I believe inference engineering is already an important emerging role which will continue to grow.

In fact today, CNCF at Kubecon announced a K8s inference engineering certification - https://cloudnativenow.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-amer...

Our field guide helps folks get started in this area and the hope is that will be a valuable, practical resource for folks in their careers and work, as well as a valuable resource for folks using agents to help stand up their inference.