Why the Line Between Data Engineer and ML Engineer Is Disappearing, And Why That's Your Cue to Cross It

The ML engineer role is changing. If you're a data engineer who's been watching from the sidelines, the window is opening wider than it's ever been. Something is shifting in how the best technology companies think about machine learning engineering. And if you've been paying attention, you have probably noticed it too. The shift is not loud or sudden. It is showing up in job descriptions, in how ML teams are structured, in the postmortems of failed AI projects, and in the quiet frustration of en