Anecdotally, I'm seeing many people get hired by just building things in the wild. There's a ton of open source work going on still in the early stages, everything from inference servers to training libraries to MLOps frameworks and beyond. Being a solid contributor to any of those projects, or starting an individual project is a good start I think.

(As an aside, I also think "job in AI" is a little to abstract to comment on in many ways since the term is so overloaded in 2024)