Posts tagged data scientist.
Read the people, not the postings: national-lab data scientists build ML like Big Tech, while civil-service agency data scientists do statistics-and-reporting. Two different jobs under one title — and neither ever touches frontier tech.
We analyzed 3,277 job postings for Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and AI Engineers across four seniority levels. The biggest compensation jump isn't between mid and senior — it's Senior to Staff, where ML Engineers earn a median $59K more. And most 'hot' AI skills (Generative AI, prompt engineering) disappear as premium drivers once you control for level. Here's the data.
We analyzed 77,735 job postings and found that the Bay Area tech market is statistically distinct from everywhere else. Rest-of-US and non-US skill profiles are indistinguishable for Data Scientists and AI Engineers. Here's what the chi-square tests reveal.
AI Engineering was recently named the #1 fastest growing job by LinkedIn, with data science cited as one of the top roles transitioned from. Meanwhile, every data scientist is in the middle of at best an identity crisis…
