Welcome to the AI Engineering Track.
What it is An AI Engineer builds AI-powered applications (not just prompts) using Python/JavaScript, APIs, databases, and deployments. You’ll learn to create systems that can retrieve knowledge, follow rules, return structured outputs, and run reliably in production. Think: you build the app, not just the answer. What you’ll build here - API services (ex: FastAPI endpoints that return structured JSON) - AI features: summarization, extraction, classification, QA checks - RAG apps (retrieval + citations from a knowledge base) - database-backed apps (users, sessions, history/logging) - deployment + documentation (so someone else can run it) Skills that matter most 1. Programming fundamentals — clean functions, debugging, data structures 2. APIs — request/response, validation, auth, structured outputs 3. Data + storage — Postgres/Supabase, schemas, logging, audit trail 4. LLM engineering — prompts, evals, guardrails, tool calling 5. Production habits — error handling, tests, monitoring, deployment Comment ROADMAP if you can’t find it and I’ll point you to it. https://echelonaiq.com/roadmap