I lead a Ml Product team and in my experience no they’re not. The academic types are very proficient at research and exploratory data analysis. They’ll whip up

I lead a Ml Product team and in my experience no they’re not. The academic types are very proficient at research and exploratory data analysis. They’ll whip up a Jupyter in no time but they struggle understanding a live production system. This is where an ML engineer comes into play, they’re not so academic but way better at writing production code