Titles are meaningless in general. Within a well organized company it should be defined with a job spec. A
job
ad should describe the
roll behind the title.
Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#22Someone who mastered HTTP calls
And has filled out that silly form
that lets you use Azure to make them.
Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#23In the USA, anyone can be an engineer. All they require is the will to call themselves an engineer. (Except for a few specific types). Eg, customer service engineers are now a thing
whoa!
Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#24You don’t, stop adding the term “engineer” to any new trendy phrase, like “prompt engineer”! It lost its meaning and it doesn’t make you look professional either, it’s like calling yourself “phones doctor!”..
"Prompt engineering" isn't as bad as "social engineering" IMHO.
That said, if one's job is just to write prompts (hence "prompt engineer" without the "-ing")... maybe that's actually bad.
Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#25At my company they have ML engineer positions. However, I've found that most of them are just devs building APIs to interact with the model, or being a data jockey for the model. Basically, titles are almost meaningless.
Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#26An "AI Engineer" engineers AI solutions.
Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#27At my company they have ML engineer positions. However, I've found that most of them are just devs building APIs to interact with the model, or being a data jockey for the model. Basically, titles are almost meaningless.
What do you/what does your company want to see?
I'm a teacher who trains the kids you will be hiring in a few years. Tell me what to teach them.
Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#28At my company they have ML engineer positions. However, I've found that most of them are just devs building APIs to interact with the model, or being a data jockey for the model. Basically, titles are almost meaningless.
What do you/what does your company want to see? I'm a teacher who trains the kids you will be hiring in a few years. Tell me what to teach them.
I have no idea. The hiring managers can be all over the place.
Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#29When I think "AI engineer", I think of people working to develop AI engines, not people who are using the AI engines.
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Re: Ask HN: How do you define an "AI engineer"?
#30NFT bros had their pixel avatars, AI has Stable Diffusion generated avatars :D For some reason you can't use a real photo in either of these fields of work.
What really defines an AI engineer:
A) Already used their $5 on OpenAI API B) Has llamacpp/ollama etc. in their CLI with a library of models C) Has 64GB+ VRAM which makes computer extremely loud possibly gas-powered