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The AI Engineer role in 2025: what it actually means, and how to get hired for it
Everyone is posting "AI Engineer" jobs. Hardly anyone agrees on what the role means. We interviewed 12 hiring managers at UK tech companies to find out what they're actually looking for — and it's not what the job descriptions say.
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Alex Chen
24 Feb 2025
8 min read
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Salary & Market
UK Data & AI Salary Report 2025: real numbers from 400 engineers
Median salaries by role, seniority, city, and sector. Updated February 2025 from our anonymous salary survey.
17 Feb 2025
6 min
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Career strategy
Finance → Data Science in 9 months: one engineer's honest account
No bootcamp, no master's degree. How a structured self-study plan and 3 portfolio projects landed a DS role at a FTSE 100.
10 Feb 2025
10 min
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Skills & learning
The only 5 Python libraries you need to master for ML engineering in 2025
Not NumPy, Pandas, and Scikit-learn. Those are table stakes. Here's what actually separates mid-level from senior ML engineers.
3 Feb 2025
7 min
GenAI & AI
RAG vs fine-tuning in production: when each approach actually wins
Based on 6 real production decisions from engineers at UK scale-ups. Theory is one thing — here's what they actually chose, and why.
27 Jan 2025
9 min
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Salary & Market
Which certifications actually increased salaries? Data from 120 engineers
AWS ML Specialty: +$10k median. GCP ML Engineer: +$8k. DeepLearning.AI: hard to measure. The honest data on cert ROI.
20 Jan 2025
5 min
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Career strategy
How to negotiate your ML engineer salary: a script that actually works
Three real negotiation conversations, with what was said at each stage. The median uplift across these examples was $14,500.
13 Jan 2025
8 min
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