Posted by Jason Jabbour, Kai Kleinbard and Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard University) Everyone wants to do the modeling work, but no one wants to do the engineering. If ML developers are like astronauts exploring new frontiers, ML systems engineers are the rocket scientists designing and building the engines that take them there. Introduction “Everyone wants to do modeling, but no one wants to do the engineering,” highlights a stark reality in the machine learning (ML) world: the allure of building sophisticated models often overshadows the critical task of engineering them into robust,…