We live in a time when there are many more alleged machine learning roles than real ones. I'd argue that if you are not spending >50% of your time in model dev

We live in a time when there are many more alleged machine learning roles than real ones. I'd argue that if you are not spending >50% of your time in model development and research then it is not a machine learning role. I'd also say that nothing necessitates the vast majority of an ML role being about data cleaning, etc. I'd suggest that indicates that the role is de facto not a machine learning role, although it may say so on paper.