I used both Matlab and Python (tensorflow) during my masters research involving image processing. Matlab was great for doing some signal analysis, preprocessing tasks, and even in some cases whipping up simple baseline ML models. I’d export that data and use tensorflow for any deep learning tasks. Like others have said, python is definitely way more used in industry so it’s way better to know tensorflow/PyTorch. The average job will require python and not Matlab. The oddly specific job probably requires both.