Applied AI career paths

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36 Applied AI roles, each with salary, growth outlook, and the career path it belongs to.

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  • AI Account ExecutiveAn AI Account Executive owns the sales motion for AI tooling and platforms.AIAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success$250kvery_high
  • AI Application DeveloperAn AI Application Developer builds applications using existing AI APIs without managing models directly.EntryAIPrompt Engineering and AI Application$145kvery_high
  • AI Customer Success EngineerAn AI Customer Success Engineer provides post-sales technical support and adoption guidance for AI implementations.EntryAIAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success$145kvery_high
  • AI Data EngineerAn AI Data Engineer designs and operates data pipelines specifically for AI training and serving.AIAI Operations and Reliability$170kvery_high
  • AI Developer AdvocateAn AI Developer Advocate runs developer relations for AI APIs and platforms.AIAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success$175khigh
  • AI EngineerAn AI Engineer builds production cybersecurity-relevant AI systems integrating LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.AIAI Engineering$175kvery_high
  • AI Infrastructure EngineerAn AI Infrastructure Engineer manages cloud and compute infrastructure for AI workloads at scale.AIAI Operations and Reliability$195kvery_high
  • AI Platform EngineerAn AI Platform Engineer builds internal platforms enabling AI development at scale across an organization.AIAI Engineering$195khigh
  • AI Product LeadAn AI Product Lead owns cross-functional AI initiative direction and outcomes.AIAI Product$245khigh
  • AI Product ManagerAn AI Product Manager owns AI-powered product features and the roadmap that ships them.AIAI Product$175kvery_high
  • AI Reliability EngineerAn AI Reliability Engineer ensures production AI systems meet service-level objectives across uptime, latency, and quality.AIAI Operations and Reliability$185kvery_high
  • AI Research EngineerAn AI Research Engineer bridges research and production, implementing novel techniques in deployable systems.AIAI Research$245kvery_high
  • AI Research ScientistAn AI Research Scientist conducts original research in AI capabilities, safety, and alignment.AIAI Research$280khigh
  • AI Solutions ArchitectAn AI Solutions Architect designs AI integrations for enterprise clients across their tech stack.AIPrompt Engineering and AI Application$200kvery_high
  • AI Solutions EngineerAn AI Solutions Engineer is the pre-sales technical role for AI products and platforms.AIAI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success$195kvery_high
  • AI Strategy LeadAn AI Strategy Lead owns organizational AI strategy and prioritization at the company level.AIAI Product$280khigh
  • AI Systems EngineerAn AI Systems Engineer focuses on inference optimization, model serving infrastructure, and runtime performance.AIAI Engineering$190khigh
  • Applied Research ScientistAn Applied Research Scientist conducts research with direct production application timelines.AIAI Research$260kvery_high
  • Computer Vision EngineerA Computer Vision Engineer specializes in image and video AI applications.AIML Engineering$175khigh
  • Conversational AI Product ManagerA Conversational AI Product Manager specializes in chatbot and assistant products.AIAI Product$175khigh
  • Edge AI EngineerAn Edge AI Engineer deploys AI on edge devices, mobile, and IoT where latency and power matter.AIAI Engineering$175khigh
  • Foundation Model ResearcherA Foundation Model Researcher specializes in large model architecture, training methodology, and scaling.AIAI Research$380kmoderate
  • Generative AI EngineerA Generative AI Engineer specializes in LLM applications, fine-tuning, and RAG architectures.AIAI Engineering$180kvery_high
  • Inference Optimization EngineerAn Inference Optimization Engineer optimizes latency, cost, and throughput for production AI serving.AIAI Operations and Reliability$200kvery_high
  • ML EngineerAn ML Engineer builds and deploys traditional machine learning models for production use.AIML Engineering$165khigh
  • ML Platform EngineerAn ML Platform Engineer builds the infrastructure supporting ML across an organization.AIML Engineering$185khigh
  • MLOps EngineerAn MLOps Engineer operates ML systems in production with monitoring, deployment automation, and reliability practices.AIML Engineering$170kvery_high
  • Multimodal AI EngineerA Multimodal AI Engineer combines vision, language, audio, and video models into unified applications.AIAI Engineering$200kvery_high
  • NLP EngineerAn NLP Engineer specializes in natural language processing and language models.AIML Engineering$175khigh
  • Prompt EngineerA Prompt Engineer designs and optimizes prompts that get the desired behavior out of AI systems.EntryAIPrompt Engineering and AI Application$130kmoderate
  • Senior AI EngineerA Senior AI Engineer architects multi-agent systems, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure for production deployment.AIAI Engineering$230kvery_high
  • Senior AI Product ManagerA Senior AI Product Manager owns AI product strategy across multiple feature areas.AIAI Product$220kvery_high
  • Senior ML EngineerA Senior ML Engineer architects ML platforms and leads model development teams.AIML Engineering$215khigh
  • Senior Prompt EngineerA Senior Prompt Engineer owns prompt strategy across product surfaces and evaluation frameworks.AIPrompt Engineering and AI Application$180kmoderate
  • Senior Research ScientistA Senior Research Scientist leads research direction within an AI lab or organization.AIAI Research$360khigh
  • Staff AI EngineerA Staff AI Engineer leads technical strategy across multiple AI initiatives spanning teams and product surfaces.AIAI Engineering$295kvery_high

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