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+1, I have a friend, math PhD that's been working on ML research 5+ years in London yet he has not been able to find any position.

The only jobs that he found he was highly over qualified or paid very little.

In any case, it doesn't look like there's this crazy rush to hire all ML talent, even the one that understand the math and technology deeply.

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> +1, I have a friend, math PhD that's been working on ML research 5+ years in London yet he has not been able to find any position.

Maybe people simply don't want math PhDs but something else? Since 1-2 years ago I started doing consulting/freelancing in the ML space, but more on the infrastructure, deployments and similar stuff, as a general purpose developer, and I have a waiting list of clients interested in more work, some of them even trying to recruit me to work for them full-time as well. I'm based in continental Europe, fwiw.

This only proves the original point which is that there is not much demand for actual machine learning expertise because that is only carried out in a small number of places and what demands there is is for the more basic software carpentry like infrastructure and operations rather than the actual technology and Engineering side of things

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