As of June 2026, Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers has an AI-exposure score of 60/100 (Elevated exposure) on the AI-Safe Careers index, blending O*NET tasks, the Anthropic Economic Index, the Penn/OpenAI study, and BLS data. This is an estimate of task exposure, not a prediction of job loss.
Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers
More exposed than 65% of the roles we track. Median pay ~US$171,270. About 14,500 projected openings a year (BLS 2024–34 — growth plus replacement).
Pay & demand figures are US medians (BLS, in USD) — your local figures will differ. Your exposure score applies broadly.
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Your tasks, by AI exposure
- Oversee biodiesel/biofuels prototyping or development projects.
- Analyze data from biofuels studies, such as fluid dynamics, water treatments, or solvent extraction and recovery processes.
- Develop methods to recover ethanol or other fuels from complex bioreactor liquid and gas streams.
- Develop separation processes to recover biofuels.
- Develop methods to estimate the efficiency of biomass pretreatments.
- Develop lab scale models of industrial scale processes, such as fermentation.
- Prepare biofuels research and development reports for senior management or technical professionals.
- Conduct experiments on biomass or pretreatment technologies.
- Conduct experiments to test new or alternate feedstock fermentation processes.
- Perform protein functional analysis and engineering for processing of feedstock and creation of biofuels.
- Prepare, or oversee the preparation of, experimental plans for biofuels research or development.
- Propose new biofuels products, processes, technologies or applications based on findings from applied biofuels or biomass research projects.
- Provide technical or scientific guidance to technical staff in the conduct of biofuels research or development.
- Develop computational tools or approaches to improve biofuels research and development activities.
- Design chemical conversion processes, such as etherification, esterification, interesterification, transesterification, distillation, hydrogenation, oxidation or reduction of fats and oils, and vegetable oil refining.
- Design or execute solvent or product recovery experiments in laboratory or field settings.
- Conduct research to breed or develop energy crops with improved biomass yield, environmental adaptability, pest resistance, production efficiency, bioprocessing characteristics, or reduced environmental impacts.
- Design or conduct applied biodiesel or biofuels research projects on topics, such as transport, thermodynamics, mixing, filtration, distillation, fermentation, extraction, and separation.
No durable tasks identified for this role — its real, individually-assessed tasks consistently read as augmentable (89%).
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Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers — median pay by US state (BLS OEWS, USD)
Median annual wage, in USD. US national: US$171,270. More states are being added.