AI Engineer jobs will outnumber ML Engineer jobs within five years.
Shawn Wang (swyx), Latent Space
There are 10x as many ML Engineer jobs as AI Engineer jobs on Indeed, but the higher growth rate of “AI” leads me to predict that this ratio will invert in 5 years.
- Who
- Shawn Wang (swyx), Editor, Latent Space
- Made
- Jun 30, 2023 3 years ago
- Target
- Jun 30, 2028 in 1 year (stated as "in 5 years")
- Status
- Openin 20 months
- Source
- The Rise of the AI Engineer Primary: their own words · original recording
- Topics
- Jobs
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