The AI Roles Every Tech Team Is Trying to Figure Out - Stacked Tech Hiring Insights [Ep 3]

The AI Roles Every Tech Team Is Trying to Figure Out - Stacked Tech Hiring Insights [Ep 3]

June 4, 2026 · 15 min · Episode 244

About this episode

This episode discusses the evolving landscape of AI roles in tech hiring and clarifies various job titles and their meanings.

AI is changing tech hiring, but the job titles are still catching up. AI engineer. AI agent engineer. Machine learning engineer. Data scientist. Forward deployed engineer. Some of these roles are new. Some are old roles with new tools. And some get used interchangeably even when they should not. In this episode of Stacked: Tech Hiring Insights, Matt Mulcahy breaks down what these AI and engineering roles actually mean, how companies are hiring for them, and where the market is headed.

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