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Aerospace Engineers
Perform engineering duties in designing, constructing, and testing aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft. May conduct basic and applied research to evaluate adaptability of materials and equipment to aircraft design and manufacture. May recommend improvements in testing equipment and techniques.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Formulate conceptual design of aeronautical or aerospace products or systems to meet customer requirements or conform to environmental regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Evaluate product data or design from inspections or reports for conformance to engineering principles, customer requirements, environmental regulations, or quality standards.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Direct or coordinate activities of engineering or technical personnel involved in designing, fabricating, modifying, or testing of aircraft or aerospace products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Plan or conduct experimental, environmental, operational, or stress tests on models or prototypes of aircraft or aerospace systems or equipment.Mostly human for now
- 05Diagnose performance problems by reviewing reports or documentation from customers or field engineers or by inspecting malfunctioning or damaged products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Formulate mathematical models or other methods of computer analysis to develop, evaluate, or modify design, according to customer engineering requirements.AI could speed this up a lot
- 07Write technical reports or other documentation, such as handbooks or bulletins, for use by engineering staff, management, or customers.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Maintain records of performance reports for future reference.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Analyze project requests, proposals, or engineering data to determine feasibility, productibility, cost, or production time of aerospace or aeronautical products.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Plan or coordinate investigation and resolution of customers' reports of technical problems with aircraft or aerospace vehicles.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss8%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
57%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 66% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Plan or conduct experimental, environmental, operational, or stress tests on models or prototypes of aircraft or aerospace systems or equipment.