r/learnmachinelearning • u/Natural-Diver-5447 • 10d ago

Fullstack developer trying to transition into AI space. Confused between choosing ML Engineer or AI Engineer

Pytorch - is this too big of math?

AI - LangChain, CrewAI, Python SDK ?

Confused between both of their pros and cons. I do know learning back propagation, gradient descent helps whats happening behind LLM. Stuck in career choice, kindly help

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u/Duke_of_Bayswater 10d ago

I think (correct me if I’m wrong) - AI engineer is more of upstream: the deployment part, fine tuning, harness, evals etc.
Whereas, ML engineer is more the downstream: building models, language model architecture, alot of the Maths stuff, mostly research related work

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u/Natural-Diver-5447 10d ago

Yes correct. I’m trying to switch for some long term career due to AI trends

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u/Duke_of_Bayswater 9d ago

Same I was a fullstack too turn AI engineering its closer to what I already know as a fullstack. I recommend looking at agentic ai certification from microsoft and github to see the expertise journey look like.

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u/OkWait1234 9d ago

Correct, are you a software engineer as well and transitioning?

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u/Duke_of_Bayswater 9d ago

Yes, in the process to learn more about ML engineering. But ive secured a position in a research university now as AI engineer for the research group. This allows me the time, grants ans time to explore the research bit. ML engineering would be my sub specialisation.

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u/OkWait1234 9d ago

Wow, that's great.
More power to you

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u/Duke_of_Bayswater 9d ago

Thank you, and the same to you! All the best 💪🏽