Aishwarya Srinivasan | Data & AI | LinkedIn Top Voice on Instagram: "Data Engineer vs AI Engineer. Here’s what each role does, what they earn, and how to choose. What You Actually Do: Data Engineer: Pipelines and reliability. Ingest, transform, model, validate. If data breaks, everything downstream breaks. Building data foundations that analytics, ML, and product teams rely on. AI Engineer: Models in production. RAG systems, agent evaluations. If the model is slow, wrong, or unsafe, you fix it.