The $250K AI Engineer Roadmap — 6 Months, Week by Week, Every Resource Free

Built from 1,302 live AI-engineer job postings scraped Aug 2026 from ~200 company boards (OpenAI, Databricks, Anthropic, Waymo, Palantir, Scale and more) via the public Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby APIs. THE RECEIPTS: entry/mid salary midpoint median $250,000 (192 US postings with disclosed bands); 62% of all 1,302 postings never mention a degree at all; 106 postings pay $250K+ AND never name a degree; AI agents appear in 48% of postings — more than PyTorch, TensorFlow and computer vision combined — while standalone prompt engineering is down to 11%. THE ROADMAP: 24 weeks, month by month — Month 1 Python + SQL, Month 2 LLM APIs, Month 3 RAG + vectors, Month 4 AI agents, Month 5 evals + production, Month 6 portfolio + interviews — every week with one free resource (Harvard CS50P, Anthropic Academy, Hugging Face Agents Course, promptfoo, FastAPI and more, all linked) and one thing to SHIP, so you finish with three deployed projects that function as your years of experience. Plus the full skills-demand table across all 1,302 postings and the honest methodology. Independent field guide from Hyperautomation Labs.

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