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If you work in embedded, start to shift your focus into IoT. Internet-connected systems are the ones producing and storing the data necessary for data science/ML to happen. Experience with the data ingestion layer IoT cloud platforms (AWS IoT, GE Predix, Azure IoT Hub) could help you transition to higher level data analysis roles, especially if you can demonstrate your domain expertise with embedded systems. If you are working with Matlab along w/ Simulink, you should check out ThingSpeak: https://www.mathworks.com/products/thingspeak.html

If you are working deep embedded/legacy products or purely on the hardware side, you may need to grab an ML course/certificate to signal your interest, or just network really hard. Having embedded engineering skills can't hurt though.