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The roles we train for — and what each one really does.

Not job-board boilerplate. Each role below is scoped from live KDigital placements: what you own, what a Tuesday looks like, and the evidence a panel asks you to show.

8
Roles we place into
2
Apex destinations
18 d
Median time to first offer
2,100+
Alumni-referred hires
Role catalog

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Two apex destinations, then the specialist roles that feed them.

What you own
End-to-end delivery of one customer’s agentic workflow — discovery to steady-state operation
Grounding and evaluation quality for every agent you deploy
The escalation path: what runs autonomously, what needs a human
A Tuesday in the role
9:30Standup with the customer’s ops lead; triage overnight agent traces
11:00Rework a retrieval prompt failing the grounding eval; re-run the suite
14:00Pair with client engineer on connector auth for the CRM tenant
16:30Ship autonomy step-up for two actions; log the approval rate
Evidence panels ask for
A deployed agent with a trace log and eval pass rate you can defend
A written autonomy decision — what you refused to automate and why
One rollback story: what broke and how you contained it
Band · ₹18–42 LPA Hiring demand · Very high MCP OTel GenAI Eval harness
Train for this: FDE program
Program → role map

Which track lands which role.

Program
Primary roles
Apex path
FDE, Solutions Engineer (AI), Delivery Lead
FDE
AI Product Owner, AI Program Manager, Value Lead
AI PO
Applied AI Engineer, ML Engineer, GenAI Developer
FDE
Full Stack Engineer, AI App Developer
FDE
Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer, Platform Data
FDE
LLMOps / AgentOps, SRE (AI), Cloud Engineer
FDE
AI Evaluation Engineer, SDET, Quality Lead
AI PO
Business Analyst, Product Analyst, Process Lead
AI PO
Platform Engineer, Platform Owner, ServiceNow FDE
FDE

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At a glance

Job Roles

What each applied AI role actually does day to day, and which Academy programme maps to it.