# How Can I Be An AI Engineer?

DevFeed: [How Can I Be An AI Engineer?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-can-i-be-an-ai-engineer-33446.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/12/09/ai-engineer>)

Published: 2024-12-09T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Tim Kellogg](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/tim-kellogg.md>)

Topics: [AI Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-engineering.md>), [AI Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-development.md>), [Large Language Model](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/llm.md>), [Retrieval-Augmented Generation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/retrieval-augmented-generation.md>), [Data pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data-pipelines.md>), [Embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embeddings.md>), [Front end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/frontend.md>), [React](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/react.md>)

Tags: [ai-engineer](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-engineer.md>), [ai-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-engineering.md>), [data-pipelines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data-pipelines.md>), [embeddings](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embeddings.md>), [frontend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontend.md>), [genai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/genai.md>), [llms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/llms.md>)

## AI overview

The article explains what AI engineers do, emphasizing that the role involves integrating generative AI models into applications and may include building user interfaces, APIs, and data pipelines. It describes several archetypes, including data-pipeline and UX-focused AI engineers, and discusses skills and experience that may be useful.

## Source excerpt

You want to be an AI Engineer? Do you even have the right skills? What do they do? All great questions. I've had this same conversation several times, so I figured it would be best to write it down. Here I answer all those, and break down the job into archetypes that should help you understand how you'll contribute.