Machine Learning Isn’t As Sexy As You Think It Is

Perspective of a ML engineer

Machine Learning (ML) engineers have (unofficially) claimed the crown of being (one of) “The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century”, overtaking the previous champions — Data Scientists.

Even though ML engineers take on a multitude of roles depending on who you ask in which company, a ML engineer’s role still largely revolves around this — deploying ML models to production. While this is what I personally deem as the “sexy” part of the job, ML engineers often have to do many other…