Everyone Is an "Engineer" Now, and Nobody Knows What Anyone Does
A CTOโs field guide to the 2026 AI job title theater, with a companion reference guide covering all 40 roles. I have been a CTO for most of my adult life. I have hired, fired, onboarded, mentored, and occasionally been forced to explain to finance why a โSenior Applied Generative AI Engineer IIโ and a โStaff LLM Engineerโ should sit in the same comp band. What I can tell you, after twenty yearsโฆ









