AI engineer vs data scientist

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#1

AI engineer is more of a software engineer where as a Data Scientist is more of a researcher! In any discipline scientist makes a discovery whereas an engineer is responsible for implementing it on a practical scale or for mass production.

So for example, an e-commerce company is interested in segmenting their customers, a data scientist will pave way in identifying the features / alogirthms that work best whereas an AI engineer will be responsible in deployment of the ML model building and prediction process in order to make real time predictions.

#2

My current job falls somewhere in between.

I work at a startup and do a lot of coding of some of the ML and ETL parts.

I also work on analyzing data, making reports and maps, and writing some internal documentation.

I enjoy both kinds of work since they require (somehow) different skills.

If you, like myself, want to work on both ends, try joining a startup.

That being said, I am starting to specialize a little bit more on ML engineering.

You will need to pick some specialty (could be a wide range) at some point.

Best of luck!