Engineering & Technology
AI Engineer
Builds applications and products powered by artificial intelligence models.
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What this career is
AI engineering applies existing and custom AI models to real product problems, with attention to accuracy, cost, safety and user experience.
- Typical education pathway
- Undergraduate degree in computing, engineering or a quantitative field
What professionals typically do
- Integrate AI models into products and workflows
- Design prompts, pipelines and guardrails
- Measure output quality and failure modes
- Work with engineering and product teams on scope
Typical education pathways
- B.E./B.Tech or BCA in a computing discipline
- Postgraduate specialisation in AI or machine learning
Important skills
- Programming
- Model integration
- Evaluation
- Product thinking
Suitable student interests
- Technology
- Experimentation
- Product building
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