Forward deployed engineer jobs up 361%, front-end down 51% in one year
lennysan · x · 2026-11-11
Lenny Rachitsky shares TrueUp data on the fastest-changing engineering roles over the past year: Forward Deployed Engineer (+361%), AI engineer (+46%), and Security engineer (+34%) are booming, while Front-end (-51%), Android (-47%), iOS (-46%), and Mobile (-39%) roles are shrinking sharply — a sign of how AI is reshaping engineering careers.
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