Tech Careers

The AI talent market isn't one market - it's at least five, and they're diverging faster than any comp committee can track. A broad-market AI engineer earns a $155K median; a frontier-lab package can clear $1M. Drawing on Levels.fyi, PwC's billion-posting Jobs Barometer, Stanford's AI Index, and secondary-market data, this analysis maps the five tiers, and makes seven forecasts for 2027

Data science extracts insights from data. AI engineering builds systems that act and learn on their own. Here’s how the two fields differ in focus, tools, goals, and career paths - so you can choose the right one.