Applied AI career paths
3636 Applied AI roles, each with salary, growth outlook, and the career path it belongs to.
Not sure which track fits? Take the 2-minute AI Risk Score.
Showing 36 roles in Applied AI.
- AI Account ExecutiveAI
AI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · $250k · very_high
An AI Account Executive owns the sales motion for AI tooling and platforms.
- AI Application DeveloperAI
Prompt Engineering and AI Application · $145k · very_high · entry
An AI Application Developer builds applications using existing AI APIs without managing models directly.
- AI Customer Success EngineerAI
AI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · $145k · very_high · entry
An AI Customer Success Engineer provides post-sales technical support and adoption guidance for AI implementations.
- AI Data EngineerAI
AI Operations and Reliability · $170k · very_high
An AI Data Engineer designs and operates data pipelines specifically for AI training and serving.
- AI Developer AdvocateAI
AI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · $175k · high
An AI Developer Advocate runs developer relations for AI APIs and platforms.
- AI EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $175k · very_high
An AI Engineer builds production cybersecurity-relevant AI systems integrating LLMs, embeddings, and retrieval pipelines.
- AI Infrastructure EngineerAI
AI Operations and Reliability · $195k · very_high
An AI Infrastructure Engineer manages cloud and compute infrastructure for AI workloads at scale.
- AI Platform EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $195k · high
An AI Platform Engineer builds internal platforms enabling AI development at scale across an organization.
- AI Product LeadAI
AI Product · $245k · high
An AI Product Lead owns cross-functional AI initiative direction and outcomes.
- AI Product ManagerAI
AI Product · $175k · very_high
An AI Product Manager owns AI-powered product features and the roadmap that ships them.
- AI Reliability EngineerAI
AI Operations and Reliability · $185k · very_high
An AI Reliability Engineer ensures production AI systems meet service-level objectives across uptime, latency, and quality.
- AI Research EngineerAI
AI Research · $245k · very_high
An AI Research Engineer bridges research and production, implementing novel techniques in deployable systems.
- AI Research ScientistAI
AI Research · $280k · high
An AI Research Scientist conducts original research in AI capabilities, safety, and alignment.
- AI Solutions ArchitectAI
Prompt Engineering and AI Application · $200k · very_high
An AI Solutions Architect designs AI integrations for enterprise clients across their tech stack.
- AI Solutions EngineerAI
AI Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success · $195k · very_high
An AI Solutions Engineer is the pre-sales technical role for AI products and platforms.
- AI Strategy LeadAI
AI Product · $280k · high
An AI Strategy Lead owns organizational AI strategy and prioritization at the company level.
- AI Systems EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $190k · high
An AI Systems Engineer focuses on inference optimization, model serving infrastructure, and runtime performance.
- Applied Research ScientistAI
AI Research · $260k · very_high
An Applied Research Scientist conducts research with direct production application timelines.
- Computer Vision EngineerAI
ML Engineering · $175k · high
A Computer Vision Engineer specializes in image and video AI applications.
- Conversational AI Product ManagerAI
AI Product · $175k · high
A Conversational AI Product Manager specializes in chatbot and assistant products.
- Edge AI EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $175k · high
An Edge AI Engineer deploys AI on edge devices, mobile, and IoT where latency and power matter.
- Foundation Model ResearcherAI
AI Research · $380k · moderate
A Foundation Model Researcher specializes in large model architecture, training methodology, and scaling.
- Generative AI EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $180k · very_high
A Generative AI Engineer specializes in LLM applications, fine-tuning, and RAG architectures.
- Inference Optimization EngineerAI
AI Operations and Reliability · $200k · very_high
An Inference Optimization Engineer optimizes latency, cost, and throughput for production AI serving.
- ML EngineerAI
ML Engineering · $165k · high
An ML Engineer builds and deploys traditional machine learning models for production use.
- ML Platform EngineerAI
ML Engineering · $185k · high
An ML Platform Engineer builds the infrastructure supporting ML across an organization.
- MLOps EngineerAI
ML Engineering · $170k · very_high
An MLOps Engineer operates ML systems in production with monitoring, deployment automation, and reliability practices.
- Multimodal AI EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $200k · very_high
A Multimodal AI Engineer combines vision, language, audio, and video models into unified applications.
- NLP EngineerAI
ML Engineering · $175k · high
An NLP Engineer specializes in natural language processing and language models.
- Prompt EngineerAI
Prompt Engineering and AI Application · $130k · moderate · entry
A Prompt Engineer designs and optimizes prompts that get the desired behavior out of AI systems.
- Senior AI EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $230k · very_high
A Senior AI Engineer architects multi-agent systems, evaluation frameworks, and AI infrastructure for production deployment.
- Senior AI Product ManagerAI
AI Product · $220k · very_high
A Senior AI Product Manager owns AI product strategy across multiple feature areas.
- Senior ML EngineerAI
ML Engineering · $215k · high
A Senior ML Engineer architects ML platforms and leads model development teams.
- Senior Prompt EngineerAI
Prompt Engineering and AI Application · $180k · moderate
A Senior Prompt Engineer owns prompt strategy across product surfaces and evaluation frameworks.
- Senior Research ScientistAI
AI Research · $360k · high
A Senior Research Scientist leads research direction within an AI lab or organization.
- Staff AI EngineerAI
AI Engineering · $295k · very_high
A Staff AI Engineer leads technical strategy across multiple AI initiatives spanning teams and product surfaces.
Career universe cybersecurity
Bubble size reflects salary. Click to open the guide.