AI Engineer Career Roadmap
A step-by-step guide from beginner to advanced AI engineer.
■ Phase 1: Beginner Core (0–2 months)
• Goal: Be fluent in Python, understand basic maths, and work with data.
• Learn: Python basics, Maths basics, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Seaborn.
• Mini Projects: Budget tracker, Weather data visualizer, Movie ratings analysis.
■ Phase 2: Machine Learning Foundation (2–5 months)
• Goal: Build and evaluate ML models.
• Learn: ML basics, common algorithms, model evaluation, feature engineering.
• Mini Projects: Spam email classifier, House price prediction, Iris classification.
■ Phase 3: Deep Learning & AI Core (5–8 months)
• Goal: Work with neural networks and real AI applications.
• Learn: Neural networks, CNNs, RNNs, TensorFlow/Keras or PyTorch, transfer learning.
• Mini Projects: Digit recognition, Sentiment analysis, Image classifier.
■ Phase 4: Advanced AI & GenAI (8–12 months)
• Goal: Specialize and build real-world AI apps.
• Learn: NLP, transformers, Generative AI, OpenAI API, Hugging Face, LangChain, RAG.
• Mini Projects: Chatbot, AI resume screener, AI summarizer.
■ Phase 5: Deployment, MLOps & Career Building (Ongoing)
• Goal: Make your projects production-ready & job-ready.
• Learn: Git/GitHub, Docker, Streamlit, Flask, FastAPI, AWS/GCP basics, monitoring models.
• Final Portfolio Projects: AI-powered web app, End-to-end ML pipeline, Generative AI tool.
