The Difference Between Data Scientists and ML Engineers

Responsibilities, Expertise, and Salary Expectations

Kurtis Pykes
Towards Data Science
5 min readJul 22, 2021

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There’s often confusion between the roles of Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers. Although they certainly work together amicably and enjoy some overlap concerning expertise and experience, the two roles serve quite different purposes.

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I ghostwrite educational email courses for entrepreneurs in AI. Self-taught machine learning practitioner. Been a writer in AI since 2020.