1、What Is an AI Engineer?Job Market&SalaryGuide(2025)By Adrien Laurent,CEO at IntuitionLabs 11/25/2025 30 min readai engineerartificial intelligencemachine learning engineerai engineer salaryai job marketmlopsdata scientist vs ai engineerai skills gapIntuitionLabs-Custom AI Software Developmentfrom th
2、e leading AI expert Adrien LaurentWhat Is an AI Engineer?Job Market&Salary Guide(2025)2025 IntuitionLabs.ai-North Americas Leading AI Software Development Firm for Pharmaceutical&Biotech.All rights reserved.Page 1 of 16Executive SummaryThe AI engineer job market has emerged as one of the fastest-gro
3、wing and most in-demand segments of thetech workforce by late 2025.Multiple industry reports confirm that roles focused on building and deploying AIsystems are surging despite broader tech layoffs.For example,a LinkedIn analysis ranked“ArtificialIntelligence Engineer”as the#1 fastest-growing job cat
4、egory in early 2025().AI skillrequirements now appear in an overwhelming majority of tech job postings one industry survey found 78%ofIT roles demand AI expertise()and job postings explicitly mentioning“AI”grew sharply.Evenamid a 27%year-over-year decline in overall tech hiring,a ManpowerGroup study
5、 noted a 16%increase in AI-related postings over a three-month span().This buoyant demand is driving very highsalaries(median US AI engineer pay$138K(4www.coursera.org)and intense global competition for talent(tech giants routinely offer$300K and aggressive signing bonuses()().However,the AI enginee
6、r role is still evolving and variably defined.Analysts note it shares overlap with relatedroles(e.g.ML Engineer,Data Scientist)and can encompass tasks from data preparation to model-building tolarge-scale deployment.In general,AI engineers are expected to have strong software engineering and DevOpss