Most people in this field who are able to get jobs in this field have an undergrad in computer science, and a masters degree. It’s applied math + computer science, which is different from being a web developer. There are no people with these degrees who are struggling to find work currently, and they command relatively high salaries at their jobs (>150k USD guaranteed).

You might be able to find a regular dev who could put this together, but if something doesn’t work out of the box the chances that they’ll know how to address the problem is pretty much zero because it’s not just a coding issue. We don’t even look at resumes that don’t have a masters degree because it really is important that the candidate can do all kinds of math, knows the family of algorithms, how to train DL models well, can explain why something did or didn’t work, can do analysis of data and results, and can also write efficient code. LOL it’s a stressful field 😝