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What Skills Do You Need to Become an AI Engineer?
Marina Wyss
May 01, 2025
Welcome to Gratitude Driven, a weekly newsletter where I share practical ideas and insights across personal growth, professional development, and the world of AI and data science.
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What Skills Do You Need to Become an AI Engineer?
AI Engineering: A Realistic Roadmap for Beginners
I’ve seen sooo many videos saying you can become a self-taught AI Engineer in like, six months. Which — in case it’s not obvious — is not possible unless you’re insanely talented.
For most people, it’s going to take A LOT longer. And that’s ok! In this video, I talk about what skills you’ll need to learn, and about how long I think it would take to go from beginner to AI Engineer at a top company.
And here’s the blog version.
One of my big takeaways when putting this video together was just that there are SO MANY skills to learn.
So, I made a checklist of skills I think you’ll need to master to become an AI Engineer. You can download it for free here.
I’ve partnered with DataCamp for this video! DataCamp has a bunch of great AI Engineering courses for folks with different backgrounds:
For developers looking to integrate AI into applications, their Associate AI Engineer for Developers track teaches you how to work with the OpenAI API, Hugging Face, LangChain, and vector databases like Pinecone.
For those with a data science background who want to dig more into working with foundation models themselves, the Associate AI Engineer for Data Scientists track helps you transition to AI engineering.
And if you’re a complete beginner, the AI Fundamentals track provides a no-code introduction to core AI concepts.
Check the courses out for a great way to get started with your AI Engineering learning.
Mid-Week Inspiration
I’m in the very very early stages of planning to write a book. As part of that, I’ve been reading a lot. Here are some passages I’ve come across that may inspire you, too.
"... looking at the work done and the work still to do, most people would have written the whole thing off as too much sweat for too little gain. But I didn't want an easy life. I wanted a beautiful one."
“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don’t think about what you want to be, but what you want to do.”
"I can only make sense of my unaccountable good fortune by assuming that it means I am under special obligation to make good use of it."
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