AI Engineering Roadmap - 2026
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๐ Free live meetup. 60 minutes.
The "AI Engineer" role didn't exist three years ago.
Today it's the highest-paying, fastest-growing job in tech โ $150K to $250K, with companies like Meta, Anthropic, OpenAI, and every YC startup hiring as fast as they can find people who can actually build.
The problem? Most people trying to break in are stuck on the wrong path โ LangChain tutorials, Kaggle notebooks, and bootcamps that haven't shipped a real AI product to production.
In this 60-min live session, I'll walk you through the exact
7-phase roadmap I'm using to take career-switchers from data analyst, SWE, or DE โ AI Engineer roles in 10 weeks.
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๐ฏ You'll leave knowing:
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What an AI Engineer actually does (and what they don't โ most people get this wrong)
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The 7 phases โ Foundations โ Prompts โ RAG โ Agents โ Evals โ Productionization โ Job Search
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The salary data, the market, and where the jobs are right now
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How to do it in 10 weeks without quitting your job
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Live Q&A โ bring your specific situation, your specific questions
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๐ค About your host โ Cris:
- Data Engineer at Meta
- 10+ years in data engineering
- 200+ senior-level technical interviews conducted
- Founder of Stackle โ the career operating system for data + AI professionals
๐ฅ This is for you if:
- You're a Data Engineer, SWE, Data Scientist, BI dev, or analyst with 2+ years of experience
- You want to transition into AI Engineering in the next 6 months
- You're tired of tutorial collections and want a real roadmap
- You learn faster from practitioners than from content creators
This is NOT for you if:
- You're a complete beginner with no coding background
- You want passive video lectures (this is interactive)
- You want a job guarantee (we focus on real skills + interview prep, not promises)
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๐ฅ Bonus โ for attendees only:
After the meetup, you'll get:
- The full AI Engineer Roadmap (clickable, 35 topics, the lead magnet I built for this)
- Early access to the Founding Cohort (June 15 โ only 15 seats, $500 off)
- An invite to the free hackathon on May 30
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๐ Where: Zoom (link sent after RSVP) ๐ When: Thursday, May 21 ยท 5:00 PM PT / 8:00 PM ET / 5:30 AM IST (Friday) ๐ต Cost: Free ๐๏ธ Format: 40-min walkthrough + 20-min live Q&A
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