I work as a AI Researcher in a small AI lab. I earn 60+ lpa with 5 yoe. I don’t want to work in research anymore as I feel it’s too competitive, risky and draining the life out of me.

Is shifting to AI engineering a reasonable choice?
Would I still get paid this much?
How hard is it to make a switch at this level?
Any resources / experience of similar situation would also help.

Thanks

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Isnt AI Researcher is the top field everyone wants ? Heard AR from openAI hired by meta, google etc with hefty ctc's of 700-800 crores. But having mental peace/health should be top priority, but try to handle stress by staying there only. Give at least a try, if not then search for something similar, don't downgrade that's what I wanted to say.

Those are not in INR. And those are highly exceptional people 1 in 10000 where every year 1000 more phds come out in this field. At frontier level research you are competing with entire world where the idea you got now could have been already published or released a week back and your months of work is now gone.
Maybe a product based research could help than moving to ai engineering

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