AI Engineer
Builds applications and products on top of AI models, APIs and modern ML infrastructure.
Also seen as: Artificial Intelligence Engineer, AI Software Engineer
Market status: established · Last updated Sep 29, 2026 · Source: public employer job postings tracked by AI Career Observatory
What does a AI Engineer do?
AI Engineers build product features and systems that use AI models — through APIs, open-weight models or custom pipelines. Day-to-day work includes integrating LLM APIs, building retrieval and generation pipelines, prompt design, evaluation, latency and cost optimization, and shipping AI features inside larger software products.
Job titles we classify into this role
Real, current titles from tracked postings — role names vary by employer; this is what a AI Engineer actually looks like in the market right now.
- Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences) Anthropic
- Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Anthropic
- Applied AI Engineer, DNB Anthropic
- Applied AI Engineer, Startups Anthropic
- Applied AI Engineer, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences) Anthropic
- Senior GTM AI Engineer AssemblyAI
- Staff Software Engineer, GTM AI Engineering Anthropic
- Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Anthropic
Title variants normalized into this role: Artificial Intelligence Engineer · AI Software Engineer — plus employer-specific patterns matched with evidence. See classification methodology.
Skills employers ask for
Share of tracked AI Engineer postings mentioning each skill (n = 31).
Current AI Engineer jobs
View all 31 →Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise
Applied AI Engineer, DNB
Applied AI Engineer, Startups
Senior GTM AI Engineer
Staff Software Engineer, GTM AI Engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise
Companies hiring AI Engineers
Salary
Based on 14 disclosed ranges in tracked job postings. Advertised ranges only — not offers, not total compensation. Full salary page →