Will Machine Learning Engineers Exist in 10 Years? - KDnuggets

Note: this is an opinion piece, feel free to share your own opinion so we can continue to move our field in the right direction. In every field, we get specialized roles in the early days, replaced by the commonplace role over time. It seems like this is another case of just that. Machine Learning Engineer as a role is a consequence of the massive hype fueling buzzwords like AI and Data Science in the enterprise. In the early days of Machine Learning, it was a very necessary role.