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Cloud and SaaS platforms Careers

Explore 6 career paths in the Cloud and SaaS platforms industry. Compare salaries, AI risk, and future demand to plan your career transition.

6 Roles

9.1 Avg Demand

17% Avg AI Risk

6 Remote-Friendly

AI Engineering Advanced

AI Runtime Engineer

AI Runtime Engineers are the architects behind reliable, high-performance AI systems in production - owning model deployment, infe…

Demand 9.2/10

AI Risk 15%

Salary $120,000-$280,000/yr

Production model serving and inference pipeline architectureGPU/TPU resource management, scheduling, and utilization optimizationContainer orchestration with Kubernetes for AI workloads (including GPU-aware scheduling)Model quantization techniques (GPTQ, AWQ, GGUF, INT8/INT4) and their runtime trade-offs +8

Remote Requires Coding 6mo

AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Penetration Testing Automation Specialist

An AI Penetration Testing Automation Specialist designs, builds, and operates intelligent systems that autonomously discover, vali…

Demand 9.2/10

AI Risk 15%

Salary $120,000-$210,000/yr

Network and web application penetration testing (OWASP, PTES, NIST 800-115)LLM and prompt injection attack methodology (indirect prompt injection, jailbreaking, data exfiltration via AI)Python scripting for security automation and exploit developmentAI agent orchestration using LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI for multi-step attack simulation +8

Remote Requires Coding 12mo

AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Blue Team Automation Specialist

An AI Blue Team Automation Specialist designs, builds, and operates automated defense systems that protect AI infrastructure, LLM-…

Demand 9.2/10

AI Risk 15%

Salary $120,000-$210,000/yr

Adversarial machine learning fundamentals (evasion, poisoning, extraction, inference attacks)LLM security: prompt injection detection, jailbreak taxonomy, output filteringSecurity automation and orchestration (SOAR) for AI-specific alertingPython development for building custom detection and response tooling +8

Remote Requires Coding 9mo

AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Security Code Review Specialist

An AI Security Code Review Specialist audits source code, model pipelines, and infrastructure configurations for vulnerabilities u…

Demand 9.1/10

AI Risk 18%

Salary $125,000-$210,000/yr

Static application security testing (SAST) on Python, TypeScript, and Go codebasesOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications - identification, exploitation patterns, and remediationPrompt injection detection, adversarial input crafting, and output sanitization reviewLangChain, LlamaIndex, and agent orchestration framework security assessment +8

Remote Requires Coding 12mo

AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Identity & Access Management Specialist

An AI Identity & Access Management Specialist designs, implements, and governs the authentication, authorization, and privilege fr…

Demand 9.1/10

AI Risk 15%

Salary $120,000-$210,000/yr

Identity protocol mastery (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML 2.0, SCIM, JWT/JWK lifecycle)AI agent identity modeling - defining machine principals, service accounts, and agent personasPolicy-as-code authoring using OPA/Rego, AWS Cedar, or HashiCorp SentinelZero-trust architecture design for AI pipelines and multi-agent systems +8

Remote Requires Coding 9mo

AI Operations & Logistics Intermediate

AI Resource Allocation Specialist

An AI Resource Allocation Specialist optimizes the deployment, cost, and performance of AI infrastructure across an organization -…

Demand 8.7/10

AI Risk 25%

Salary $105,000-$175,000/yr

GPU cluster management and utilization optimizationCloud cost modeling and reserved/spot instance strategy (AWS, GCP, Azure)LLM inference cost analysis (token economics, batch vs. streaming, caching strategies)Kubernetes orchestration for ML workloads (KubeFlow, KServe, Ray Serve) +8

Remote Requires Coding 8mo