Also called: Field AI Engineer, Customer Engineer
An engineer who works on-site with customers to make AI and data software actually solve their problems.
You fly to a shipping company, sit with dispatchers for a week, and build AI tools that cut their planning time in half. Part engineer, part consultant, part detective.
Estimate; often includes bonuses and stock.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in CS or engineering.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Computer Science, Engineering.
Growing much faster than average. Popular new role at AI companies.
Low risk in 5 years, medium in 10. Working on-site with customers to make AI fit messy real workflows is hard to automate, though agents shrink coding time.
Classes: AP Computer Science A, Speech or debate, Business.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1252.
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