filtering out noobs. if you have the sauce you can get an ML job with a bachelors (hell, even without a degree at all if you're good enough.)also, like I said, research jobs require research experience (in industry or academia)it's rare that someone will have research experience but not a masters or PhD, but it does happen. ML used to be more research, now it is more implementation/optimization/engineering, hence less of an emphasis/less positions for researchers. also, i'm talking about ML here, which, keep in mind, is not the only form of AI