Time To Rebrand - Machine Learning Engineer
Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on April 4, 2019, 1:09 PMTime to rebrand: if you are known as a Data Scientist, it is time to update it to Machine Learning Engineer. If you do just that, and you are hired, you are sure of extra 15-30% on your paycheck. Machine Learning Engineer is to modern Data Science what Industrial Chemistry is to Chemistry: the latter cohort is about the fundamentals, the former set is massively SCALING the product vision in the market. Sure - you still need to know the stuff!
“Several years ago one of the hottest jobs in the industry was data scientist,” Lorica said during his keynote yesterday. “And that’s still a very attractive job. Although I have to say the term data scientist has become muddled a little bit.”
Lorica said he has heard that some companies are beginning to call their business analysts — the folks who know SQL and drive business intelligence tools — data scientists. “There has been confusion about who to call data scientists,” he said.
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At the same time, new titles have begun to emerge for the folks who are skilled at wielding and implementing machine learning models, Lorica said. In particular, the title “machine learning engineer” started to pop up among companies in the San Francisco Bay Area several years ago, and has since spread
Time to rebrand: if you are known as a Data Scientist, it is time to update it to Machine Learning Engineer. If you do just that, and you are hired, you are sure of extra 15-30% on your paycheck. Machine Learning Engineer is to modern Data Science what Industrial Chemistry is to Chemistry: the latter cohort is about the fundamentals, the former set is massively SCALING the product vision in the market. Sure - you still need to know the stuff!
“Several years ago one of the hottest jobs in the industry was data scientist,” Lorica said during his keynote yesterday. “And that’s still a very attractive job. Although I have to say the term data scientist has become muddled a little bit.”
Lorica said he has heard that some companies are beginning to call their business analysts — the folks who know SQL and drive business intelligence tools — data scientists. “There has been confusion about who to call data scientists,” he said.
[...]
At the same time, new titles have begun to emerge for the folks who are skilled at wielding and implementing machine learning models, Lorica said. In particular, the title “machine learning engineer” started to pop up among companies in the San Francisco Bay Area several years ago, and has since spread