{
  "series": "ASDI",
  "title": "AI-Specialist Demand Index — taxonomy",
  "version": "2.0",
  "updated": "2026-05-22",
  "source": "lib/classifiers/asdi.ts, lib/taxonomy/tiers.ts",
  "inclusionRules": [
    "Rule 1 (title): the title contains an explicit AI-specialist designation.",
    "Rule 2 (skill-stack): two or more Tier A skills appear.",
    "Rule 3 (combination): one Tier A skill plus two or more Tier B skills.",
    "Tier C skills never qualify a role for ASDI."
  ],
  "titleDesignations": [
    "AI Engineer",
    "ML Engineer / Machine Learning Engineer",
    "AI Research Scientist",
    "Applied AI Scientist",
    "AI Solutions Architect",
    "Computer Vision Engineer",
    "NLP Engineer",
    "Speech Recognition Engineer",
    "MLOps Engineer",
    "Prompt Engineer",
    "AI Product Manager",
    "AI Ethicist",
    "Responsible AI Lead",
    "Model Risk Analyst",
    "AI Governance Lead",
    "Chief AI Officer",
    "Head of AI",
    "Director of AI"
  ],
  "tierA": [
    "LLM fine-tuning",
    "RLHF",
    "RAG / retrieval augmented generation",
    "Prompt engineering",
    "LangChain / LlamaIndex / Haystack",
    "Vector databases",
    "Embeddings",
    "Transformer architecture",
    "Hugging Face",
    "Foundation model training",
    "Multimodal models",
    "Agent frameworks / agentic AI",
    "Computer vision",
    "Natural language processing",
    "Speech recognition",
    "Recommendation systems",
    "Reinforcement learning",
    "AI governance / responsible AI / AI safety",
    "Model explainability / interpretability",
    "MLOps",
    "Model deployment / serving",
    "Model monitoring / drift detection",
    "Feature stores",
    "Fine-tuning",
    "Distillation / quantisation",
    "PEFT / LoRA"
  ],
  "tierB": [
    "TensorFlow",
    "PyTorch",
    "JAX",
    "Keras",
    "scikit-learn",
    "SageMaker",
    "Vertex AI",
    "Azure ML",
    "Time-series forecasting",
    "CI/CD for ML"
  ],
  "tierC": [
    "Python",
    "R",
    "SQL",
    "Java",
    "C++",
    "Scala",
    "Go",
    "Rust",
    "ETL",
    "Spark",
    "Airflow",
    "dbt",
    "Data pipelines",
    "Data warehousing",
    "AWS",
    "GCP",
    "Azure (generic)",
    "Databricks (generic)",
    "Snowflake (generic)",
    "Kubernetes",
    "Docker"
  ]
}