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Architecture5 month path

AI Architect

$160k – $280k

AI Architects define the technical strategy for AI adoption — platform design, model governance, cost control, and cross-team enablement.

4 skills·2 learning paths·3 certifications·3 projects

Overview

Senior engineers who want to move into architecture roles will learn to design multi-model platforms, define AI governance frameworks, architect for cost efficiency, build internal developer tooling for AI, lead model evaluation programs, and communicate AI tradeoffs to business stakeholders. This is the most senior individual-contributor path in the AI space.

Prerequisites

3+ years engineering experience
Cloud infrastructure
System design
LLM API experience

Capstone projects

Project 01

Enterprise AI platform design doc

Project 02

Model router with cost optimization

Project 03

AI governance policy framework