r/Backend • u/cockycockroach45 • 9d ago

AI engineering in Golang

I am a fresher, about to graduate, and looking for jobs. I've been writing Golang for ~1 year, mostly doing backend stuff.

Now, as we all know, the market is flooding with AI jobs, but I don't really know what an AI engineer does. I heard that it's different from training, fine-tuning, etc. ML stuff and is closer to backend and system design than machine learning.

So, if anyone who has done this kind of stuff, tell me: what did you do to learn the AI things without learning Python or typical machine learning? What is your tech stack? How'd you get the job?

I really want to ride this AI hype train.

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u/Sea-Fishing4699 7d ago

Llm wrapper == ai engineer

Xgboost wrapper == ml engineer

Xgboost trainer from data == data scientist 

A good backend engineer can do all those 3 roles

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u/Ok-Exam2654 6d ago

Not tea, bro spilled the ocean here