Can AI Replace Aerospace Engineers in 2026?

Moderate exposure. AI could handle about 77% of today's aerospace engineers tasks by 2036, and there is a 42% chance the number of jobs falls by a fifth or more. AI is likely to take over many tasks outright.

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Timeline

Year2030

Tasks AI can do

42%

Headcount (2025 = 100)

Chance of 20%+ fewer jobs

15% 2030 · 42% 2036

One person could cover, 2036

2.4 roles

Share of today's tasks AI can perform

Headcount index, 2025 = 100 (dashed line)

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Lower-risk jobs that use similar skills

Materials Engineers31% risk by 2036 Electronics Engineers, Except Computer31% risk by 2036 Electrical Engineers31% risk by 2036

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Try an AI tool on one task you'd normally do by hand: "Write technical reports or other documentation, such as handbooks or bulletins, for use by engineering staff, management, or customers".Learn one AI tool well enough to show it in an interview, for: "Plan or coordinate investigation and resolution of customers' reports of technical problems with aircraft or aerospace vehicles".Get visibly better at your human core: "Plan or conduct experimental, environmental, operational, or stress tests on models or prototypes of aircraft or aerospace systems or equipment".Rewrite the top of your CV around judgment, people and decisions, not routine output.Read about a lower-risk move: Materials Engineers.

Lower-risk jobs with similar tasks

Materials Engineers — 31% chance of contraction by 2036
Electronics Engineers, Except Computer — 31% chance of contraction by 2036
Electrical Engineers — 31% chance of contraction by 2036

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Based on 18 O*NET tasks for "Aerospace Engineers" (SOC 17-2011.00). LLM alone: 21% of tasks; with AI tools: 93%. Projections are a model, not official statistics. How we calculate this · Data version 2026-10