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Automotive Engineers
Develop new or improved designs for vehicle structural members, engines, transmissions, or other vehicle systems, using computer-assisted design technology. Direct building, modification, or testing of vehicle or components.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Conduct or direct system-level automotive testing.Mostly human for now
- 02Provide technical direction to other engineers or engineering support personnel.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Perform failure, variation, or root cause analyses.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Calibrate vehicle systems, including control algorithms or other software systems.AI could speed this up a lot
- 05Design or analyze automobile systems in areas such as aerodynamics, alternate fuels, ergonomics, hybrid power, brakes, transmissions, steering, calibration, safety, or diagnostics.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Prepare or present technical or project status reports.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Conduct research studies to develop new concepts in the field of automotive engineering.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Establish production or quality control standards.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Alter or modify designs to obtain specified functional or operational performance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Research or implement green automotive technologies involving alternative fuels, electric or hybrid cars, or lighter or more fuel-efficient 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
66%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 82% 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.
- Conduct or direct system-level automotive testing.