Becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab
A software engineer shares their strategic and tactical approach to landing a research engineer role at a major AI lab like Mistral. The post emphasizes the importance of long-term career planning, portfolio building, and networking over short-term interview preparation.
Why it matters
Provides actionable career advice for professionals looking to enter the highly competitive field of artificial intelligence research.
Note : This is also published on Substack (where you can give me your mail if you want emails whenever I publish something).
A couple of days ago, I signed as a research engineer with Mistral, one of the few ML foundation model labs with more than a billion-dollar funding.
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