The AI engineer is quickly becoming one of the most highly-paid tech jobs of 2026.
As a self-taught senior AI engineer at a top YCombinator startup, here is the AI engineer roadmap I'd follow in 2026 to break into this fast-moving industry. This video includes tips on choosing appropriate GenAI/ML courses to follow, building your AI engineer resume/profile/Linkedin, building AI projects that get you hired and leveraging new technologies like LangChain, LangSmith, LLM Evals to make you more attractive in this job market.