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Fang

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Fang
Apr 2, 2018 11 Comments

What the heck is machine learning engineer? Is it data scientist or what?

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  • They are glorified secretaries of data scientists. They will clean the data for the scientists, make sure the models are versioned, deployed correctly, A/B tests are running and collecting the right metrics. They will hardly get any credit for all the grunt and dirty work since the great and winning model was not developed by them. It’s the scientists that will steal the show almost always. If you’re lucky you might get mentioned in a paper along with them, but seriously don’t count on that.

    A MLE is the data janitor for scientists. Period. Nuff said.
    Apr 3, 2018 5
    • Google
      Red ranger

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      Red ranger
      I think the “data scientists” the original post is referring to are research scientists, not analytics DS, which is an abuse of name really- at google those would be called product analysts
      Apr 3, 2018
    • Amazon
      Pokebowl

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      Pokebowl
      I thought Google classified these folks as Business Analysts? Anyway, Facebook has Product Analysts roles too. What’s the difference?
      Apr 17, 2018
  • At Uber and FB they are software engineers with dual competency in ML. Hot stuff. There is no equivalent at microsoft. Data scientists at microsoft are actually data analysts.
    Apr 3, 2018 0
  • Fitbit
    cdUr66

    Go to company page Fitbit

    cdUr66
    Someone who is comfortable with productionalizing a data model. Most data scientists build proofs-of-concepts but can't (or won't want to) go through the process of making sure the model will scale. Enter the MLE
    Apr 2, 2018 0
  • Amazon / Eng
    fu

    Go to company page Amazon Eng

    PRE
    Google, Microsoft
    fu
    Do they gave such a role in Amazon?
    Apr 3, 2018 2
    • Amazon
      hde876ff

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      hde876ff
      At Amazon, job title of ml engineer exist but the job role is SDE itself and that looks appropriate.
      Apr 3, 2018
    • Amazon / Eng
      kzz

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      kzz
      Would an MLE be expected to build the models? i.e. train and tune them?

      Or is it just going to be data cleaning and RS assistant kind of work.
      Apr 29, 2018