本文深入探讨了当前AI领域的就业市场状况，指出招聘水平处于后疫情时代但尚未恢复到疫情高峰期。文章强调了职位的分布高度偏斜，并预告了未来将详细介绍AI领域的五大主要招聘角色及其差异、顶尖公司所需的核心技能、企业看重的经验以及工作机会的分布和薪酬构成。作者为订阅者提供了专属的职业发展资源，包括AMA/聊天、Discord频道以及简历指南等，旨在帮助机器学习工程师在AI浪潮中更好地规划职业生涯。

当前AI领域的就业市场呈现出一种特殊的“后疫情但未达疫情高峰”的状态，即每日发布的职位数量相当于疫情前市场火爆但未达顶峰的水平。然而，职位的分布存在显著的两极分化现象，具体表现将在后续内容中详细阐述。

文章作者将推出一系列付费的职业发展聚焦内容，包括对AI领域五大主要招聘角色的深度解析、顶尖公司看重的必备技能、企业青睐的经验类型，以及对就业机会和薪酬的全面分析，旨在为机器学习工程师提供有价值的职业指导。

作者为付费订阅者提供专属的增值服务，例如定期的AMA（Ask Me Anything）问答环节、Discord社区交流以及简历撰写指南等资源，以期为用户带来更直接的职业发展投资回报。作者也理解订阅模式的调整可能影响用户价值判断，并鼓励反馈。

作者在文章的开头部分，对AI领域内与软件工程（SWE）相关的职业发展方向进行了初步的规划，并预告了未来将围绕招聘市场现状、必备技能、公司偏好以及薪酬待遇等多个维度，为读者提供系列性的深度内容。

Welcome to the first of many career-focused articles within ML for SWEs! This week, I’ll be going over the strange reality of the current job market and tips I have for you. I’ll be going over the following topics in the near-future:

The five primary roles that are being hired for in AI and how they differ

The must-have skills top companies are looking for

The top experience companies are looking for

An overview of where job opportunities lie and the breakdown of compensation

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First, a quick update to ML for SWEs: I’ve decided to make the career-focused articles and resources paid. This means no technical resources will ever be paywalled and everyone will get access to articles that help you understand machine learning.

By paywalling the career resources, paid subscribers can have a more immediate return on investment and get more niche resources to further their career. I’ll still be doing paid-only AMA/chats (wanting to do this weekly) and paid subscribers will get access to my resources including Discord feeds and any other one-off resources I come up with (thinking about sharing my resume guide soon 🤔).

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The job market is is a weird place right now. Anyone who tells you the job market sucks is right, but it's worth taking a deeper look into things.

Right now, it seems hiring is at a post-COVID but pre-COVID boom hiring level. This means the jobs posted each day are equivalent to what was posted before COVID hiring caused the market to take off but after COVID itself caused a dip. At first, this doesn't seem terrible but the distribution of jobs is highly skewed in two ways:

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