How to become an AI engineer in 2026, with Joana Fonseca | Builders
What does it take to build a career in AI when the technology changes faster than any university curriculum can keep up?
Joana Fonseca is an AI engineer at TRATON with a PhD in machine learning and robotics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Yet even after a bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD, she had never learned or used generative AI. When she finished her PhD, she had to learn transformers and generative AI herself. In this episode of Builders, Joana talks about the foundations AI engineers need, why continuous learning is unavoidable, and what separates someone who can build an…
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