AI career specializations

Design and ship AI systems end to end.

Engineering & Build covers the hands-on roles that turn models into working products — core AI and machine-learning engineers, LLM, generative-AI and agentic-AI specialists, and the full-stack developers who wire models into applications. If you write the code that trains, fine-tunes, serves or orchestrates models, your roles live here.

Run AI reliably and affordably at scale.

Platform & Ops is the discipline of running AI in production: MLOps and platform engineering, model and LLM reliability, inference and serving systems, agent platforms, data and training operations, cost and FinOps, and the hardware and edge layers underneath. These roles keep models fast, available and economical once they leave the lab.

Push the frontier and prove what works.

Research & Science gathers the roles that advance the state of the art and extract insight from data — AI and ML research scientists, data scientists, and specialists in world models, physical AI and scientific or vertical AI. Expect strong methods, experimentation and, often, publication.

Apply AI to a specific problem space.

Applied AI Domains brings together roles defined by where AI is used rather than how it is built — vision, language, speech, recommendation, search and knowledge graphs, conversational and AI design, and automation and transformation work. These are domain specialists who pair AI technique with real-world context.

Make AI safe, secure and accountable.

Trust & Safety covers the roles that make AI dependable and responsible — AI safety and evaluation, AI security and red-teaming, and governance, ethics and policy. As AI moves into high-stakes settings, these are among the fastest-growing roles in the field.

Turn AI capability into products and outcomes.

Product & Business spans the roles that shape what gets built and why — AI product management, solutions and consulting, and the architects and technical leaders who set direction. Less about training models, more about strategy, delivery and impact.