Matching Your Interests to 5 AI Engineering Job Roles

Bashiri Smith · Facebook reel · 2026-09-04 · 0:32 · 18,195 views · Open on Facebook

Topics: Start Here: Roadmaps & Strategy, Resume, Job Search & Interviews · Level: beginner

Summary

A quick guide that matches what you enjoy doing to an AI career path. Building products points to AI Engineer, math and models to ML Engineer, cloud and infrastructure to AI Platform Engineer, and solving business problems to either Forward Deployed Engineer (very technical) or AI Solutions Engineer (less technical). The video ends with a pitch for the creator's Skool community, BASWE.Ai Engineer. Note: the caption says "6 interests = 6 AI jobs", but the video only names 5 roles.

Key points

• Like building products → AI Engineer.
• Like math and models → Machine Learning (ML) Engineer.
• Like cloud and infrastructure → AI Platform Engineer.
• Like solving business problems and you're very technical → Forward Deployed Engineer.
• Like solving business problems and you're less technical → AI Solutions Engineer.
• The title says 6 interests and 6 jobs, but only 5 mappings are given.
• The creator's community offers a curated AI engineering roadmap plus calls with working AI/ML engineers and recruiters. The spoken pitch says 'daily calls' and 'land a role in six months'; the caption says 'weekly coaching' and 'the next 90 days'.

Resources mentioned

• BASWE.Ai Engineer (Skool community) · community · skool.com · paid
  The creator's paid community and program, with an AI learning roadmap (including the full ops and evaluation track), daily calls with engineers and recruiters, resume and portfolio help, and a job-search pipeline.
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Try this

• Work out which activity you enjoy most (building products, math/models, cloud/infrastructure, or solving business problems) and pick the matching AI role.
• If you solve business problems, decide how technical you want to be: Forward Deployed Engineer (very technical) or AI Solutions Engineer (less technical).
• Optional (creator's pitch): comment 'interest' to get the link to join the community.