The No. 1 job in America that pays over $100,000 a year

MSN ^ | 01/28/2018 | Quentin Fottrell

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As companies try to understand consumer behavior, data scientists are in high demand. Boasting a median base salary of $110,000 and a job-satisfaction score of 4.4 out of 5, data scientist was ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor’s “Best Jobs in America” list in 2016, 2017 and 2018. The report released this week is based on the number of job openings, salary and overall job satisfaction. It was followed by devops engineers ($110,000 a year), which combines development, testing and operations. Nearly 40% of people, including 56% of millennials, are job hunting it added.

But data scientists have competition. A separate report released by the U.S. News & World Report lists software developer as the No. 1 job based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Like data scientist, a software developer has a median annual salary of over $100,000 per year and are employed in computer systems design, app design, manufacturing and finance. The study looked at work-life balance, salary and other areas of career development. (Dentist was No. 2, followed by physician assistant and nurse practitioner.)

Data scientists and software developers use programming language such as Python (sought after in 72% of Glassdoor data scientist job postings), followed by R (64%), SQL (51%), Hadoop (39%) and the more well-known Java (33%). Core data scientists who are likely to be proficient in Python, R and SQL and estimated to make $116,203 a year. Google (GOOG) Aetna (AET) and Microsoft (MSFT) typically hire these.

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“There are already AI projects designing the firmware and software for that infrastructure as well as robot installers connected to AI bots in the cloud to assist with any unforeseen situation.”

Where?

I just left Intel and it’s not happening there, or at it’s newly acquired sub Altera.

And I know for a fact it’s not happening at Cisco, the worlds largest network equipment manufacturer.

So, just where is this happening? In your imagination?

[Wuli]

IBM, Qualcom and a few dozen small companies with big company investment and interest in what they are developing.

A ton of “firmware” began as software and moved from software to software-on-a-chip (firmware).

AI is already writing code, software, and increasingly doing it as expert as the experts (Google, IBM, Microsoft and many others). Cicso has AI code doing expert services analyzing complex networks, identifying problems, “computing” solutions and relieving human network resources. It will not be a massive leap in hardware before that AI (improved by then) is embedded in the CISCO network equipment itself, relieving the humans that now run it as “service”.

By mid-decade hence some top firms will be announcing major systems (in “smart devices” most likely) where AI figured out the complex connections of “multiple firmware components on a chip”. The chips will not only be designed by AI they will incorporate AI and some aspect of continual “machine learning” within them.