Machine Learning Engineer versus Software Engineer

What is the difference between these two roles and how they think?

Nathan Lambert
Towards Data Science
5 min readMar 31, 2020

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Software engineering has blown up to encompass more than 1million employees in the US as of 2018 and is not forecasted to slow in growth. Next to come is the machine learning engineer, who takes an automation or decision making problem and applies cutting edge tools to it.

Machine learning is the study of making decisions under uncertainty: given a training…

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