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Which AI Career Fits You?

"AI Engineer" means different things at different companies, and the titles keep shifting. Sort responsibilities, skills, and real job titles into the right bucket across 6 rounds, and walk away knowing exactly what each role actually does.

Data Scientist

Builds the model from scratch — design, train, prove it with a metric.

ML Engineer

Runs the model in production — serve it, monitor it, retrain it.

AI Engineer

Wires someone else's model into a product — prompts, RAG, evaluation.

Forward Deployed Eng.

Ships AI at the customer's desk — code and the conversation.

70.8%
of AI jobs need Python
59.7%
need evaluation skills
4.2x
FDE listings grew in 6 months
3.9%
are "pure GenAI," nothing else
Round 1 · Core Responsibilities

🎯 Sort the Responsibility

Tap a card, then tap the role it belongs to.

0 of 6 placed

Round 2 · Skills

🧰 Sort the Skill

Same idea, more cards. Which role's toolbox does each skill belong in?

0 of 9 placed

Round 3 · The "AI Engineer" Title Hides 3 Jobs

🔍 Sort the AI Engineer Type

"AI Engineer" splits into three very different jobs. Sort each task into AI-First, AI-Support, or classic ML.

0 of 6 placed

Round 4 · Real Job Titles

🏷️ Sort the Job Title

These are real titles pulled from job postings. Which core role does each one map to?

0 of 8 placed

Round 5 · Spot the FDE

🤝 AI Engineer or Forward Deployed?

Both write code and both use LLMs. The difference is who they sit with and what they own.

0 of 6 placed

Boss Round · Everything, Mixed

🏆 The Final Sort

Responsibilities, skills, and titles, all mixed together. Sort every card into its role for the win.

0 of 12 placed

Game Complete

Nice work! 🎉

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Cheat Sheet

The four roles, at a glance

DS
Data Scientist
Designs the dataset, trains the model, proves it with a metric.
ML
ML Engineer
Serves the model, monitors drift, retrains in production.
AI
AI Engineer
Integrates an existing LLM: prompts, RAG, evaluation, monitoring.
FDE
Forward Deployed
An AI Engineer embedded with one customer, owning the outcome.