Gen Z accounted for 69% of AI engineer hires and 68% of forward deployed engineer hires in 2025.
Millennials accounted for 60% of head of AI hires.
per Linkedin, article by WSJ.
The data further says 90% of people hired into AI-related jobs had a bachelor’s degree, 20% of AI leadership hires had doctorates, and women represented only 26% of AI hires.
AI’s labor-market impact may ultimately be less about jobs disappearing everywhere than about opportunity moving faster than everyone can move with it.