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Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer when your AI model is built but not in production.

Everyone told me AI was going to kill jobs. The data says otherwise.LinkedIn's 2026 Labour Market Report landed recently and one number jumped out at me — 1.3 million new AI-related jobs created in the last two years. Not cut. Created. That's the story nobody is talking about loudly enough, especially here in Australia.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping every industry, every role, and every workforce on the planet. But there's a quiet, uncomfortable truth sitting at the centre of this transformation: the people building it don't look like the people most affected by it.

If you’re hiring a data scientist in Australia right now, you already know the market is competitive. What you might not know is exactly how competitive — or what it’ll cost to make an offer that actually gets accepted.

Australia faces a projected shortfall of 60,000 AI professionals by 2027, and the gap is widening. With only around 2,000 AI graduates entering the workforce each year, the maths simply doesn’t work.

AI product managers sit at the intersection of business strategy and technical AI execution. They’re the person who translates what the organisation needs into what the AI team builds — scoping what’s feasible, prioritising what matters, and making sure the thing that ships actually solves the problem it was designed for.