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Are machine learning engineers the new data scientists?

Published: March 4, 2019, 2:57 a.m.

For many data scientists, maintaining models and workflows in production is both a huge part of their job and not something they necessarily trained for if their background is more in statistics or machine learning methodology. Productionizing and maintaining data science code has more in common with software engineering than traditional science, and to reflect that, there\u2019s a new-ish role, and corresponding job title, that you should know about. It\u2019s called machine learning engineer, and it\u2019s what a lot of data scientists are becoming.\n\nRelevant links:\nhttps://medium.com/@tomaszdudek/but-what-is-this-machine-learning-engineer-actually-doing-18464d5c699\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2019/02/04/why-there-will-be-no-data-science-job-titles-by-2029/#64e3906c3a8f