Applied AI vertical
Applied AI career intelligence, at practitioner depth.
DecipherU treats Applied AI as a discipline. 36 AI roles across 9 tracks, salary intelligence, AI Disruption Outlook on every role, and explicit bridges to the cybersecurity vertical where the two fields are converging. Built by a learning scientist completing M.S. Applied AI specializing in Cybersecurity at Northeastern.
Nine tracks. 36 roles. One knowledge graph.
8 roles
AI Engineering
5 roles
AI Research
5 roles
AI Product
4 roles
AI Operations and Reliability
0 roles
AI Safety and Alignment
0 roles
AI Governance, Ethics, and Risk
4 roles
Prompt Engineering and AI Application
4 roles
AI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success
Where most people start.
AI Engineer
$175KAn AI Engineer builds production cybersecurity-relevant AI systems integrating LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
Senior AI Engineer
$230KA Senior AI Engineer architects multi-agent systems, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure for production deployment.
ML Engineer
$165KAn ML Engineer builds and deploys traditional machine learning models for production use.
AI Product Manager
$175KAn AI Product Manager owns AI-powered product features and the roadmap that ships them.
Prompt Engineer
$130KA Prompt Engineer designs and optimizes prompts that get the desired behavior out of AI systems.
AI Solutions Architect
$200KAn AI Solutions Architect designs AI integrations for enterprise clients across their tech stack.
Bridge to cybersecurity
The two verticals share more than they look like they share.
SOC analysts and AI Reliability Engineers apply the same operational discipline. Threat hunters and AI red teamers practice the same adversarial mindset. GRC analysts and AI Governance Leads work the same compliance machinery. DecipherU shows the bridges explicitly so practitioners on either side can see the path across.
Explore the cybersecurity vertical →Frequently asked Applied AI questions
What is the DecipherU Applied AI vertical?
DecipherU's Applied AI vertical treats Applied AI as a discipline with the same depth as cybersecurity: 45 career guides, 18 certification deep-dives, 5 paid courses, an assessment battery, an intelligence feed, AI Decipher Files for major incidents, and Range training scenarios. It is built equivalent to the cybersecurity vertical, not as a tag on it.
How does DecipherU's Applied AI vertical differ from data science career sites?
Data science career sites (DataCamp, Dataquest) focus on data analysis pathways. ML platform sites focus on technical training. General career sites cover AI as a category among many. DecipherU treats Applied AI at practitioner depth with research-grounded methodology and explicit cross-vertical bridges to cybersecurity, where the two disciplines are converging.
Who built the DecipherU Applied AI vertical?
Julian Calvo, founder of DecipherU. He holds an Ed.D. in Learning Sciences and an MBA in Marketing, both from Northeastern University, and is completing his M.S. in Applied AI specializing in Cybersecurity, also at Northeastern. The specialization institutionally recognizes that AI and cybersecurity are converging into a single discipline.
Is the Applied AI vertical included in the existing DecipherU subscription?
Yes. The Operator subscription at $129 per month includes both the cybersecurity vertical and the Applied AI vertical. There is no separate AI-only or cybersecurity-only tier. Single subscription covers all DecipherU verticals current and future.
What roles does the Applied AI vertical cover?
36 Applied AI foundation roles across 7 tracks: AI Engineering, ML Engineering, AI Research, AI Product, AI Operations and Reliability, Prompt Engineering and AI Application, and AI Sales and Customer Success. AI Safety, AI Governance, AI Red Team, and AI Evaluation roles live in the Cybersecurity for AI convergence area at /cyber-for-ai/. Each role has the same depth of treatment as cybersecurity career guides on the platform.