Jillian Hamilton, has worked in a variety of Program Management roles for multiple Federal Government contractors says, Does a career in Machine Learning seem appealing to you?
The machine learning engineer field entered the scene when software engineering got cozy with data science. While the role of the data scientist feels similar to machine learning engineer, the two are not the same. However, in order for an ML engineer to do their job, they need data and models from a data scientist. Then, the magic of scaling out the data begins...
...The ML engineer field is in growth mode, so it’s important to not be afraid of making mistakes.
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