For more than 30 years, the technology sector has enjoyed monumental growth. It now touches practically every industry imaginable.
How can you tap into this growth to fuel your career? You can do more than simply trolling job boards or updating the cover letter for your resume. If you keep your eyes on these top emerging tech careers to watch in 2025 and upskill accordingly, you’ll put yourself on a meteoric path for career growth.
Tech Careers in AI
According to the Swiss School of Business Management in Geneva, artificial intelligence (AI) careers are predicted to top the list of tech careers in 2025. This comes as no surprise since AI is itself an emerging technology that quickly gained a foothold in everything from entertainment to data analysis.
An easy entry point into generative AI is as an AI content reviewer. Content reviewers read and fact-check text and other media created by AI. They also flag hallucinations or potentially dangerous output so as to better train AI systems. AI content reviewers are not required to have a specific level of education. Typically, onboarding includes training and a skills assessment.
On the other end of the spectrum, highly skilled professionals including generative AI engineers, machine learning engineers, and data scientists are needed to train AI models, integrate them with end-user products, and create the next generation of AI technology.
Some more traditional careers, including writing, photography, videography, and graphic design, are pivoting to include artists skilled in synthetic media—creative media produced with AI-powered tools.
Tech Careers in Healthcare
Healthcare has long been a platform for technological innovation, driven by the need for better solutions for illness, aging, and disease. There is thus a wide range of technology-based careers in health.
Telemedicine has seen a huge increase in recent years, with practitioners consulting patients via video conferencing software. In addition to “house calls,” many hospitals use telehealth devices to more efficiently check on hospitalized patients.
Epidemiologists leverage databases and data analysis technologies to monitor existing and emergent diseases, making predictions and precautionary recommendations. In addition to major pandemics like COVID-19, epidemiologists research yearly influenza strains and ongoing conditions of concern like ebola, mpox, and HIV.
Environmental health specialists combine huge medical data sets with environmental data such as pollution, air and water quality, safety statistics, weather patterns, and nutrition. They research connections between the physical environment and disease vectors.
Health policy analysts combine research and data analysis skills with the formulation of health policies. They are tasked with analyzing the results of policies governing medical facilities and generally affecting the health of the populace. They are often in the employ of government, academic, private, or non-profit sectors.
Quantum Computin
In December 2024, Google debuted Willow, a quantum-computing chip purported to solve in five minutes tasks that would take an ordinary computer ten septillion years—that’s a one followed by 25 zeros.
This huge leap in technology has been long-anticipated. Quantum theory arose in the 1920s, with the first quantum computer demonstrated in 1998. Now that the technology is becoming more mainstream, positions such as quantum machine learning scientist, quantum software engineer, and qubit researcher are increasingly viable.
Many existing machine learning or computer science professionals may pivot to this career path following training in quantum mechanics. Others may enter the field from quantum physics applications.
Agricultural Biotechnology
The millennia-old field of farming has gotten a modern facelift. Technicians and engineers now rely heavily on big data and computing models to intensify yields and overcome environmental hurdles.
For example, precision agriculture specialists consolidate data including topographical maps, drainage patterns, soil characteristics, crop yields, and field management practices in order to make data-driven farm management decisions.
Other agricultural careers straddle the border of farming and environmental science by innovating and implementing sustainable practices. Genetic engineers and researchers strive to create crops that can survive in a changing climate. For example, some researchers are breeding hybrid coffee plants that can survive temperatures 10 to 12 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than Arabica coffee plants.
Other specialists focus on cultivating more sustainable food sources, for example, by raising plants or insects in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), or indoor vertical farms. Biotechnology specializations also include cellular agriculture—the practice of culturing viable food items from lab-grown cells—or entomoculture, which specializes in the breeding and rearing of insects.
Tech Careers in Transportation
GM may have shut down its Cruise Robotaxi project in late 2024, but experimental technology with self-driving vehicles is still forging ahead. Systems engineers and remote autonomous vehicle operators will still be needed.
The space tourism industry is also continuing to expand, with its market share expected to increase by more than 2,000 percent by 2032. Aerospace engineers, computer hardware engineers, electronics engineers, and pilots will be indispensable.
Key Takeaways
Some of today’s emerging tech careers revolve around the theoretical and computer sciences. But there are also many hands-on careers outside of Silicon Valley to watch. From healthcare and food production to quantum computing or space travel, the variety of opportunities continues to grow and often surprises us.
