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AI / ML Engineer
AI/ML engineering is experiencing high demand as organizations build AI systems. Practitioners who work at the frontier of AI capability are benefiting from, not threatened by, AI progress.
falling risk (-3 this quarter)
A
22/100
2032+
$168K/yr
Median Salary
18K
Jobs at Risk
20%
Automation Est.
DRI HISTORY
FACTOR BREAKDOWN
RISING SKILLS
LLM fine-tuning
AI systems architecture
Model evaluation and safety
DECLINING SKILLS
Manual hyperparameter tuning
Basic ML pipeline building
TRANSITION PATHS
1
AI Research Scientist
82% skill overlap
16
DRI
2
AI Architect
80% skill overlap
18
DRI
3
Head of AI
72% skill overlap
14
DRI
KEY EVENTS
2025-01
AI engineering job postings up 85% year-over-year as enterprises deploy AI at scale
AI TOOLS DRIVING DISPLACEMENT
PyTorchHugging FaceLangChainWeights & Biases
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