[marcyb5st]

Can you try to aim for something like an ML engineer to begin with? To avoid overloaded terms let me explain which kind of figure I think of. Specifically, I mean the kind of people that are in charge to take a proven ML architecture, try to apply it to the problem at hand, and potentially work on serving infrastructure to host that model (or plugging it into some Data pipeline for batch use cases).

There is a bunch of pure SWE work in the serving part and still requires some math background that, thanks for your education, you seem to have. This should allow you to get exposure to a lot of pure SWE-backend tasks which could allow for a full transfer into SWEland later on.

However, I am not sure how common these figures are in the industry. I work for a FAANG company as an ML Eng like I described, but I aware that not all companies have such people.

Finally, I wish you the best of luck in getting an EU passport!