Blockchain Engineers

AI & job outlook

What today's research says about this occupation's exposure to AI, how AI is actually being used in it, and where employment is headed. These are positions within published studies — measures of exposure and usage, not predictions that this job will disappear.

Exposure to current AI

Each study uses its own scale, so the raw scores are not comparable across rows — the percentile (this job's rank among all U.S. occupations with data) is the comparable figure, and sizes the bars.

OpenAI's exposure study scores tasks three ways: with a language model alone (α 0.9), with simple added tooling (β 1.0), and including AI-powered software (γ 1.0). Higher means more of the job's tasks could be done at least twice as fast — not that they will be automated away.

Job outlook

Independent U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projection for 2024–2034 — a labor-market forecast, not an AI-impact forecast.

“Annual openings” counts new jobs plus replacements for workers who leave the occupation, so it can be large even when growth is modest.

Tasks

All 17 tasks O*NET lists for this occupation, ordered by importance. Each links to its own page with AI-exposure and observed-use detail.

• Assess blockchain threats, such as untested code and unprotected keys.
• Automate the deployment of software updates over geographically distributed network nodes.
• Design and deploy blockchain design patterns to make transactions secure, transparent, and immutable.
• Design and develop blockchain technologies for industries such as finance and music.
• Design and implement dashboard and data visualizations to meet customer reporting needs.
• Design and implement data repositories to integrate data.
• Design and verify cryptographic protocols to protect private information.
• Determine specifications for, or implement, logging.
• Develop a maintainable code base using object-oriented design principles, practices, or patterns.
• Discuss and plan systems with solution architects, system engineers, or cybersecurity experts to meet customer requirements.
• Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.
• Evaluate blockchain processes or risks based on security assessments or control matrix reviews.
• Evaluate new blockchain technologies and vendor products.
• Implement catastrophic failure handlers to identify security breaches and prevent serious damage.
• Run infrastructure tests to examine the behavior of large peer-to-peer networks.
• Test the security and performance of blockchain infrastructures.
• Update client and server applications responsible for integration and business logic.

Work activities

• Analyze security of systems, network, or data.
• Write computer programming code.
• Design integrated computer systems.
• Implement security measures for computer or information systems.
• Design software applications.
• Install computer software.
• Create databases to store electronic data.
• Develop computer or information security policies or procedures.
• Develop procedures for data management.
• Discuss design or technical features of products or services with technical personnel.
• Evaluate utility of software or hardware technologies.
• Evaluate new technologies or methods.
• Test computer system operations to ensure proper functioning.
• Maintain computer equipment or software.

Skills in demand

Skills employers ask for in job postings for this occupation (Lightcast), with whether each is a common or specialized skill.

• TypeScript Specialized Skill
• PostgreSQL Specialized Skill
• Node.js Specialized Skill
• MongoDB Specialized Skill
• Kubernetes Specialized Skill
• Spring Framework Specialized Skill
• Spring Boot Specialized Skill
• NoSQL Specialized Skill
• MySQL Specialized Skill
• Linux Specialized Skill
• Github Specialized Skill
• Atlassian Confluence Specialized Skill
• Apache Kafka Specialized Skill
• RESTful API Specialized Skill
• RabbitMQ Specialized Skill
• Kotlin Specialized Skill
• Project Management Software Specialized Skill

Tools & technology

Showing the top 40 of 50.

How to get in

Job zone

Zone 4 — Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Typical entry-level education

Bachelor's degree · BLS, the typical path — not a requirement

Related experience

A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Preparation level

SVP (7.0 to < 8.0) — total schooling plus on-the-job experience.

What to study: Biological and Biomedical Sciences , Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services , Health Professions and Related Programs , Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services , Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies , Physical Sciences . Fields of study crosswalked to this occupation (NCES CIP–SOC), not a requirement.

Interests & work styles

The interests and personal qualities O*NET associates with people who do this work.

Work styles

Interest areas

Career interests (Holland / RIASEC)

Wages & employment

U.S. · annual wages (BLS OEWS)

Wages and employment are reported by BLS for the broader occupation group this specialty belongs to (SOC 15-1299), not for the specialty alone.

Industries that employ this occupation

Where these workers are employed, by number of jobs (national, BLS OEWS). Pay shown is the occupation's national median, not industry-specific.

Where this work is most concentrated

Industries where this occupation is far more common than in the economy as a whole. The location quotient is how many times more concentrated it is here (a value of 5 means five times its economy-wide share).

Related occupations

Part of the Digital Technology and Public Service & Safety career clusters.

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Side-by-side comparisons place two occupations’ pay, preparation, skills, and AI exposure on the same page — same data, same scale, no forecast.

What you can do with this

Options the data surfaces for Blockchain Engineers — not advice or a forecast. Each is a real cross-link you can follow into the evidence.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• BLS Employment Projections 2024–2034 U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai Microsoft Research
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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