It depends on your experience. To be honest I don't think majority of ml engineers out there had a degree in ml engineering. It is true that without degree for

It depends on your experience. To be honest I don't think majority of ml engineers out there had a degree in ml engineering. It is true that without degree for some sort of certificate it will not be easy to get your first job. But I guarantee that after your first job your life as ml engineer will be much easier. You will need to show expertise about machine learning, big data tools like spark, databases, Linux and shell programming.