Software Engineer Is Splitting Into Four Jobs - Which One Are You Actually Doing?

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40+ AI job titles, four actual jobs, an $86K spread for identical work. Why the software engineer title unbundled — and how to price yourself by verb.
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Two engineers doing identical RAG work in the same building can sit $80,000 apart because one posting said "LLM Engineer" and the other said "AI Engineer." The old software engineer title bundled four separable jobs — Build, Ground, Prove, Deploy — and probabilistic systems pulled them apart and priced each separately. This is the map of The Unbundling, the verb test for finding which cell you're paid for, and why the two cells engineers avoid are the ones that are scarce.