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AI Engineer Seeks Advice on Overcoming Career Hurdles

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An AI research engineer with three years of experience in RL and LLMs is facing significant career hurdles, including rejections from PhD programs and research engineer roles, and ghosting on internship applications. Despite having a publication, a patent, and experience in communications engineering, the engineer believes their location and university brand are major bottlenecks. They are contemplating pursuing a second Master's degree abroad to improve their prospects but are seeking alternative strategies. AI

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AI Engineer Seeks Advice on Overcoming Career Hurdles

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  1. r/MachineLearning TIER_1 English(EN) · /u/Fit_Caterpillar4434 ·

    Is a second MSc worth it? [D]

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’m an AI research engineer based in Africa with about 3 YoEs in RL, LLMs, post-training, and systems efficiency (CUDA/vLLM). However, on a smaller scale because of compute limits. My undergrad and Master’s are both in communications engineering.…

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