Beginner
Noob Dev AI Practitioner
Prompt, parse, and ship your first working AI feature — no experience needed.
Labs soon
Career roles
Train for the job,
not just the topic.
Every other track teaches a subject. Roles teach a job — pick a discipline and climb the exact ladder employers hire for, with role-realistic task labs at every tier.
- 1Intern
- 2Associate
- 3Engineer
- 4Senior
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The Noob Dev ladders
Our flagship end-to-end paths. Start as a Practitioner with zero experience and climb all the way to Expert — each rung a little harder than the last.
Noob Dev AI Engineer
4 levelsFrom your first prompt to shipping production agents — the complete Modelplay AI path, start to mastery.
Intermediate
Noob Dev AI Associate
Structured outputs, retrieval, and evals you can actually trust.
Labs soon
Advanced
Noob Dev AI Architect
Design agentic systems — tools, RAG, and multi-step pipelines that hold up.
Labs soon
Expert
Noob Dev AI Expert
Own the AI stack end to end — cost, latency, safety, and scale.
Labs soon
Noob Dev ML Engineer
4 levelsFrom your first trained model to owning ML in production — the complete Modelplay ML path, start to mastery.
Beginner
Noob Dev ML Practitioner
Clean data and train your first models — start from zero.
Labs soon
Intermediate
Noob Dev ML Associate
Own a model end to end: features, validation, and honest metrics.
Labs soon
Advanced
Noob Dev ML Architect
Design pipelines that scale — tuning, deployment, and real trade-offs.
Labs soon
Expert
Noob Dev ML Expert
Lead the hard calls — architecture, reliability, and models in production.
Labs soon
Explore every discipline
Prefer to train for a specific job title? Pick a discipline and climb the exact Intern → Senior ladder employers hire for.
Machine Learning
4 rolesClimb the ML ladder employers hire for — from your first supervised reps to owning models in production.
Intern
Intern Machine Learning Engineer
Clean data, train your first models, and read a metric like a pro.
Labs soon
Associate
Associate Machine Learning Engineer
Own a model end to end — features, validation, and honest evaluation.
Labs soon
Engineer
Machine Learning Engineer
Ship models that hold up — tuning, pipelines, and real trade-offs.
Labs soon
Senior
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Lead the hard calls — architecture, scale, and production reliability.
Labs soon
Artificial Intelligence
4 rolesBuild with real models — from your first prompt to shipping agentic AI features that ship.
Intern
Intern AI Engineer
Prompt, parse, and wire a model into a working first feature.
Free
Associate
Associate AI Engineer
Structured outputs, retrieval, and evals you can actually trust.
Labs soon
Engineer
AI Engineer
Tools, agents, and RAG systems that do real work reliably.
Labs soon
Senior
Senior AI Engineer
Own the AI stack — cost, latency, safety, and architecture at scale.
Labs soon
Data Analyst
4 rolesTurn raw data into decisions — from your first chart to owning the metrics a business runs on.
Intern
Intern Data Analyst
Pull, clean, and chart data to answer real business questions.
Labs soon
Associate
Associate Data Analyst
Own dashboards and metrics stakeholders actually rely on.
Labs soon
Engineer
Data Analyst
Turn messy data into decisions with sharp SQL and clear storytelling.
Labs soon
Senior
Senior Data Analyst
Lead analytics strategy and the data-driven culture around it.
Labs soon
AI & Data Science
4 rolesDo the science behind the models — from your first experiment to setting the research bar.
Intern
Intern Data Scientist
Explore data, run experiments, and validate your first hypotheses.
Labs soon
Associate
Associate Data Scientist
Build models and tell the story the numbers actually support.
Labs soon
Engineer
Data Scientist
Own ML experiments end to end — from question to production.
Labs soon
Senior
Senior Data Scientist
Set the research direction and the bar for scientific rigor.
Labs soon
Data Engineering
4 rolesBuild the pipelines everything else runs on — from your first ETL to owning the data platform.
Intern
Intern Data Engineer
Move and shape data through your first real pipelines.
Labs soon
Associate
Associate Data Engineer
Build reliable ETL and the warehouse teams query every day.
Labs soon
Engineer
Data Engineer
Design pipelines that scale, stay fresh, and never silently break.
Labs soon
Senior
Senior Data Engineer
Own the data platform — architecture, cost, and reliability.
Labs soon
Quality Assurance
4 rolesMake software you can trust — from your first test case to owning quality across releases.
Intern
Intern QA Engineer
Write test cases and catch bugs before users ever do.
Labs soon
Associate
Associate QA Engineer
Automate regression suites and own release confidence.
Labs soon
Engineer
QA Engineer
Build test frameworks and bake quality into the pipeline.
Labs soon
Senior
Senior QA Engineer
Lead quality strategy across teams, services, and releases.
Labs soon
Cyber Security
4 rolesDefend the stack — from spotting your first vulnerability to owning the security posture.
Intern
Intern Security Analyst
Spot vulnerabilities and learn to think like an attacker.
Labs soon
Associate
Associate Security Engineer
Harden systems and respond to real security incidents.
Labs soon
Engineer
Security Engineer
Design defenses, run pentests, and secure the whole stack.
Labs soon
Senior
Senior Security Engineer
Own the security posture — threat modeling at real scale.
Labs soon
Want first dibs when Roles drops?
We’re building role-realistic task labs for every tier. Start on the live challenge tracks today — your progress carries over when Roles launches.