What SKILLS do you REALLY need as an AI Engineer?

Explore the free AI Engineering skills dashboard: https://www.pragmatic-ai.academy/skills 🚀 Learn to build real AI applications with my course, AI Engineering Fundamentals: http://lukaslechner.com/ai-engineerin... What skills do you REALLY need to become an AI Engineer? Instead of guessing, I built Ferdinand, an AI-powered pipeline that has analyzed over 8,000 job postings to find out what companies are actually hiring for. In this video, I walk you through the results and show you how to use the data to decide what to learn next. You’ll learn: • Which AI Engineering skills appear most often in job postings • Where Python, RAG, AI agents, evaluations, and cloud platforms fit in • Why machine learning might be less essential than you think for roles focused on building LLM applications • How the pipeline filters job postings and extracts skills • How to find your next skills to learn based on your existing experience Timestamps: 0:00 What skills are companies hiring for? 0:41 About me 0:58 Meet Ferdinand, the job market analyst 2:12 How the data pipeline works 4:02 What counts as an AI engineer? 4:33 Classifying jobs and extracting skills 6:06 #1 Python 8:45 #2 RAG 9:57 #3 AI agents 10:28 #4 AI evals 12:17 #5 Prompt engineering 12:47 #6 AWS and other cloud providers 13:40 #7 CI/CD 13:58 #8 Vector databases 14:51 #9 Azure and #10 LangChain 16:00 Summary: the three skill categories 17:27 Filter and search skills 19:08 Stay up to date 19:25 Meet Paula, the AI career strategist 21:33 Wrap-up I’m Lukas Lechner, a developer with 15+ years of experience and an online educator who has taught 12,000+ students. I help developers become job-ready AI Engineers through practical projects and real-world skills. Try the dashboard and let me know in the comments: which finding surprised you most, and what are you learning next? Subscribe for more practical AI Engineering tutorials and job-market insights! #AIEngineering #AIEngineer #LLM