Data & AI

Machine Learning Engineer

Explore how machine-learning engineers develop, evaluate and maintain systems that learn patterns from data.

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What does this career involve?

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Work you might explore

  • Turning a practical question into a measurable learning task
  • Preparing datasets and engineering useful features
  • Training and comparing models
  • Making models reproducible, efficient and observable

What skills can help?

  • Statistics and probability
  • Python programming
  • Model evaluation
  • Experiment design

Courses to explore

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Projects students can try

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PROJECT 01

Predict a public dataset outcome and explain errors

PROJECT 02

Build an image classifier with an evaluation report

PROJECT 03

Track model experiments in a reproducible notebook

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