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Best Careers for Technically-Minded People

If you're drawn to understanding how systems work and building or fixing them, you want roles where technical depth is the core skill, not a nice-to-have. These are the most technically-demanding careers in our catalogue, ranked.

Technical demand here is how central deep, systems-level skill is to doing the role well. The roles below reward people who like going deep on how things actually work.

  1. 1Software Engineer$92K – $380K96/100 technical
  2. 2Machine Learning Engineer$130K – $380K96/100 technical
  3. 3Data Engineer$105K – $285K92/100 technical
  4. 4Security Engineer$110K – $295K90/100 technical
  5. 5DevOps Engineer$95K – $245K88/100 technical
  6. 6Frontend Engineer$85K – $248K88/100 technical
  7. 7Backend Engineer$95K – $268K88/100 technical
  8. 8Full-Stack Engineer$88K – $252K88/100 technical
  9. 9QA Engineer$65K – $178K88/100 technical
  10. 10Site Reliability Engineer$110K – $305K88/100 technical
  11. 11Cloud Architect$120K – $295K88/100 technical
  12. 12iOS Developer$88K – $235K88/100 technical
  13. 13Android Developer$85K – $228K88/100 technical
  14. 14Game Developer$65K – $195K88/100 technical
  15. 15Database Administrator$78K – $195K88/100 technical
  16. 16Network Engineer$65K – $168K88/100 technical
  17. 17AI Research Scientist$165K – $595K88/100 technical
  18. 18Blockchain Engineer$105K – $325K88/100 technical
  19. 19Embedded Systems Engineer$78K – $215K88/100 technical
  20. 20Computer Vision Engineer$115K – $345K88/100 technical
  21. 21MLOps Engineer$115K – $308K88/100 technical
  22. 22Robotics Engineer$85K – $245K88/100 technical
  23. 23AR/VR Developer$78K – $218K88/100 technical
  24. 24Developer Advocate$95K – $258K88/100 technical
  25. 25Platform Engineer$110K – $295K88/100 technical

Ranked by technical demand (0-100) from the Work Fit IQ catalog — how central deep technical and systems skill is to the role.

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