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If you’re finding it hard to get back into the groove after the holidays, it’s understandable. Making a career move might sound thrilling, especially if the thought of spending another year in your current job fills you with dread.
You’re definitely not the only one feeling the January blues. According to Indeed, January is a top month for job hunting. This is partly because many companies have a lot of openings and there are plenty of job seekers applying.
When it comes to desirable tech roles for 2024, AI is leading the pack. New research from Bizreport indicates that AI is significantly reshaping the American job market. AI-related jobs not only offer 77.53% higher salaries than other fields, but the pay gap between tech jobs and other professions has also increased by 36% because of AI.
Moreover, in 2023, 30.3% of computer science jobs were related to AI. This year looks even more promising with over 131,000 AI-related roles anticipated in the computer science market.
So, if you’re thinking about switching jobs, there are plenty of high-paying AI roles available right now. Check out the VentureBeat Job Board or consider these highlighted positions:
AI Architect, Salesforce, Dallas
This role offers a salary range from $233,300 to $355,900 a year. You’ll need to be an accomplished enterprise architect with a focus on machine learning (ML) design and generative AI. Your responsibilities will include overseeing the company’s ML and Gen AI initiatives, driving innovation, and ensuring solutions are aligned with business goals.
To qualify, you should have proven experience as an enterprise architect or in a similar senior technical role, with a track record of building large-scale AI products. You’ll need strong knowledge of ML algorithms, experience with ML frameworks like AWS Sagemaker or Google Vertex, and familiarity with generative AI technologies.
AI Infrastructure Engineer, Intel, Santa Clara
For this position, Intel offers up to $250,410 a year. You’ll be responsible for driving customers’ technical engagement, including design-in, onboarding, and architecting solutions. You will act as the technical expert on all accelerator products and work with customers on their data center design involving rack, power, network, storage, cooling, and CPU host components.
To be considered, you should have a deep understanding of key AI and data center technologies, knowledge of ecosystem players, and strong communication skills to convey complex concepts to various stakeholders.
Generative AI Engineer, Booz Allen Hamilton, McLean
This role offers a salary range from $106,200 to $242,000 a year. You’ll be tasked with identifying and developing AI, ML, and LLM solutions to address real-world business and operational problems. This includes architecting and building new generative AI products, collaborating with a community of experts, and delivering top-notch solutions.
The ideal candidate will have over six years of software engineering experience, experience leading teams, and expertise in integrating large language models or multi-modal models with applications. You should also have experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment.
For thousands of open tech roles across the U.S., check out the VentureBeat Job Board today.
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