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Fuel Cell Engineers

Design, evaluate, modify, or construct fuel cell components or systems for transportation, stationary, or portable applications.

88 AI exposure
31 Human advantage
68 Market demand
62 AI leverage

Is Fuel Cell Engineers a safe career from AI?

Fuel Cell Engineers scores 88 out of 100 for AI exposure, which is high. A large share of this work is the kind current AI systems are measurably good at. That is not a prediction the job disappears, and the research does not support one. It means more of this role is likely to change than most.

Its human advantage score is 31, which is low. Most of this role can be done through a screen, and that is the half of the labor market AI has reached first. Market demand scores 68 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment growing 11.2% over ten years.

What Fuel Cell Engineers pay

The median wage is $102,320 a year. The lower quarter earns under $81,800 and the upper quarter over $130,290. About 286,760 people do this work in the United States.

Where Fuel Cell Engineers can go next

Occupations that share most of what this job already requires, ranked by how much carries over.

Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers 92% of the skills carry over $168k median
Computer Hardware Engineers 91% of the skills carry over $155k median
Telecommunications Engineering Specialists 82% of the skills carry over $130k median
Biofuels Production Managers 83% of the skills carry over $121k median

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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