AI Engineer
AI CAREER GUIDE · FDE

AI Engineer

Build AI-powered products using models, APIs, retrieval, agents and production infrastructure.

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In-depth career guide

AI Engineers connect models with software products. The role spans prompting, retrieval, tool use, evaluation, backend engineering and deployment.

Seven-step capability roadmap

  1. 01Programming
  2. 02LLM Basics
  3. 03RAG
  4. 04AI Agents
  5. 05Evaluation
  6. 06Production
  7. 07Portfolio Projects
NEXT STEP

Build one small project a real user can use.

Document the goal, data, evaluation, failures and retrospective. That becomes portfolio evidence.

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