Software, infrastructure, security, and IT — where AI assists builders and where accountability stays human.
What this family is: Technology careers are highly AI-assisted but not uniformly automatable. Architecture, security judgment, and leadership remain human-critical in JR’s researched set.
- 16 individually researched roles linked below
- AI patterns use published Index tiers only — no invented family scores
- Next step: personal assessment → skill gaps → learning → proof → opportunities
Roles included (researched)
Only individually researched occupations are listed with Index tiers. Related directory titles appear on the coverage map as taxonomy-mapped — not as fake research.
Evidence note: AI exposure tiers below come only from JR’s published AI Job Risk Index for individually researched occupations. Taxonomy-mapped titles are discoverable but are not individually scored.
AI impact pattern
Pattern derived only from published AI Job Risk Index tiers for researched roles in this family.
High automation pressure
2 researched roles in this set (published Index: high).
Augmentation-heavy
9 researched roles (published Index: moderate).
Human-led / AI-assisted
5 researched roles (published Index: low).
Common responsibilities
Aggregated from JR’s role taxonomy dimensions for the researched occupations above — not scraped job ads.
- Execution — appears in 11 researched roles in this set
- Analysis — appears in 8 researched roles in this set
- Planning — appears in 7 researched roles in this set
- Judgment — appears in 6 researched roles in this set
- Creation — appears in 4 researched roles in this set
- Compliance — appears in 2 researched roles in this set
- Management — appears in 2 researched roles in this set
- Research — appears in 1 researched role in this set
Human advantage
- Domain expertise — shared across 12 researched roles
- Accountability — shared across 7 researched roles
- Judgment — shared across 7 researched roles
- Physical presence — shared across 3 researched roles
- Leadership — shared across 3 researched roles
- Relationships — shared across 2 researched roles
- Creativity — shared across 2 researched roles
Career family branches
Software, infrastructure, security, IT operations, and platform engineering.
- Software Engineering
- Cloud & Infrastructure
- Security
- IT Support
- Data Platforms
Typical moves & adjacent careers
- sde to sdm (software-developer → engineering-manager)
- sde to tpm (software-developer → technical-program-manager)
- sde to technical product manager (software-developer → technical-product-manager)
- sde to solutions architect (software-developer → solutions-architect)
- sde to ai ml engineer (software-developer → ai-engineer)
- sde to staff principal engineer (software-developer → staff-principal-engineer)
- sdm to tpm (engineering-manager → technical-program-manager)
- sdm to product manager (engineering-manager → product-manager)
- sdm to technical product manager (engineering-manager → technical-product-manager)
- tpm to engineering manager (technical-program-manager → engineering-manager)
- tpm to solutions architect (technical-program-manager → solutions-architect)
- qa to sde (sdet → software-developer)
What can I move into? · Skills that survive across careers
Learning & proof
Academy topics and public guides already wired to these roles:
- What is AI?
- How AI Shows Up at Work Today
- AI Terms You Should Know
- Prompt Engineering Techniques (Chain-of-Thought, ReAct)
- Data Manipulation with Pandas
- Relational Database Design & SQL Basics
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
- Git Core Concepts & Branching
Also: Upskill Academy · Excel at Work · Freelance projects · Job board
Degrees that commonly lead here
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Updated 2026-09-15. Methodology: how scoring works · research · coverage & evidence depths.