This 1000%. I was an ML engineer, and to me it was far more about data management/cleaning than nitty gritty algorithms improvements, but that's definitely not

This 1000%. I was an ML engineer, and to me it was far more about data management/cleaning than nitty gritty algorithms improvements, but that's definitely not industry standard. I've also found "Product Engineer" job listings to range from essentially just a backend engineer to a product designer who codes.