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How I'd Become an AI Engineer in 2026 (Even with No CS Degree)

Marina Wyss - AI & Machine Learning

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Timestamps ⏰
00:00 How to become an AI engineer in 2026 with no CS degree
00:34 What does an AI Engineer do?
02:13 How to learn programming for AI engineering
04:08 How much math do you need for AI engineering?
04:37 How much ML do you need for AI Engineering?
05:13 The AI engineering fundamentals to prioritize first
06:30 Advanced AI engineering: Agentic systems
07:15 Production engineering and infrastructure for AI engineering
07:50 How to prepare for AI engineering interviews
08:39 How to actually learn AI engineering (free courses!)
10:50 Building AI engineering projects
14:08 My most important tips for getting a job
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Courses/books I mentioned in this video:
Learn Python with Scrimba: https://scrimba.com/learn-python-c04n...
3blue1brown: Essence of linear algebra
ML Crash course: https://developers.google.com/machine...
Deeplearning.AI: https://www.deeplearning.ai/courses
HuggingFace LLM course: https://huggingface.co/learn/llm-cour...
AI engineering book: https://amzn.to/3SACgHa
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2606.24937
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20 Comments

@zzarcco 1 month ago

I have been following your guidance for a while, and now I am at the point of meeting with founders and board members of non-profits to build experience. Thank you for sharing your experience and providing excellent guidance!!!

@Lakki68 6 days ago

This Video is so cool, Yes, very direct with links and all , going through the hitchhikes pdf now

@barikung 1 day ago

Thank you for sharing beneficial resources and inspiring journey.

I’m a data engineer that looks for the transition to AI engineering field as I’m more passionate about it. So, this is the cool video that helps identify what skill sets I need to hone more. 👍

@Cheeekii 1 month ago

As an editor, I have to say, I love your editing style, and clearly you display a love for making information both clear and concise, so bravo to you!

@John5ive 1 month ago

This is a very comprehensive plan. I appreciate it. Now I just have to do it. Thank you Mrs Vees!

@griffithjoe1 1 month ago

Thank you, Marina. I started as a complete beginner on DataCamp. I completed the Introduction to Python and Intermediate Python courses. I am currently working on the Associate AI Engineer for Developers and Associate Python for Developers tracks. Your videos are incredibly helpful for figuring out what’s important, staying motivated, and staying on track!

@KRISHNU10 1 month ago

If i see trapping rainwater in an interview, I'm walking out.

@jaydivina533 1 month ago

Awesome video. Concise, complete and absolutely relatable as well. Kudos and respect to you. be well and thank you.

@bagredenotridame 2 weeks ago

Thank you so so so so so much!
I'm already familiarized with codex, claude, vs code, hermes, mcp, and all frontier models, ive already used docker, ive took stuff online and all that, git, etc, its been 4 months of enjoying things for fun
Now i think its time for me to do your plan and follow it up to cover everything up

@Crashmadle07 1 month ago

very informative and well presented, thank you for taking the time to share your expertise

@sadamusa3240 2 weeks ago

Well done

@PedroSalazarOrtega-tw1jt 3 weeks ago

Thank you so much!!!

@TheBeach5563 1 month ago (edited)

Thanks again for sharing. Always motivating.

@sankalptamboli1360 1 month ago

Thanks for this video mam.I will follow your guidance

@Leon-n9h1q 1 month ago

Tnx for your guidance appreciate it ❤

@thebudgetnoob7536 2 weeks ago

tnq woman !

@Shimu-x8r 1 month ago

gosh i love you so much
i love this video of your the most
i also like the road-map .html file you created with progress tracker

@jonathanjblair 1 month ago

Thank you for this. I’m going to share it with my college students. I’ve been trying to get this across to them that they still need to understand the foundations of both software development and how AI actually works if they want to be successful in the field. So many of them have just fallen into the I’ll just drop it into a chat and let AI create everything.

@fiazsyed5621 4 weeks ago

Excellent geniune suggest 🎉

@yettsy 10 days ago

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Agentic AI: From Foundations to Systems is a great resource 11:58.
I took the leap and started building my first project an airline chatbot using synthetic data 📊 and Googles DialogFlow with Console Management. Making the project 😅in a topic I understand (airline) did help during the debugging phase which was a lot lol. Cheers 🎉