Stage 15 — Engineering & Career

Less technical, more strategic. Where AI engineering as a profession is going, what to build to get hired, and how to stay current in a field that moves every week.

Articles

1. AI engineer roles — applied, research, infra, product
2. Learning roadmap — what to build to get hired
3. Staying current — feeds, papers, communities

MVU

You can:

• Articulate what kind of AI work you want to do
• Identify a 90-day project that demonstrates that role
• Stay updated on the field without drowning in noise

Exercise

Ship something — a side project, a blog post, a fine-tuned model on HuggingFace, a contribution to an open-source agent. Anything public, with your name on it.

Why this stage matters

The technical content of Stages 1–14 is necessary but not sufficient. People who build, write, and ship in public have radically different career trajectories than those who only read.

See also

• All previous stages.