Launch your machine learning career with MIT

Launch your machine learning career with MIT

Discover five machine learning jobs and the MIT Open Learning programs and resources that will help kickstart your career.
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By Katherine Ouellette

Machine learning is one of the top three fastest-growing career fields with 86% of global organizations turning to this technology to transform businesses, according to the World Economic Forum. After building core machine learning skills, equip yourself with the knowledge for these five jobs with online courses and resources on MIT Learn, home to thousands of educational materials from MIT Open Learning.

Machine learning engineer

Machine learning engineers design, train, and deploy models that learn from data to solve real-world problems and integrate intelligent decision-making into products.

Fields

  • E-commerce
  • Finance
  • Healthcare
  • Technology

Courses

Reinforcement learning engineer

Reinforcement learning engineers build and train agents that learn to make decisions through trial and error to maximize long-term rewards in dynamic environments.

Fields

  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Gaming
  • Logistics
  • Robotics

Courses

AI model optimization engineer

AI model optimization engineers improve model efficiency by reducing size, latency, and power consumption for deployment on various hardware platforms.

Fields

  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Consumer electronics
  • Gaming
  • Logistics
  • Robotics

Courses

Machine learning infrastructure engineer

Machine learning infrastructure engineers develop and maintain scalable systems, pipelines, and tools that support data processing, model training, and deployment at scale.

Fields

  • AI platform development
  • Cloud computing
  • Enterprise software
  • Telecommunications

Courses

Deep learning researcher

Deep learning researchers explore novel neural network architectures and leverage modern computing hardware while investigating further improvements to these networks and the principles underlying their performance.

Fields

  • Academia
  • Research institutions
  • Technology

Courses

These courses and materials are available through MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, MITx MicroMasters, and MIT xPROⓇ, which are part of MIT Open Learning. OpenCourseWare offers free, online, open educational resources from more than 2,500 courses that span the MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum. MITx offers high-quality massive open online courses adapted from the MIT classroom for learners worldwide. MicroMasters Programs are graduate-level digital credentials from MIT that help learners accelerate their careers and Master’s degrees. MIT xPROⓇ provides professional development opportunities to a global audience via online courses and blended programs.


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