I want to be a machine learning engineer … what will my salary be?

The Role: Once relegated to science fiction, machine learning is a fast-growing field of computer science today. It focuses on designing algorithms that allow machines to make decisions based on information they gather themselves, finding patterns and insights in places they weren't explicitly programmed to look, mimicking human learning. Machine learning can be found in many products today, such as when streaming services recommend a new show or artist based on previous consumption habits, a text messaging application guesses the rest of a sentence or an autonomous vacuum cleaner swerves around the leg of a table that it crashed into earlier. In each example the machine has adjusted its behaviour based on information it has gathered on its own. It is up to a machine learning engineer to design the complex algorithms that enable machines to gather information and identify such patterns.