My first thought was: This seems like a very logical next step in order to prepare for future broader market adoption of AR applications and AR glasses.
Being a sceptic about the latter at first I must say, I wish the technology would finally allow having a "normal" pair of glasses with high resolution, no cable attached, AR overlay screens.
Ditto. It seems Apple is preparing their users for the same UI that would be present on AR Glasses.
Rumor has it they ran an internal poll on whether their employees would purchase AI glasses which is their first step when developing a new product.
There’s also a role called being an algorithms engineer in standard tech companies (typically for lower level work like networking, embedded systems, graphics, or embedded systems) but the lack of an engineering background may hamstring you there. Engineers working in crypto also use a fair bit of algorithms knowledge.
I do low level work at a top company, and you only use algorithms knowledge on the job a couple of times a year at best.