Machine learning industry job requirements used to be myopic, but now it feels impossible. Anyone else seeing this? [D]

Today I was just casually browsing some jobs with tags [machine learning] on one of those large popular job-sites. What I am seeing really had me astonished. I want to check with Reddit whether I am hallucinating.

A non-FAANG/non-Deepmind/.../non-Anthropic industrial automation company is hiring people to work on ML for robots (the latest hot topic). Fine. But then I saw their laundry list of job requirements ("you must meet these"), which include:

• Deep expertise in LLM, VLA, VLM, action transformers
• Deep expertise in robot dynamic and kinematic modelling (forward, inverse kinematics, trajectory generation, planning), sensor fusion, model predictive control, reinforcement learning
• Deep expertise in CUDA GPU programming, FPGA hardware acceleration
• Familiarity with latest software engineering best practices in Python3 and C++23
• Familiarity in one or more of popular ML framework
• Have top publications in one or more typical ML and robotics conferences

This is before they go off listing familiarity with a set of standard softwares/simulators, one of which is called RLib, something I've never heard of. Oh and of course they had these 3+, 5+ "non-academic" experience requirements. I forgot which is which.

I was just sitting there confused. Then I checked several more jobs, and it was more of the same (except for some banks).

I remember there was a talk by Terence Tao where he divided mathematician into two camps, the analysts and algebraists. He said even among top mathematicians, it is exceedingly rare to find someone who possess deep expertise in both, as each tends to require a different mode of thinking and each is infinitely deep in terms of specialization, theory and insights.

And here we have a bunch of ML companies treating these infinitely deep academic fields ranging from robot dynamic and kinematic modelling to large language models like some bizarre MMORPG video-game scenario where you need to be a warrior archer warlock who is also a shaman priest mage.

Who are they even hiring, lol?