Looking for a fresh career in the latest tech field? Here are three of our favourite new tech careers that have hit the market in the last decade
Digital Transformation Specialist
Good with tech and want a career that will help others? Reboot the future of work as a digital transformation specialist, helping businesses improve how they use tech. In this role, you’ll look at how businesses operate, identify slow or outdated systems and spot areas for improvement.
This job is about finding the right digital tools to fix problems, improve efficiency or create better experiences for customers and employees. If you like setting up and testing software, apps or automated systems to ensure they integrate smoothly with existing technology, it could be the perfect position for you. You might also train other staff so they understand and feel confident using new tools.
Be a Digital Transformation Specialist.
AI Ethicist
Here’s your chance to help ensure that AI is safe and beneficial to humanity. An AI ethicist specialises in the ethics around AI development and implementation, studying and identifying ethical or moral issues that may arise.
AI ethicists present their findings to governments and businesses so they can catch issues early in the development process. This can save time, money and harm to their reputation, and, most importantly, protect the people who their work impacts.
Check out what it’s like to be an AI Ethicist.
Metaverse engineer
The metaverse is the next generation of the web. Metaverse technologies are predicted to change the way we see and interact with the virtual world, bringing it physically into our daily lives. Tech such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and the internet of things (IoT) will help facilitate it.
Jobs in the metaverse include data scientists and analysts, blockchain engineers, VR and AR developers and programmers, and AI specialists working in machine learning. These specialist engineers will be needed in everything from tourism and healthcare, to education, real estate and gaming!
Find out more about being a Metaverse Engineer.
This article first appeared in Careers with STEM: Technology 2025.
