AI engineering guide adds 4,894 job posts and real interview patterns across 51 companies
Al_Grigor · x · 2026-07-28
Alexey Grigorev updated his AI Engineering Field Guide with six months of hiring data and practitioner notes.
What’s new
- 4,894 job descriptions analyzed from January to June 2026
- Real interview experiences and stories from practitioners
- Role analysis, skills that keep showing up, interview patterns, and learning paths
What the guide covers
- What AI engineer roles actually look like
- Skills, cloud stacks, and frameworks that recur in hiring
- Interview questions, take-home patterns, and post-interview outcomes
- Transition paths from data engineering, ML, backend, and frontend
- Portfolio guidance and company-by-company interview process data for 51 companies
The repo is positioned as a data-driven reference for people trying to understand how AI engineering jobs are actually being hired for, not just how they are described in job ads.
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