Career Paths
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8 structured roadmaps — curated resources, official docs, and LDS practice problems in the exact dependency order that gets you hired.
Best entry point into data
Data Analyst
Extract insights and drive business decisions with SQL, Python & visualization
$100K
avg salary
23%
job growth
SQLPythonStatisticsTableau
6 stages4–6 months
View Roadmap Most versatile data role
Data Scientist
Turn raw data into decisions using ML, statistics and experimentation
$130K
avg salary
36%
job growth
PythonStatisticsPyTorchMLOps
8 stages9–14 months
View Roadmap Highest ML engineering pay
ML Engineer
Build, train and deploy machine learning models that scale to millions
$160K
avg salary
40%
job growth
PyTorchMLflowDockervLLM
8 stages9–13 months
View Roadmap Foundation of the data stack
Data Engineer
Design pipelines, lakehouses and the infrastructure every data team depends on
$135K
avg salary
25%
job growth
SQLdbtSparkKafka
8 stages10–14 months
View Roadmap Fastest-growing role in tech
AI Engineer
Ship LLM applications, RAG systems and production-grade AI agents
$175K
avg salary
45%+
job growth
LLM APIsRAGLangGraphFastAPI
8 stages6–10 months
View Roadmap Fastest salary growth in data
Analytics Engineer
Transform raw warehouse data into trusted, governed data models
$140K
avg salary
35%
job growth
dbtSQLSnowflakeBigQuery
7 stages8–12 months
View Roadmap 9.8× growth in 5 years
MLOps Engineer
Keep ML models alive in production with CI/CD, monitoring & infra
$160K
avg salary
9.8×
job growth
DockerKubernetesMLflowEvidently
8 stages10–14 months
View Roadmap Highest comp ceiling in tech
Quant Analyst
Price derivatives, build trading strategies and manage risk at top firms
$175K
avg salary
6–8%
job growth
PythonStochastic CalcQuantLibRisk
8 stages12–18 months
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