| Great question! 1) Depend on your own goal. Its wise if you believe in the future, market appreciate ML eng higher than software eng (within same years exp) 2) Yes. I did (> 3 years now) 3) Start find the ML job Is there an ML engineering practice that isn't focused on building models but more on managing/deploying/scaling models? Yes. Companies who adopt ML at large scale usually need this. i.e. can I avoid learning all the maths underneath? Yes its possible as long as you are focusing on infrastructure. Eg: create/monitoring pipelines, models, etc. Noted: While you finding job, try to take professional ML engineering certification/program (Google, AWS, Azure, etc) - they will provide you hands-on lab experience with some case studies. The cost is super cheap |