Also called: Perception Engineer, Image Processing Engineer
Teaches computers to understand images and video, for self-driving cars, medical scans, factory inspection, and phones.
You train a model to spot cracked parts on an assembly line, then debug why it fails under fluorescent light. Your work might help a robot see or a doctor catch a tumor sooner.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's required; master's or PhD common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics.
Growing much faster than average. Strong demand in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and medical imaging.
Medium risk for 10 years. Big pretrained vision models replace much custom model building; hard real-world deployments in cars and medicine stay human-led.
Classes: AP Calculus, AP Physics, AP Computer Science A.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1252.
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