Salario anual mediano en 2025
120.230 US$
Mediana de toda la ocupación, de todos los niveles de experiencia. No es específica de un nivel ni de Brasil.
Carrera en 2026 y 2027
An AI/ML Engineer turns data and models into working products, from preprocessing and training to LLM integration and serving. The role grows from building a reliable model into owning platforms, safety and compliance for AI systems.
Contenido revisado el 20 de octubre de 2026
Mid-level
Accountable for taking a model from notebook to a served, monitored feature, including its prompts, hardware and fairness checks.
You own a model or LLM feature end to end for a single product area: training in containers, serving it, versioning prompts and explaining its decisions to non-technical reviewers. Compared with junior, you decide the architecture and the serving setup instead of receiving them.
Puntuación media exigida: 64%
Feature Engineering Techniques
Por qué: You can design features with target encoding or time-based aggregates without leaking the label, which is what separates a model that holds up in production from one that only looked good offline.
Feature Stores
Por qué: You can serve the same feature values in training and online inference with point-in-time correctness, removing a common cause of silent training-serving skew.
Supervised & Unsupervised Learning
Por qué: You can justify a model family and an ensemble choice against the bias-variance trade-off for a given dataset, rather than defaulting to whatever worked last time.
Deep Learning Architectures (CNN/RNN/Transformer)
Por qué: You can choose between a CNN, a recurrent model or a transformer for the modality at hand, instead of reaching for the newest architecture when a simpler one fits.
LLM API Integration
Por qué: You can abstract providers behind one interface and manage token budgets, so switching models during a vendor outage or price change is a config change, not a rewrite.
Prompt Engineering for Production
Por qué: You can version prompts, test them against a fixed set of cases and A/B test a change, so a prompt edit does not regress the feature without anyone noticing.
Model Serving (TorchServe/Triton/vLLM)
Por qué: You can deploy a model behind Triton, TorchServe or vLLM and tune batching for latency, so the first traffic spike does not turn into timeouts.
Containerized Training (Docker/K8s)
Por qué: You can package training in a Docker image and run it on Kubernetes, so a colleague can reproduce last week's run on a fresh cluster.
GPU/TPU Resource Management
Por qué: You can fit a training job into GPU memory with mixed precision and multi-GPU settings, rather than shrinking the model after an out-of-memory failure.
Bias Detection & Mitigation
Por qué: You can measure a fairness metric across groups before launch and apply a mitigation, so a skewed training set is caught in review and not by affected users.
Model Explainability (SHAP/LIME)
Por qué: You can use SHAP or LIME to explain one prediction to a business reviewer who asks why a customer was rejected, and back it with global feature importance.
Cada nivel de esta carrera corresponde a una ruta de estudio. Lee gratis el mapa completo de temas y luego mide tu nivel.
Salario anual mediano en 2025
Mediana de toda la ocupación, de todos los niveles de experiencia. No es específica de un nivel ni de Brasil.
Crecimiento previsto del empleo, 2025–2035
Mucho más rápido que la media
Ocupación de EE. UU. más cercana: Data Scientists. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, actualizado el 27 de agosto de 2026
12 semanas · intensivo
Unas 8 horas por semana, en 1 ciclo centrados en las brechas que más pesan.
40 semanas · regular
Unas 4 horas por semana, en 3 ciclos. Cada ciclo lleva lo que quedó pendiente del anterior.
An AI/ML Engineer turns data and models into working products, from preprocessing and training to LLM integration and serving. The role grows from building a reliable model into owning platforms, safety and compliance for AI systems.
AI/ML Engineer está mapeado en 4 niveles: Junior, Mid-level, Senior y Expert. Abre cada nivel arriba para ver las habilidades que debe demostrar.
El plan tiene 2 ritmos: 12 semanas por nivel, con unas 8 horas por semana (intensivo) y 40 semanas por nivel, con unas 4 horas por semana (regular).
Una sesión de estudio para cada tema nuevo, a tu nivel.
Clases prácticas de uso de IA en el día a día de tu carrera.
Cada requisito se demuestra midiendo, no marcando una casilla.
Al final de cada ciclo ves qué avanzó y qué pasa al siguiente.
Un diagnóstico corto mide las habilidades que ya tienes. El recorrido empieza ahí.