AI Roadmaps

Overview

Roadmaps help learners know what to learn now, what to skip for later, and how to connect concepts with real project execution.

AI Roadmaps at a glance

Find the focus areas, practical guidance and next steps that match your goals.

Skill Progression

Map foundations, prompting, APIs, retrieval, agents, evaluation, and deployment into a realistic sequence.

Project Milestones

Attach each roadmap phase to a real project so progress becomes visible and portfolio-backed.

Career Relevance

Tie roadmap checkpoints to hiring signals, capability growth, and differentiated builder proof.

Role-Based Roadmaps For AI Careers

Each roadmap shows the role focus, timeline, core skills, projects, tools, and recommended sequence so learners can align their work with a real AI career path.

AI Engineer

Build reliable AI systems with strong grounding in retrieval, agents, evaluation, and production tradeoffs.

Recommended Sequence

• LLM and prompt basics
• Embeddings and vector search
• RAG systems
• Workflow orchestration
• Agents and tool use
• Evaluation and production hardening

Skills Mapping

• LLMs, embeddings, vector databases, and prompt engineering
• RAG architecture, agent workflows, orchestration, and evals
• APIs, backend services, async jobs, logging, and testing
• Monitoring, cost control, latency, and fallback design

Project Mapping

• document Q&A system
• internal knowledge assistant
• multi-step research agent
• evaluation dashboard for AI outputs

Tool Mapping

• OpenAI or Anthropic APIs
• Python or Node.js
• FastAPI or Express
• pgvector, Pinecone, or Weaviate
• LangGraph or orchestration tooling
• Postgres and Docker

AI Fullstack Developer

Build end-to-end AI applications across frontend, backend, and AI layers with practical product delivery skills.

• Fullstack app basics
• AI API integration
• Prompt engineering
• Retrieval and document workflows
• Production UI patterns for AI apps
• Portfolio-grade SaaS projects
• React UI flows, streaming responses, and state handling
• APIs, auth, file upload, queueing, and data models
• Prompt systems, structured output, and RAG basics
• Deployment, UX for AI interactions, and error states
• AI resume builder
• AI quiz generator
• PDF chat app
• AI SaaS starter with auth and billing
• React or Next.js
• TypeScript
• Node.js
• Supabase or Postgres
• Vercel and vector storage when needed

AI Product Engineer

Translate user problems into useful AI features, workflows, and product systems that balance capability with usability.

• User problem framing
• Prompt and workflow design
• AI feature prototyping
• RAG and context systems
• Evaluation and iteration
• Shipping productized AI experiences
• Use-case selection, UX flows, and feature scoping
• Prompting, RAG, tool use, and model tradeoffs
• APIs, event flows, analytics, and experimentation
• Evals, iteration loops, and adoption metrics
• AI onboarding copilot
• meeting notes to action-items workflow
• AI support assistant
• product-feedback analysis tool
• analytics tooling
• vector database when needed
• workflow and experimentation dashboards

AI Automation Engineer

Build AI-powered workflows that automate repetitive business and developer tasks with strong validation and integration discipline.

• Workflow basics
• Prompt-based automation tasks
• Integrations and webhooks
• Validation and guardrails
• Multi-step AI automations
• Production workflow monitoring
• Triggers, actions, branching, and retries
• Classification, extraction, summarization, and routing
• APIs, webhooks, documentation, and SaaS integrations
• Validation, fallbacks, monitoring, and human review
• email triage automation
• lead qualification workflow
• support ticket classifier
• document extraction and routing pipeline
• n8n, Zapier, or Make
• REST APIs and webhooks
• Google Workspace, Slack, or CRM integrations
• databases for logging and state

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