I finished my last Python job (the startup died due to Covid) in August and have been trying to land a Clojure job but dunno, without success, I’m turning to Python and ML again :man-shrugging:

ah sorry to hear that 😕 my company let go someone in my team due to restructuring and he’s also having a hard time finding a job because we were mostly doing ML with R and there’s like 0 jobs for that

I suspect the largest intersection of FP-inclined languages and data science jobs would be firms that leverage Scala + Spark.

https://clojurians.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/151924-data-science is where you may get more info on this.

I’ll echo @U7XR2PZFW on this. If you look for jobs that are heavy in spark and/or scala, you’re likely to find more FP minded teams. Python may still be the primary language used, but there will often be opportunities to use other languages as well.

I used to work in https://www.agoda.com/, and they have a big data science and engineering team. The main stack is Spark + Scala with a big emphasis on FP. Perhaps the only exception was developing deep learning algorithms, which was done in Python.

To be completely fair, it is a lower risk to have your ML team working in python. And doing ML+Data Science in Clojure does provide advantages, but you need to have a team of really good people and keep them.

I am setting up a team in a manufacturing company for product and production optimization with clojure and ML.

So cool, which stack are you going to use? Custom?

@U011J2CQT0F pure Clojure ML stack?

Mostly. As there are not too many complicated use cases at the moment.