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AI Career Roadmaps

The roles the AI wave actually created — mapped like circuits. Whether you're switching careers or leveling up, each roadmap tells you what to study, what to build, and how to position your profile — stage by stage, checkpoint by checkpoint. Every node links into the free courses that teach the skill.

14 roles336 roadmap nodessalary data · 2026free · no signup
01 · Engineeringhot
Forward Deployed Engineer
Ship frontier AI on real enterprise data — the engineer the customer actually meets.
$160k – $350k+
02 · Engineeringhot
Vibe Coder
Direct AI agents that write the code. You own the spec, the taste, and the ship button.
$120k – $260k+
03 · Engineeringnew
AI Transformation Engineer
Turn a normal company into an AI company from the inside — one measured workflow at a time.
$130k – $240k+
04 · Researchemerging
Fine-tuning Specialist
Make small models beat big ones on the tasks that matter — data, LoRA, DPO, and honest evals.
$160k – $340k+
05 · Productnew
Outbound Product Manager (AI)
The PM who faces the market: launches, developer feedback, and demos that make the API make sense.
$150k – $300k+
06 · Researchhot
Member of Technical Staff
The flat title behind every frontier lab — and the highest engineering bar in the industry.
$300k – $850k+
07 · Engineering
Prompt Engineer
The 2023 gold-rush title grew up: fewer dedicated roles, but the skill now lives inside every AI job.
$120k – $250k
08 · Engineeringhot
Agent Engineer
The most-hired AI engineering role of 2026. You build the systems that let models actually do things.
$160k – $350k+
09 · Engineeringemerging
AI Evals Engineer
Every serious AI product now employs someone to answer one question: is it actually good?
$150k – $300k
10 · Engineering
AI Solutions Architect
You design the AI systems enterprises actually ship — and talk them past the security review.
$170k – $320k+ OTE
11 · Producthot
AI Product Manager
Ships products where the core feature is a model — and owns the messy gap between demo and dependable.
$160k – $350k+
12 · Go-to-market
AI DevRel Engineer
Half engineer, half publisher: you make an AI platform learnable — and developers choose platforms they can learn.
$140k – $280k+
13 · Engineeringhot
AI Infrastructure Engineer
Makes models fast, cheap, and always up — the systems engineering behind every token served.
$180k – $500k+
14 · Researchemerging
AI Red Teamer
Breaks AI systems on purpose — under authorization — so attackers can't, then engineers the defenses.
$160k – $400k+
How to use these roadmaps

Each roadmap is five stages, novice to hired. Solid nodes are core skills, dashed nodes are electives, and the highlighted node in every stage is a checkpoint — a concrete artifact you build and can show a hiring manager. Don't collect certificates; collect checkpoints. Every role page also ships a portfolio plan (the projects that get this role hired) and a profile playbook — headline, resume bullets to earn, where to be visible, and what the interviews actually test.

If you want the skills path rather than the role path, start with the course roadmap — five free courses, one sequence from first prompt to production AI systems. Most roles here assume Course 01 as the floor; the role pages tell you which of the other courses matter for that path.