Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.

“Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.” is a task performed by Blockchain Engineers. Among the occupation's 17 rated tasks, workers place it 7th by importance (#11 most important).

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Communicate with others about specifications or project details. in Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E1. Direct exposure — a language model could plausibly cut the time to do this task by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 1.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• 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.
• 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.

See all tasks on the Blockchain Engineers page.

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
• “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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  title  = {Discuss data needs with engineers, product managers, or data scientists to identify blockchain requirements.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-21816}
}