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ROADMAP to Become an AI Engineer in 2026 (Beginner to Pro) — Transcript

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  1. 0:00Recently openai launched their chart
  2. 0:01GPT6 or Astra model and everywhere on
  3. 0:04the internet everyone is talking about
  4. 0:05that AGI is here. AGI fullform
  5. 0:08artificial general intelligence and it
  6. 0:10is actually intelligent as a general
  7. 0:13person. But the question that everyone
  8. 0:15is asking is doing AI engineering right
  9. 0:18now is a good choice or not? And
  10. 0:19honestly, this is the best time to
  11. 0:21become an AI engineer because at this
  12. 0:23moment AI engineering is moving so fast
  13. 0:26and if you are at the top tier, if you
  14. 0:28are actually learning all the skills
  15. 0:29that are required to become an AI
  16. 0:31engineer, then companies are dying to
  17. 0:34hire you. And every company in India, in
  18. 0:37GCC, in US is trying to hire an AI
  19. 0:40engineer because everyone wants to
  20. 0:42integrate AI solutions into their
  21. 0:43workflows. And if you don't know, I'm
  22. 0:45Nishant. I averaged $250 US for my AI
  23. 0:48startup and in that startup my
  24. 0:50co-founder is an AI engineer. He used to
  25. 0:52work at midlife and his CTC was around
  26. 0:5550 lakh rupees. I've also tried to
  27. 0:57answer all the questions that comes to
  28. 0:59your mind when you are trying to
  29. 1:00research for AI engineering roles and
  30. 1:02when you are trying to research what you
  31. 1:03want to do and you don't need to be a
  32. 1:05math genius to become an AI engineer.
  33. 1:07And the interesting part is the
  34. 1:09opportunity is not limited to people who
  35. 1:11are doing research or PhD. The problem
  36. 1:13is most people don't know where they
  37. 1:14have to start. They just think AI
  38. 1:16engineering is hard mathematics,
  39. 1:18research papers or they need a PhD and
  40. 1:21you don't. In this video, we'll be
  41. 1:23talking about what are the things you
  42. 1:24need to learn to go from a beginner to a
  43. 1:26job ready AI engineer. It also helps you
  44. 1:29improve your ATS score for your resume,
  45. 1:31create a cover letter, optimize your
  46. 1:32LinkedIn profile and everything can be
  47. 1:34done in few clicks. I would highly
  48. 1:36recommend you to check out hackats.com.
  49. 1:38We are adding so many features [music]
  50. 1:39every single day so that we can make
  51. 1:41your job finding process easy. Hi guys,
  52. 1:43I'm Nishan Zahar. Welcome back to the
  53. 1:44channel. I'm not going to waste time by
  54. 1:46giving my introduction. You can check
  55. 1:47out that anywhere. Let's just start with
  56. 1:50the road map. First, we need to
  57. 1:51understand what an AI engineer actually
  58. 1:53does because most people don't actually
  59. 1:55know what an AI engineer does. They get
  60. 1:57confused between a machine learning
  61. 1:58engineer and an AI engineer. By looking
  62. 2:00at the name, people think that AI
  63. 2:02engineers are responsible for creating
  64. 2:04models or training models. But that part
  65. 2:06is actually closer to a machine learning
  66. 2:08engineer or a researcher. What an AI
  67. 2:11engineer does is they take the models
  68. 2:12that are already there. They use them to
  69. 2:14create real world solutions for problems
  70. 2:16that exist around us. That means they
  71. 2:18don't just play around with the model.
  72. 2:20They actually create build applications,
  73. 2:23publish them, deploy them and actual
  74. 2:26users use them. And you need software
  75. 2:28engineering fundamentals because
  76. 2:32then you'll not be able to integrate AI
  77. 2:34properly. AI should not feel like a
  78. 2:36feature that you have added on top of it
  79. 2:37when you are creating any AI
  80. 2:38application. It should be integrated in
  81. 2:41the workflow so that the user doesn't
  82. 2:43even know that AI was used or there is
  83. 2:45AI inside the product. So let's start
  84. 2:47with the first layer which is software
  85. 2:48engineering fundamentals that you need
  86. 2:50to learn. Now because AI engineers don't
  87. 2:52just have to use LLMs they actually have
  88. 2:54to build real world software. You need
  89. 2:56to learn basics of software engineering
  90. 2:58as well. You don't have to go in depth.
  91. 3:00First you need to learn a programming
  92. 3:01language. Whenever you do anything
  93. 3:03technical, you need to know a
  94. 3:04programming language for sure. In this
  95. 3:06case, we are going to learn Python. The
  96. 3:07most popular libraries and frameworks
  97. 3:09that we use in machine learning are in
  98. 3:11Python. And that is why Python should be
  99. 3:13your primary language. I've already
  100. 3:15created a dedicated video on how you
  101. 3:17should learn Python. What is the road
  102. 3:18map for that? I won't spend time on
  103. 3:20that. There the video is in the I
  104. 3:21button. You can definitely check that
  105. 3:22out. Second thing is API. API is
  106. 3:25application programming interface. That
  107. 3:27means how two softwares or two services
  108. 3:29actually interact with each other. That
  109. 3:31is what an API is. You need to
  110. 3:33understand how these APIs are created,
  111. 3:35how you can create this, how you can
  112. 3:36interact with the APIs and how you
  113. 3:39actually use them in the production
  114. 3:40environment. This is also important for
  115. 3:42an AI engineer because you have to use
  116. 3:44the AI model that you use in your
  117. 3:47products through APIs. Third thing is
  118. 3:49going to be git, GitHub and basic cloud.
  119. 3:51Get GitHub because you are going to work
  120. 3:53in an environment with other engineers
  121. 3:55as well. So you need to learn basics of
  122. 3:57Git and GitHub. It is used for version
  123. 3:59control. Next is going to be cloud
  124. 4:00because you are going to deploy your
  125. 4:03application finally on some cloud
  126. 4:05server. That's why you need to learn
  127. 4:06cloud as well. So I've already created a
  128. 4:08dedicated road map for Python. You can
  129. 4:11definitely check that out. All the
  130. 4:12resources are mentioned there. I'll also
  131. 4:13mention them in the doc. Second, if you
  132. 4:15want to learn about git, you can check
  133. 4:17out this video by free code camp. And
  134. 4:19even if you want to learn about APIs,
  135. 4:21this is also another video by free code
  136. 4:24camp on APIs that you can check out.
  137. 4:25There is a 80/20 rule. If you want to
  138. 4:27learn 80% of the things in a programming
  139. 4:29language, you just need 20% of the time.
  140. 4:31So if you want to learn Python and all
  141. 4:33these things, it should not take you
  142. 4:35more than 3 to 4 weeks if you have some
  143. 4:37background in software engineering. Even
  144. 4:39if you don't have, it won't take you
  145. 4:40more than 6 weeks. Now comes the layer
  146. 4:42two which is going to be AI and LM
  147. 4:44fundamentals. The most important part
  148. 4:46here is that you don't need to
  149. 4:48understand deep mathematics. You don't
  150. 4:50need to understand how the actual
  151. 4:52transformers or your attention matrices
  152. 4:55work. You just need to have the basic
  153. 4:57idea on how these things are built. No
  154. 5:00one is going to ask you to actually use
  155. 5:02them or do the maths behind them. That
  156. 5:04level of understanding is more relevant
  157. 5:06for researchers or ML engineers. You
  158. 5:08just need to understand the practical
  159. 5:09intuition behind on how LMS actually
  160. 5:11work. And at the basic level, these are
  161. 5:13the three things that you need to know.
  162. 5:15The first is tokens. What do models do?
  163. 5:17They break the text that you are talking
  164. 5:18about into multiple set of tokens. And
  165. 5:21that is why the length of the prompt
  166. 5:22that you are giving actually matters
  167. 5:24when you're calculating the cost. Second
  168. 5:25is going to be temperature. It controls
  169. 5:27how random or predictable your output is
  170. 5:29going to be. If you change the
  171. 5:30temperature, it is possible that the
  172. 5:32output for the same prompt can be
  173. 5:34different if you increase the
  174. 5:35temperature, decrease the temperature or
  175. 5:37you do anything with that. And third is
  176. 5:38going to be knowing which model is good
  177. 5:40for what. And this can only be done when
  178. 5:42you actually experiment with things. And
  179. 5:43you won't be able to understand all this
  180. 5:45by only watching some tutorials or
  181. 5:47actually just reading articles. You need
  182. 5:49to get your hands dirty. Pick an AI
  183. 5:51model, go to charg or claude and
  184. 5:54actually run the same prompt with
  185. 5:55different temperatures. You can go to
  186. 5:56platform.openai.com and you will find
  187. 5:59all these settings there. Also, there is
  188. 6:01an amazing video by Andre Karpathi on
  189. 6:02intro to large language models. This is
  190. 6:05one of the best videos that you can find
  191. 6:07on how LMS actually work. Do check it
  192. 6:09out. Do watch that full. Second, if you
  193. 6:11want to understand how tokens actually
  194. 6:12work and how text is broken down into
  195. 6:14context, what you can do is you can go
  196. 6:16to this website which is
  197. 6:16platform.opi.com/ openi.com/to
  198. 6:19tokenizer. Whatever prompt you add, it
  199. 6:21will show you how and what are the exact
  200. 6:24tokens and how your prompt is being
  201. 6:26divided into multiple tokens. This layer
  202. 6:28is relatively small. You should not take
  203. 6:29more than 1 to two weeks in finishing
  204. 6:31this. Layer three is going to be core AI
  205. 6:33implementation. Once your basics are
  206. 6:34done, now you need to actually build
  207. 6:37stuff. And here there are two concepts
  208. 6:39which are absolutely important for you.
  209. 6:41The first one is prompting. It's not
  210. 6:42just about asking the smart questions.
  211. 6:44It's about giving the model clear
  212. 6:46instructions. so that you get a
  213. 6:47predictable and reliable output. There
  214. 6:50are three things in this. The first one
  215. 6:51is context window. So what do you mean
  216. 6:53by context window? So context window is
  217. 6:55the amount of information or the memory
  218. 6:57a model can save. Earlier when charge
  219. 6:59GPT the initial charge GPT models came
  220. 7:02the context window was pretty small. It
  221. 7:04was less than 1,000 2,000 words and
  222. 7:06that's why these models were
  223. 7:07hallucinating. As the models got better,
  224. 7:10the context window improved which has
  225. 7:12more than 1 million tokens context
  226. 7:13window. Second is going to be system
  227. 7:15prompts and third is going to be
  228. 7:16temperature. As we talked about this is
  229. 7:18the control which decides how
  230. 7:19predictable the output is going to be or
  231. 7:21how creative it is going to be. And one
  232. 7:23more important skill that you need to
  233. 7:24learn is how to get structured outputs.
  234. 7:27Most of the outputs that we get are in
  235. 7:28the JSON format because at the end you
  236. 7:31want the data to be used somewhere. If
  237. 7:33you don't get the output in a structured
  238. 7:34format, you'll not be able to show it to
  239. 7:36the user. Now the next and the most
  240. 7:38important part in the whole AI
  241. 7:40engineering thing is rag because most of
  242. 7:43the companies I I would say all of the
  243. 7:45companies need someone who can implement
  244. 7:46rag for their systems so that whatever
  245. 7:49the output is by the LM by the model is
  246. 7:52actually relevant to their customers to
  247. 7:54their team or any of the stakeholders.
  248. 7:57What is rag now? RAG is retrieval
  249. 7:59augmented generation. Now think of it if
  250. 8:01you work at Adobe there are so many
  251. 8:02instructions so many docs which the LLM
  252. 8:05is not trained on. If you have a big
  253. 8:07code base there are so many dogs that
  254. 8:10would have been written. If you want to
  255. 8:11create a chat bot so that other teams
  256. 8:13can also understand what you have done.
  257. 8:15There is no direct way to use the same
  258. 8:18data for training your model. The only
  259. 8:21way was either fine-tuning or training
  260. 8:22the model. But in that way it is a
  261. 8:25longer way and you don't want to do
  262. 8:27that. Now how do you actually give
  263. 8:28context to a model and for this you use
  264. 8:31rag. There are different types of rags
  265. 8:33and there is a whole like you need to
  266. 8:36get into the depth of it. There is graph
  267. 8:38rag, there is your normal rag, then
  268. 8:40there is aentic rag, there is vector
  269. 8:42search. There are so many things that
  270. 8:43you need to learn in this. Uh I'll just
  271. 8:45talk about the basics but you need to go
  272. 8:47in depth. I'll give you resources where
  273. 8:49you can actually learn in depth. For
  274. 8:51prompting you can check out the free
  275. 8:52official guides by enthropic or openai.
  276. 8:54Both the links are in the description
  277. 8:55and you can see them here as well. For
  278. 8:57rag, you can check out the video uh rag
  279. 9:00from scratch by free code camp. This is
  280. 9:02important the basics. It will take you 3
  281. 9:04to 4 weeks but you need to go in depth
  282. 9:07as well. So add another month for that
  283. 9:09when you are building projects. You can
  284. 9:11try out different types of rags for each
  285. 9:13of this and you can actually showcase
  286. 9:15that as well. Fourth is going to be
  287. 9:16advanced agentic systems. Till now the
  288. 9:19model was only able to answer you right
  289. 9:21you were asking some questions and the
  290. 9:23model was answering. Now the next part
  291. 9:25is actually getting some work done by
  292. 9:27these models and that is where the
  293. 9:29concept of agent actually comes. So the
  294. 9:31difference between an AI agent and a LLM
  295. 9:34or a model is that AI agent has some
  296. 9:36tools that it can access. [music] It can
  297. 9:38be a browser. It can be a video editor.
  298. 9:40It can be cloud like a AWS or Azure. It
  299. 9:44has access to multiple tools which it
  300. 9:46can invoke whenever required. An AI
  301. 9:48agent can actually take actions as well
  302. 9:49like calling an API, [music] invoking,
  303. 9:51triggering a workflow, going through the
  304. 9:53database, getting some data from
  305. 9:55database, understanding that giving you
  306. 9:57the final output like all these things
  307. 9:58can be done by an AI agent. And most of
  308. 10:01the enterprises right now want a mixture
  309. 10:03of these agentic rag systems because
  310. 10:06they want uh to create their rag and
  311. 10:09agents that can do a lot of stuff. And
  312. 10:11to get the work done by an agent, there
  313. 10:13are two things which are absolutely
  314. 10:14important. The first one is function
  315. 10:16calling and the second one is
  316. 10:17frameworks. What do you mean by function
  317. 10:19calling? So basically once the AI model
  318. 10:21decides what are the tools it wants to
  319. 10:23call they [music] it needs to call these
  320. 10:25functions as well. Needs to call these
  321. 10:27tools as well and this is called
  322. 10:28function calling. Second is [music]
  323. 10:29frameworks. When you are doing
  324. 10:30multi-step task or orchestration there
  325. 10:33are few tools that you need to learn to
  326. 10:35get these things done. And there is one
  327. 10:36more concept that you need to learn
  328. 10:38which is MCP which is called model
  329. 10:39context protocol. Think of MCP as a way
  330. 10:42to talk to any tool that was built
  331. 10:45before the AI era. If I want to talk to
  332. 10:48AWS, there are there is an MCP server
  333. 10:51which has a list of tools it can call.
  334. 10:52My LLM can call and this is what an MCP
  335. 10:55server is where they have given you a
  336. 10:57list of tools that you have access to.
  337. 10:59Your LLM has access to and they can call
  338. 11:02it. It is an advanced topic. So
  339. 11:03initially you need to just learn the
  340. 11:05basics and when you use it you can go in
  341. 11:07depth. Here are few free resources that
  342. 11:09you can definitely check out. The first
  343. 11:10one is by Microsoft AI agents for
  344. 11:12beginners course. This is on GitHub.
  345. 11:15This is free on GitHub. It has 12
  346. 11:16lessons. And here you'll be learning
  347. 11:18agents tools and multi- aent systems.
  348. 11:21[music] And second is going to be AI
  349. 11:22agent course by hugging face. Here
  350. 11:24you'll be learning how you can create
  351. 11:25agents. You can [music] build agents.
  352. 11:27And all this is absolutely free. You
  353. 11:29also get a certification. That is not
  354. 11:31the important part. But yeah, this whole
  355. 11:33step is going to take you anywhere from
  356. 11:343 to 4 weeks to get [music] the gist of
  357. 11:37it. Now I understand this sounds like a
  358. 11:39lot of new terminologies. MCP agent
  359. 11:41multi- aent orchestration rag and like
  360. 11:44so much more. So it can be confusing for
  361. 11:46sure. For this only I found a really
  362. 11:48interesting tool. This is called explain
  363. 11:50and it is built by scrimbar. Let me show
  364. 11:52you. So I've just asked what is MCP and
  365. 11:54AI? I'll ask it to explain and it will
  366. 11:57create an explainer for me.
  367. 12:00>> MCP stands for model context protocol
  368. 12:02and it's basically a universal plug for
  369. 12:04AI. Think of MCP like a USBC port for
  370. 12:08AI.
  371. 12:08>> As you can see, it is generating
  372. 12:09everything real time for me. Initially
  373. 12:12when we started it was only 7 seconds
  374. 12:14and now it's 1 minute. It gives you a
  375. 12:16clear video explanation. There is no
  376. 12:17unnecessary jarens and it comes in 33
  377. 12:20languages so that it gives you more
  378. 12:22accessibility as you can see
  379. 12:25GPS.
  380. 12:31And if I want to go deeper, I want to
  381. 12:33understand the concept more, what I can
  382. 12:35do is I can actually click on go deeper
  383. 12:37and ask follow-up questions as well. And
  384. 12:39if I want to learn the topic in more
  385. 12:40detail, what I can do is I can even
  386. 12:42convert this into a complete mini course
  387. 12:44or a playlist. You can even install
  388. 12:45their Chrome extension and you can
  389. 12:46understand any difficult topic. If
  390. 12:48you're reading a research paper, an
  391. 12:49article, you can just go there and ask
  392. 12:51it to explain the same to you. It will
  393. 12:53break the article down into simpler and
  394. 12:55easier to understand parts. You can also
  395. 12:57bring this into your existing workflow.
  396. 12:59Explain works with claude, cursor,
  397. 13:01codeex through MCP and it also has a
  398. 13:03chart GPT plug-in. So whenever you get
  399. 13:05stuck on a new concept, you can actually
  400. 13:07use this as your personal tutor. Having
  401. 13:09something like this can actually make
  402. 13:11your process so much easier. And that's
  403. 13:13why I found explain pretty useful. If
  404. 13:15you want to try it out, the link is in
  405. 13:17the description. Now let's come back to
  406. 13:18the road map. Now comes the layer five.
  407. 13:20Now you have already created the AI
  408. 13:22application. You learned how to create
  409. 13:23agents. [music] You learned how to add
  410. 13:25drag. You learned most of the things.
  411. 13:27Now the main part is the most important
  412. 13:30problem that all of us have seen in our
  413. 13:34past that it worked on my machine and it
  414. 13:36is not working on the production
  415. 13:37environment and to solve this we have
  416. 13:39docker and that is why you need to learn
  417. 13:41the basics of mlops as well you can call
  418. 13:44it mlops you can call it a ops so first
  419. 13:46you need to learn docker for this it
  420. 13:48converts your entire application into a
  421. 13:50container so it runs consistently across
  422. 13:52different platforms across different
  423. 13:54machines so whether it's on your laptop
  424. 13:56or it's on cloud it will actually work.
  425. 13:58Second is going to be cloud platforms
  426. 14:00like Azure, AWS, GCP whichever one you
  427. 14:02like. This is where you are going to
  428. 14:03host your application. So you need to
  429. 14:05learn the basics of this as well. And
  430. 14:07third is going to be cost control
  431. 14:08because everyone wants the cost to be
  432. 14:10down and you need to know how you can
  433. 14:12bring the cost down not just by reducing
  434. 14:15the model that you are using or reducing
  435. 14:17the intelligence of the model that
  436. 14:18you're using but actually doing
  437. 14:20optimizations throughout your process
  438. 14:22throughout your pipeline. And if you can
  439. 14:24reduce the cost for any company that
  440. 14:26then you are going to be really valuable
  441. 14:28for that. If you want to learn Docker,
  442. 14:30there's a free course by a free code
  443. 14:31camp. You can check that out. If you
  444. 14:33want to learn about LLM ops, there is a
  445. 14:35course on deep learning AI that you can
  446. 14:38check out here. This should take you
  447. 14:40anywhere from 3 to 4 weeks. Now the most
  448. 14:42important part, the most important layer
  449. 14:44is going to be your career strategy
  450. 14:47because the things in the AI world are
  451. 14:49changing so fast. There are so many
  452. 14:51things that are going on and so many new
  453. 14:52things that are coming up that you need
  454. 14:54to stay updated. When you are actually
  455. 14:56learning how to become an AI engineer,
  456. 14:57the last thing that you need to do is
  457. 14:59adding the projects that are relevant
  458. 15:00for becoming an AI engineer in your
  459. 15:02resume. If you just say that I am an AI
  460. 15:05engineer, I've done these
  461. 15:06certifications, no one is going to
  462. 15:07actually care what what you have done
  463. 15:09until and unless you can actually show
  464. 15:11them what you have done. So to show them
  465. 15:13you need to create real world projects
  466. 15:14or you need to do some internships. You
  467. 15:16need to create products that you have
  468. 15:17shipped, users are using. That is what
  469. 15:20you need to do in 2026. So if you are
  470. 15:23already a software engineer, uh I told
  471. 15:25you in the start of the video about hack
  472. 15:26ATS, we have built a product. There is
  473. 15:28one more feature in that which I find
  474. 15:31very very very interesting. So it is
  475. 15:33around how you can add projects in your
  476. 15:36resume so that you can show that you
  477. 15:38have learned these skills as well. So
  478. 15:41what you have to do is you just have to
  479. 15:42upload your resume. It will ask you some
  480. 15:45questions on which roles you want to
  481. 15:47target. You can tell that it will find
  482. 15:49all the jobs that are relevant for you
  483. 15:52uh and [music] give you a ATS score.
  484. 15:54Give you a relevancy score. After
  485. 15:55getting the relevancy score, you can
  486. 15:57actually check out the ATS score for
  487. 15:59your resume. If the ATS score is low, it
  488. 16:01will recommend you the courses that you
  489. 16:03can do for the cluster of jobs that you
  490. 16:06can apply to. Once you do that, you can
  491. 16:07actually improve your ATS score as well.
  492. 16:09and it will just give you a step-by-step
  493. 16:11guide on how to build it. It is going to
  494. 16:13be very relevant to you if once you do
  495. 16:16that and give it the final GitHub repo.
  496. 16:19It will give you the final pointers that
  497. 16:22you need to add in your resume so that
  498. 16:24your resume is again ATS friendly and
  499. 16:26you can apply to any job that you want.
  500. 16:28It will tailor your resume for each of
  501. 16:30the jobs that you want to apply to. So
  502. 16:32there are free credits that I'm giving
  503. 16:34to people who are going through this
  504. 16:36video. So do check it out and for any
  505. 16:39feedback there is a support email that
  506. 16:41you can email us to. We would love to
  507. 16:43know what all new features you want in
  508. 16:45this product. Apart from that there is a
  509. 16:47GitHub template on how you should create
  510. 16:50the readme file, how you should add the
  511. 16:52video on uh on whatever product that you
  512. 16:55have built. I've also attached all that
  513. 16:56in the document and in the description.
  514. 16:58So you should check that out too. Now
  515. 17:00the last part and the most interesting
  516. 17:01part is the salary and the actual
  517. 17:04reality. So if you are a fresher who
  518. 17:06wants to become an AI engineer and this
  519. 17:08is going to be your first role, you can
  520. 17:10expect anywhere from 12 lakhs to 15
  521. 17:12lakhs in India. If you come to the Gulf
  522. 17:15area, if you're able to find a job in
  523. 17:17GCC, if you are find able to find a job
  524. 17:18in Europe or outside India, the salaries
  525. 17:20are going to be crazy. In GCC that means
  526. 17:23Dubai and the Gulf area, the salaries
  527. 17:25can go anywhere from 50 lakh rupees to 1
  528. 17:28K. Once you have 2 to 4 years of
  529. 17:30experience, your salary can go anywhere
  530. 17:32from 24 lakhs to 50 lakh rupees. My
  531. 17:34co-founder had a three years of
  532. 17:35experience and his salary was in that
  533. 17:38range. He was he's from IIT Del. So that
  534. 17:40also plays some role but if some if you
  535. 17:42are not from a very prestigious college
  536. 17:44but you have done an amazing projects
  537. 17:47you can [music] get into YC companies
  538. 17:48you can get into startups and create
  539. 17:50your portfolio and not just salary range
  540. 17:52these are the skills which are really
  541. 17:54very important if you're applying for AI
  542. 17:56engineering roles and the skills are
  543. 17:58generative ILM fine tuning MLOps AI
  544. 18:00agents these are the skills that you
  545. 18:02need to learn. We did not talk about LLM
  546. 18:04finetuning in this whole video because
  547. 18:07it it would have taken more time and
  548. 18:09there are some nuances that you need to
  549. 18:11discover yourself the things that you
  550. 18:13need to find yourself to become a good
  551. 18:15AI engineer and a good engineer in
  552. 18:17general. In 2025 there were around 2.9
  553. 18:20lakh job posting for AI engineering
  554. 18:22roles. In 2026 it's around 3.82 lakhs.
  555. 18:25There's a 32% jump in just one year and
  556. 18:27this is going to increase. So this is
  557. 18:29the skill that you need to learn in
  558. 18:302026. If I talk about the timeline, it
  559. 18:32can take you anywhere from four months
  560. 18:34to 6 months and even more depending upon
  561. 18:36how much time you are actually giving to
  562. 18:38learn this. But realistically, it will
  563. 18:40take you 8 to 12 months to actually
  564. 18:41become an AI engineer. So that is it.
  565. 18:43Next step is on you. You need to start
  566. 18:46learning today. You need to build
  567. 18:47projects. Do check out scrimar. Do check
  568. 18:49out hackats whenever you are applying
  569. 18:51for jobs. And thank you for watching
  570. 18:52this video. I hope I was able to help
  571. 18:54you out. If you like this video, do
  572. 18:55click on the like button. Do subscribe
  573. 18:57to the channel. And I'll see you in the
  574. 18:58next one. Bye.

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