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Research engineers turn theory, pseudocode, or smaller proof of concepts into a more fleshed out implementation. Once a research project exceeds a few thousand lines of code it becomes useful to have dedicated engineers doing architectural design, owning unit testing / backtesting frameworks, code quality control, etc.

Source: was a research engineer at Intel Labs several years ago.

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While this is true, it is also sometimes merely based on your degree. I was a "Research Engineer" doing the same work as "Research Scientists" because my degree was in "Computer Engineering" not "Computer Science."

So, YMMV.

(Another one) For DeepMind case, in order to be Research Scientists you have to have or about to have a PhD degree.

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