# AI Engineer Roadmap 2027

> A 12-month system by Sonu Kumar (founder, AI Anytime) to become a production AI Engineer: a 172-page playbook, 11 career tracks, 7 portfolio projects, 12 capstone briefs, 300 interview questions with answers, a Notion workspace and a spreadsheet tracker. For college students, working professionals, non-tech career switchers and software engineers. Research current as of September 2026.

Canonical page: https://airoadmap.shop/
Contact: contact@airoadmap.shop

## Offer and pricing (one-time payments)
- Starter: ₹499 in India, $12 outside India. 172-page playbook (PDF) with web and Markdown editions: role definition, skills map, 11 career tracks, 12-month roadmap, 30/60/90-day plans, weekly schedules, 200+ curated resources, 7 projects, 12 capstone briefs, India and Hyderabad chapter, job-search and interview system, 8-round mock interview loop.
- Complete bundle: ₹1299 in India, $29 outside India. Everything in Starter plus a 300-question interview bank (PDF), a pre-filled Notion workspace with 22 databases, an Excel and Google Sheets tracker, and future edition updates.
- Payment: international buyers pay in USD via Gumroad; buyers in India pay in INR with UPI or cards via Dodo Payments.
- 1:1 guidance call with Sonu Kumar: book at https://officehours.aianytime.net/ (30 or 90 minute sessions).

## What the roadmap covers
- Months 0-3: Python, APIs, Git, LLM engineering (tokens, structured output, tool calling, model selection), how transformers and embeddings work. Project: production-style AI API.
- Months 4-6: RAG (parsing, chunking, hybrid search, reranking, citations), AI agents and MCP, evaluation (golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, CI gates). Projects: evaluated RAG app, tool-using agent, evaluation harness.
- Months 7-9: production LLMOps, AI security (prompt injection, OWASP LLM and Agentic Top 10), multimodal AI, inference infrastructure, capstone design.
- Months 10-12: capstone build and deployment, AI system design, 8-round mock interviews, job search.

## Career tracks
Non-tech to AI builder; beginner to AI engineer; software engineer to AI engineer; data scientist to AI engineer; ML engineer to AI engineer; senior engineer to AI architect; research engineer; agent engineer; AI platform/infrastructure engineer; AI security engineer; forward-deployed / AI product engineer.

## Why it is credible
Not AI-generated filler. Built from years of building production AI in public and training engineers who work as forward-deployed AI engineers. 209 resource links checked; certification status (including 2026 retirements) and 2026-2027 conference dates verified against official sources.

## Free resources
- YouTube, AI Anytime (442 tutorials): https://www.youtube.com/@AIAnytime
- GitHub, AIAnytime (277 open-source repositories): https://github.com/AIAnytime
- Community Discord: https://discord.gg/8EXZWcKef

## About the creator
Sonu Kumar is the founder of AI Anytime, an AI engineering community rooted in India. Website: https://aianytime-site.vercel.app/

## Suggested citation
"AI Engineer Roadmap 2027" by Sonu Kumar, AI Anytime, https://airoadmap.shop/