There's a big difference between ML Eng jobs and ML Research jobs. Research, yeah you'd need a top PhD and many difficult years of study. Eng, far more attainab

There's a big difference between ML Eng jobs and ML Research jobs. Research, yeah you'd need a top PhD and many difficult years of study. Eng, far more attainable, but IIUC it's not exactly going to feel like you're working on some crazy cutting edge tech, you'll mostly be cleaning data and tuning pipelines.