一则戏仿的“断电开关工程师”广告拿拔掉服务器开玩笑，但围绕 AI 代理的劳动力市场正在扩张，出现更高薪、更专业的新角色，例如负责训练模型的领域专家标注员。Mercor 这个为此招聘领域专家的平台估值达 100 亿美元，其首席执行官称参与者平均每小时赚 90 美元。

在训练之后，前沿部署工程师（FDE）把代理嵌入客户组织，工作内容混合了开发者、顾问与销售技能，而需求正从较低基数快速上升。Y Combinator 的初创公司给出了 63 个 FDE 岗位，比一年前的 4 个增加到 63 个——从 63:4 的跃升（约 15.75 倍）。

治理工作也在扩大：由思科牵头的 AI Workforce Consortium 审视了富裕国家的 50 个 IT 职位，发现增长最快的类别是 AI 风险与治理专家。在更高层，首席 AI 官负责协调落地，因为大型企业最多同时使用 11 个生成式 AI 模型（IBM），这既提高了集成复杂度，也强化了对安全护栏的需求。

A mock “killswitch engineer” ad jokes about unplugging servers, but the labor market around AI agents is expanding into higher-paid, more specialized roles such as expert annotators who train models. Mercor, a platform hiring domain experts for this work, was valued at $10bn, and its CEO says contributors earn $90 an hour on average.

After training, forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) embed agents inside client organizations, mixing developer, consultant, and sales skills, and demand is rising from a small base. Y Combinator’s startups listed 63 FDE openings, up from four a year earlier—a 63:4 jump (about 15.75×).

Governance work is scaling too: a Cisco-led AI Workforce Consortium reviewed 50 IT jobs in rich countries and found AI risk-and-governance specialists to be the fastest-growing category. At the top, chief AI officers coordinate adoption as large enterprises run as many as 11 generative-AI models (IBM), raising both integration complexity and the perceived need for safeguards.

Source: Job apocalypse? Not yet. AI is creating brand new occupations

Subtitle: Most needed: human skills

Dateline: 12月 18, 2025 05:44 上午 | SAN FRANCISCO