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The original was posted on /r/machinelearning by /u/Cranyx on 2025-01-17 21:15:06+00:00.

For the past few years I’ve had a job with the official title “machine learning engineer”, but as I hunt for other jobs online, I wonder if that’s actually accurate. Based on the experience requirements and responsibilities listed, it doesn’t seem to match up with what I do.

I have a master’s with a focus in ML (though that was pre LLM-boom, so things have changed a lot) but struggled to find work in my area pertaining to that out of college. Post-COVID when everyone went remote I got my current job. In it, I work on a team building and deploying software that utilize machine learning to accomplish tasks. However, I’m never the one actually building the learning models (there’s a researcher on our team who does that); just creating the systems around them. I’m actually pretty happy in my “machine learning adjacent” role, but should I be searching for different job titles to find something similar?