Applied AI · 36 roles
Every Applied AI career path, organized.
Filter by track to focus your search. Each role has the same depth of treatment as DecipherU's cybersecurity career guides: salary intelligence, day in the life, certification mappings, interview process, and AI Disruption Outlook.
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AI Engineer
$175K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 35/100
An AI Engineer builds production cybersecurity-relevant AI systems integrating LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
Senior AI Engineer
$230K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 25/100
A Senior AI Engineer architects multi-agent systems, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure for production deployment.
Staff AI Engineer
$295K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 15/100
A Staff AI Engineer leads technical strategy across multiple AI initiatives spanning teams and product surfaces.
Generative AI Engineer
$180K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 40/100
A Generative AI Engineer specializes in LLM applications, fine-tuning, and RAG architectures.
AI Platform Engineer
$195K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 25/100
An AI Platform Engineer builds internal platforms enabling AI development at scale across an organization.
Edge AI Engineer
$175K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 30/100
An Edge AI Engineer deploys AI on edge devices, mobile, and IoT where latency and power matter.
Multimodal AI Engineer
$200K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 30/100
A Multimodal AI Engineer combines vision, language, audio, and video models into unified applications.
AI Systems Engineer
$190K medianAI Engineering · AI Disruption 25/100
An AI Systems Engineer focuses on inference optimization, model serving infrastructure, and runtime performance.
ML Engineer
$165K medianML Engineering · AI Disruption 45/100
An ML Engineer builds and deploys traditional machine learning models for production use.
Senior ML Engineer
$215K medianML Engineering · AI Disruption 30/100
A Senior ML Engineer architects ML platforms and leads model development teams.
MLOps Engineer
$170K medianML Engineering · AI Disruption 25/100
An MLOps Engineer operates ML systems in production with monitoring, deployment automation, and reliability practices.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: soc analyst
ML Platform Engineer
$185K medianML Engineering · AI Disruption 25/100
An ML Platform Engineer builds the infrastructure supporting ML across an organization.
Computer Vision Engineer
$175K medianML Engineering · AI Disruption 35/100
A Computer Vision Engineer specializes in image and video AI applications.
NLP Engineer
$175K medianML Engineering · AI Disruption 50/100
An NLP Engineer specializes in natural language processing and language models.
AI Research Engineer
$245K medianAI Research · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI Research Engineer bridges research and production, implementing novel techniques in deployable systems.
AI Research Scientist
$280K medianAI Research · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Research Scientist conducts original research in AI capabilities, safety, and alignment.
Senior Research Scientist
$360K medianAI Research · AI Disruption 10/100
A Senior Research Scientist leads research direction within an AI lab or organization.
Applied Research Scientist
$260K medianAI Research · AI Disruption 15/100
An Applied Research Scientist conducts research with direct production application timelines.
Foundation Model Researcher
$380K medianAI Research · AI Disruption 5/100
A Foundation Model Researcher specializes in large model architecture, training methodology, and scaling.
AI Product Manager
$175K medianAI Product · AI Disruption 30/100
An AI Product Manager owns AI-powered product features and the roadmap that ships them.
Senior AI Product Manager
$220K medianAI Product · AI Disruption 20/100
A Senior AI Product Manager owns AI product strategy across multiple feature areas.
AI Product Lead
$245K medianAI Product · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Product Lead owns cross-functional AI initiative direction and outcomes.
Conversational AI Product Manager
$175K medianAI Product · AI Disruption 35/100
A Conversational AI Product Manager specializes in chatbot and assistant products.
AI Strategy Lead
$280K medianAI Product · AI Disruption 15/100
An AI Strategy Lead owns organizational AI strategy and prioritization at the company level.
AI Reliability Engineer
$185K medianAI Operations and Reliability · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI Reliability Engineer ensures production AI systems meet service-level objectives across uptime, latency, and quality.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: soc analyst
AI Infrastructure Engineer
$195K medianAI Operations and Reliability · AI Disruption 20/100
An AI Infrastructure Engineer manages cloud and compute infrastructure for AI workloads at scale.
Inference Optimization Engineer
$200K medianAI Operations and Reliability · AI Disruption 15/100
An Inference Optimization Engineer optimizes latency, cost, and throughput for production AI serving.
AI Data Engineer
$170K medianAI Operations and Reliability · AI Disruption 30/100
An AI Data Engineer designs and operates data pipelines specifically for AI training and serving.
Prompt Engineer
$130K medianPrompt Engineering and AI Application · AI Disruption 70/100
A Prompt Engineer designs and optimizes prompts that get the desired behavior out of AI systems.
Senior Prompt Engineer
$180K medianPrompt Engineering and AI Application · AI Disruption 55/100
A Senior Prompt Engineer owns prompt strategy across product surfaces and evaluation frameworks.
AI Application Developer
$145K medianPrompt Engineering and AI Application · AI Disruption 45/100
An AI Application Developer builds applications using existing AI APIs without managing models directly.
AI Solutions Architect
$200K medianPrompt Engineering and AI Application · AI Disruption 25/100
An AI Solutions Architect designs AI integrations for enterprise clients across their tech stack.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: security architect
AI Solutions Engineer
$195K medianAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · AI Disruption 30/100
An AI Solutions Engineer is the pre-sales technical role for AI products and platforms.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: cybersecurity sales engineer
AI Account Executive
$250K medianAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · AI Disruption 35/100
An AI Account Executive owns the sales motion for AI tooling and platforms.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: cybersecurity account executive
AI Customer Success Engineer
$145K medianAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · AI Disruption 40/100
An AI Customer Success Engineer provides post-sales technical support and adoption guidance for AI implementations.
↔ Cybersecurity counterpart: cybersecurity customer success manager
AI Developer Advocate
$175K medianAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · AI Disruption 35/100
An AI Developer Advocate runs developer relations for AI APIs and platforms.