Is it possible to work as a researcher (non-assistant role) in AI field with master’s degree?

Why wouldn’t it be?

@jeeper

As far as I searched online, I found an answer that sounds something like this: “if you want to work as a researcher in the private industry (e.g. MAANG), then it’s possible, but really hard. In the other hand, If we are talking about academic environment, then no, Phd is a must”.

Anyways, I thought I should ask people on DevRrant.

@yehaaw I would think there’s always a possibility that experience overcomes the degree requirement. However, the only way to get such experience would be at MANGA levels. The number of people at the cross section of people who have that level of experience, no PhD, and want to almost certainly take a pay cut to leave MANGA is virtually zero people.

You can, but they most likely want you to match up with experience. Oh, also even academia gets research assistants; that albeit most of them are master students, sometimes they are people with just a bachelor who want to do the job. But if you do proper research, in most educationally-modern places like Germany, you are guaranteed to be given a PhD after a few years. (ofc, you have to write a dissertation and defend it too. It has some paperwork, particularly if you're working in industry you will have to find an academic supervisor and a panel of judges for your defense, as well as organizing release of material —data and code and dissertation— through company consent)