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Hiring Machine Learning Engineers Part 2 - Job spec and assignment

Part 1 discussed the emergence of the Machine Learning Engineer role, its distinction from the Data Scientist and the importance of organisations prioritising hiring the former against the latter when data infrastructure maturity is low. In Part 2, we will cover more practical considerations around the hiring process.

Get the job spec right

If you’ve spent a bit of time looking at Data Scientist job listings, you’ll have certainly encountered specs containing an incoherent mess of random buzzwords: