[golly_ned]

I'm from the ML platforms and systems domain.

I strongly recommend it if one's able. It's a bit more stable than a quickly evolving ML/DL/AI ecosystem or frontend ecosystem. The skills are more durable. It repays deep investment and knowledge.

It allows you to straddle both the distributed systems and services domain and the ML domain.

ML systems problems are extremely interesting since they require extremes of compute, storage, network, and latency, in very different parts of the model lifecycle. Its unique problem is the scarcity and cost of hardware accelerators.

I've worked eleven years in the space and rarely have had the desire to leave.

[mathisfun123]

> rarely have had the desire to leave.

I'm currently a GPU compiler engineer in FAANG specializing in compute (not graphics). So clearly ML systems. Prior I have worked at every level of stack above and during my PhD I worked below (RTL). I hate it and think about leaving every day (I stay because of the money and like wtf else am I gonna do lol).

[saagarjha]

Are you willing to take a pay cut?

[mathisfun123]

No? Why would I? Like to what end?

[saagarjha]

> I hate it and think about leaving every day

[mathisfun123]

most people hate their jobs; some people are just lucky enough that their jobs compensate them well enough for the emotional labor as well as the physical labor. also i have worked other SWE jobs (as already mentioned) and i've hated them all.

[saagarjha]

You can also not hate your job and be paid fairly well for it