Engineers managed to attract the attention of thinkers to their profession and become the protagonists of philosophical discourse. This article explores whether the philosophy of engineering can offer any persuasive help toward a definition of the engineer’s ‘essence’, and considers whether a lack of agreement on this definition is really a problem. This study demonstrates the need to involve the context of social theories both in analyzing the prerequisites of the philosophical consideration of the concept ‘engineer’ and in the socially significant reasons for attention to this concept. The novelty of my approach lies in considering the phenomenon of ‘technopreneurship’ within the framework of the philosophy of engineering.