Roadmap

AI Engineer Roadmap

Build AI product features that work outside demos.

01

Foundations

Understand LLM APIs, prompting, tokens, and failure modes.

  • Model APIs
  • Prompt structure
  • Latency and cost

02

Retrieval

Learn embeddings, vector search, and source-grounded answers.

  • Embeddings
  • Chunking
  • RAG evaluation

03

Production

Make AI behaviour measurable and recoverable.

  • Evals
  • Observability
  • Fallbacks

04

Proof

Ship one real workflow and document what breaks.

  • Applied project
  • Cost notes
  • Quality checks

Readiness evidence

  • Completed project
  • Explainable trade-offs
  • Practice under realistic constraints

Turn this into today's learning plan.

Roe turns an outcome into the next useful lesson, then checks and reviews what sticks.