Machine Learning Engineering in Action

1 What is a machine learning engineer?

This chapter covers

• The scope of knowledge and skills for machine learning engineers
• The six fundamental aspects of applied machine learning project work
• The functional purpose of machine learning engineers

Machine learning (ML) is exciting. It’s fun, challenging, creative, and intellectually stimulating. It also makes money for companies, autonomously tackles overwhelmingly large tasks, and removes the burdensome task of monotonous work from people who would rather be doing something else.

ML is also ludicrously complex. From thousands of algorithms, hundreds of open source packages, and a profession of practitioners required to have a diverse skill set ranging from data engineering (DE) to advanced statistical ...