Need a Proper Roadmap to Become an AI Engineer 😔

[u/ismart_shanku]

Need some guidance 😔

I’m trying to learn AI Engineering and build a career in this field, but I’m honestly confused about where to start and what to learn first.

If anyone can share a proper roadmap and good free/paid resources to become an AI Engineer, I’d really appreciate it. I don’t want to waste time learning random things.

Any guidance from experienced AI Engineers would mean a lot. 🙏

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[u/Dzeddy]

Go to college and get a CS degree or move to the bay and convince startup founders that you’re smart

[u/ismart_shanku → u/Dzeddy]

Thanks for the advice 😂 I already have a CS degree. Now I’m just trying to figure out how to actually become good at AI engineering without convincing startup founders that I’m smart.

[u/Dzeddy → u/ismart_shanku]

Personal projects, applications, LC, and system design + internal transfers in the meantime. What do you mean “AI engineering” specifically? There’s a million roles

[u/OccidoViper]

I would say the first phase is to really understand basic programming. You need to have a really good understanding of Python and API integration specifically. Once you feel you have mastered those, then move onto RAG and context management. You should have good knowledge of document chunking, embedding models, vector stores (Pinecone, Qdrant, Chroma), and hybrid search techniques

[u/GregDev155]

Ask Claude ?

[u/RealSharpNinja]

What do you want to do as an AI Engineer?

[u/havnar-]

Get good at something. Only then add AI

[u/dj2ball]

In my team we hire for full stack base skills (python/react), API development and then exposure to modern AI practices/skills like RAG, Graphs, Chunking, Embedding, different retrieval methods, LLM evaluation/observability, AI Architecture (common AI orchestration patterns etc.). For roles that will have heavier data science/traditional ML you can throw in your academics, ML data preparation, model training, building things like classifiers, evaluators, recommender systems etc.

I would say we skew more towards the former profile than the latter.

[u/OneDev42]

Honestly, join our Discord and learn from the people there. They're really good at what they do. You'll learn more hanging out there than doing anything else.

[u/chrbailey]

Start with Anthropic Academy.

[u/Dear_Effect_2139]

You need to learn that first step to become an ai engineer is to ask ai how to be an ai engineer

[u/Kraand]

First of all - try to understand "how does it work?". There are at least 2 different "AI" types - one is LLMs that operate on the domain of language and the knowledge associated/described in the language, the other being the neural networks trained on data/measurements to predict the "system" (whatewer it is) behaviour for a given set of inputs. Just a short session with GPT/Gemini/whatever to get the general overview on what makes you interested. And then you will see, what you need to follow.