05 — Career Roadmaps
AI / MLOps Engineer Roadmap
7 stages · 7–10 months focused · Leads to Junior MLOps / LLMOps / AI Platform Engineer
Take models — including LLMs — from notebook to reliable production. This path is built for beginners and modernized for how teams actually hire in 2026 — follow it top to bottom, build the projects, and tick off each stage as you go.
What's hot in 2026 — weave these in as you learn
- LLMOps: RAG, evals, prompt & context engineering
- Efficient model serving (vLLM, TGI) & GPU scheduling
- Vector databases & retrieval pipelines
- AI safety, guardrails & observability for non-determinism
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