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It's a perfectly respectable word.

Yeats - It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity

Joyce - Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

You have to admit that it's slightly cromulent.

While it may be technically valid, artifice in modern usage is probably most commonly associated with deception & fakery. So, as a job title, I'd say it sounds pretentious and a bit out of touch, like someone who right clicked on the word "engineer" and espoused an adventitious synonym in order to have the earmarks of sagacity.

Artificers are not synonymous with engineers, they are much more synonymous with craftspersons.

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