Career Galaxy / Data & AI
Machine Learning Engineer
You put models into production and keep them alive.
You bridge research and engineering, shipping models as reliable services and monitoring how they behave in the real world.
Mid levelHands on buildingDesigningEarning potentialFast growth
Entry
$105k
Median
$160k
Senior
$220k
Outlook: Growing much faster than average. Ranges are US estimates and vary by market and employer.
A day in the life
- Ship a model behind an API
- Fix a drift problem in production
- Cut inference costs in half
Skills that matter
PythonMLOpsDistributed systemsEvaluation
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