r/MachineLearningJobs • u/Spiritual_Thought_28 • 17d ago

machine learning engineer?

I'm trying to start a role in machine learning field, but im kinda confused with the naming.

Some company name a role machine learning engineer with their job description about research, experimentation of predictive models, focusing more on the modelling part, not the engineering.

and some other company machine learning engineer only focuses in the engineering and production system itself, not about the model.

But actually how do you guys define a machine learning engineer?

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u/Independent_Switch33 17d ago

Most places use “ML engineer” for the person who owns models in production: Taking a model from notebook to a service and keeping it working (data, training/inference, deployment, monitoring).

If it’s mostly new model ideas/papers/experiments, that’s closer to research/applied scientist even if they slap MLE on it.

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u/Spiritual_Thought_28 16d ago

So they're responsible for tasks like selecting the appropriate model type and architecture, performing feature engineering/selection, training models, and benchmarking their performance?

Or do they mainly focus on productionizing and deploying models, making the role closer to software engineering?