How to Become an AI Engineer Quickly (Skills, Projects, Salary) | Towards data science

is the new “hot” role in the tech scene, and many people are desperate to get this job.

I see so many posts online about how to become an AI engineer in a few months.

To be clear, anyone who tells you that you can become an AI engineer in six months is selling you a dream.

The reality is that it will take longer, but that doesn’t mean you can’t try to speed up the process.

If you’re new here, I’m Egor. I work as a machine learning engineer and am also a career coach for people working on data, AI and machine learning.

I’ve seen firsthand what works and what is just a waste of time.

Let’s get started!

Let’s clarify exactly what an AI engineer is as there is a lot of confusion online.

I have a separate article explaining the key differences, but in short an AI engineer is a software developer who specializes in the use and integration of basic GenAI models such as Claude, GPT, BERT and others.

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