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Public-benefit workforce education on emerging roles, skills pathways, and transition routes across the full economy — for workers, educators, and employers preparing for the future of work.
We want to help enable and catalyze +78 million net new jobs globally by 2030 by partnering across the full economy so AI expands opportunity rather than shrinking it.
Our role is not to act alone, but to work with governments, businesses, universities, training organizations, entrepreneurs, and employers to build the conditions for meaningful work: clearer job pathways, stronger skills programs, and new ventures that can hire people.
From robotics engineers and warehouse teams working alongside automation, to teachers using AI to reach more learners — meaningful work is changing everywhere, not only in sustainability.
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Authoritative workforce reports (2025–2026) show real transition risk alongside demographic pressure. Routine cognitive, administrative, and entry-level roles are among the first affected. Near-term job creation forecasts have already been revised downward in some regions.
Key data points
~300M
Full-time jobs globally have tasks exposed to generative AI automation. Exposure is not the same as displacement.
~7M
Fewer jobs created globally than previously projected for 2025, as economic growth forecasts weakened.
12.4%
Global youth unemployment in 2025. ~260M young people (15–24) are NEET — not in education, employment, or training. Entry-level and graduate roles are tightening.
WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025
Projects 170 million new jobs created and 92 million displaced globally by 2030 — a potential +78 million net gain only if reskilling, policy, and human-centered adoption keep pace. Without deliberate action, current trends could turn net negative.
The global labor force continues to grow, especially in Africa and parts of Asia, even as aging accelerates elsewhere. The world needs net new meaningful jobs over the coming decades, not just replacement of roles AI transforms.
Workforce opportunity spans the full Organizational Atlas — the same 20 domains used for organization types and career catalogs. Open a published domain to browse careers; this Jobs page remains the home for deeper researched profiles.
Domain 1 · Open
Clean energy, grids, minerals, and resource stewardship — 150 careers.
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Domain 2 · Open
Circular design, repair, recovery, and restoration — 150 careers.
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Domain 3 · Open
Food systems, forestry, fisheries, and land stewardship — 150 careers.
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Domain 4 · Open
Production, materials, process engineering, and industrial systems — 150 careers.
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Domain 5 · Open
Building, infrastructure, design, and place-making — 180 careers.
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Domain 6 · Open
Mobility, freight, warehousing, and supply networks — 200 careers.
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Domain 7 · Open
Software, networks, security, and digital infrastructure — 210 careers.
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Domain 8 · Open
Research, evaluation, governance, and human–AI partnership — 210 careers.
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Domain 9 · Open
Design, operations, maintenance, and human–robot collaboration — 230 careers.
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Domain 10 · Open
Orbital systems, exploration, settlement, and planetary stewardship — 240 careers.
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Domain 11 · Open
Clinical care, public health, mental health, and social support — 260 careers.
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Domain 12 · Open
Teaching, learning design, mentorship, and lifelong capability — 260 careers.
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Domain 13 · Open
Capital, risk, exchange, ownership, and land stewardship — 270 careers.
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Domain 14 · Open
Research, design, law, consulting, and specialized expertise — 300 careers.
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Domain 15 · Open
Exchange, merchant systems, consumer access, and circular trade — 300 careers.
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Domain 16 · Open
Hospitality, culture, recreation, and shared experience — 300 careers.
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Domain 17 · Open
Worship, pastoral care, spiritual formation, and faith community service — 310 careers.
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Domain 18 · Open
Civic participation, voluntary service, and community resilience — 360 careers.
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Domain 19 · Open
Public services, justice, democratic institutions, and common stewardship — 410 careers.
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Domain 20 · Open
Operations, facilities, and essential organizational support — 320 careers.
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All 20 domains are open in the Atlas — browse careers and organization types by domain, then return here for deeper researched job profiles.
Every job profile is original SustainAI content — researched, reviewed, and published for public benefit.
We build profiles through:
Drawing from authoritative sources including BLS, O*NET, workforce boards, industry reports, and labor market data across sectors where AI is reshaping work.
Nonprofit volunteers, educators, and organizations can propose emerging jobs, regional insights, and skills pathways for review.
All profiles are fact-checked and approved before publication. Each includes skills requirements, realistic pathways, AI impact analysis, sustainability context where relevant, and clear limitations.
Profiles are designed to encourage thoughtful planning for a hopeful future where humans and AI flourish together.
Concise public profiles for selected careers, drawn from canonical deep records. Browse the full catalog of nearly five thousand careers in the Organizational Atlas.
Artificial Intelligence
AI Engineers design, build, evaluate, deploy, and improve software systems that use artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems reliably and responsibly.
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Agent Engineers build systems that can plan, use tools, maintain state, and take bounded actions on behalf of people or organizations. T.
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Alignment Researchers study how increasingly capable artificial-intelligence systems can remain responsive to legitimate human goals, co.
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Evaluation Scientists create rigorous evidence about whether an artificial-intelligence system actually works as claimed. They design te.
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Energy and Natural Resources
Battery Systems Engineers design the cells, packs, controls, cooling, safety layers, and lifecycle strategies that allow batteries to power vehicles, robots, bu.
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Healthcare and Social Assistance
Clinical Artificial Intelligence Engineers build and validate artificial-intelligence systems for healthcare under clinical oversight. Their work can support di.
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Information Technology and Telecommunications
Cybersecurity Engineers protect the digital foundations that organizations and communities increasingly depend on. They design security controls across software.
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Information Technology and Telecommunications
Data Center Systems Engineers connect computing to the physical infrastructure that makes it possible. They integrate servers, storage, networks, power, cooling.
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Information Technology and Telecommunications
Data Engineers build the pipelines, models, storage systems, quality checks, and governance foundations that make data usable. Their work sits underneath analyt.
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Construction and the Built Environment
Electricians install, maintain, test, repair, and modernize the electrical systems behind homes, buildings, factories, infrastructure, renewable energy, control.
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Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
Financial Accountants make sure an organization's financial records and statements reflect what actually happened. They classify transactions, reconcile account.
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Energy and Natural Resources
Grid Planning Engineers decide how the electric system must evolve before tomorrow's demand arrives. They forecast load, model transmission and substations, eva.
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Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Growth Strategy Professionals help organizations connect valuable products, services, technologies, or missions with the people they are intended to serve through research, positioning, channels, and responsible adoption.
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Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Model Engineers build the systems that turn powerful language models into useful, reliable applications. Their work can include model selection, .
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Healthcare and Social Assistance
Licensed Professional Counselors provide structured therapeutic support for emotional, behavioral, relational, developmental, and life challenges. Their work de.
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Healthcare and Social Assistance
Nurse Practitioners are advanced practice nurses who assess patients, diagnose and manage illness, provide prevention, prescribe therapies where authorized, edu.
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Administrative and Support Services
Organizational Operations Managers design and coordinate the systems that allow an organization to function reliably across people, processes, technology, vendors, budgets, controls, and support services.
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Healthcare and Social Assistance
Registered Nurses assess patients, deliver treatment, monitor change, educate families, coordinate teams, advocate for safety, and provide compassionate care ac.
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Robotics
Robot Maintenance Technicians keep robotic systems safe, accurate, and available. They inspect, clean, lubricate, calibrate, troubleshoot, repair, update, and t.
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Robotics
Robotics Engineers design the machines that bring artificial intelligence into the physical world. They combine mechanics, sensors, electronics, controls, embed.
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Education
Secondary School Teachers help adolescents master subjects while also developing independence, reasoning, collaboration, character, citizenship, and readiness f.
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Information Technology and Telecommunications
Software Engineers design, build, test, secure, deploy, and maintain the digital systems that support nearly every sector of modern life. Artificial intelligenc.
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Energy and Natural Resources
Solar Installation Technicians turn solar designs into working energy systems. They install and commission modules, racking, wiring pathways, controls, and rela.
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Energy and Natural Resources
Solar Energy Forecasting Scientists develop and validate predictions of solar irradiance and photovoltaic power so utilities, solar operators, and grid organizations can plan for changing weather.
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