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Specialties that pay

• Large language models

  Fine-tuning, evaluation and building products on top of them. The busiest corner of the field right now.

• Machine learning infrastructure

  Serving models reliably at scale. Less glamorous, extremely well paid, and always short of people.

• Computer vision

  Medical imaging, manufacturing inspection, self-driving. Deep and durable.

• Applied research

  The route that usually wants a doctorate, and where the top of the pay range sits.