What does it take to be hired by OpenAI and co. ?

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I'm a fresh graduate and I have some experience training big (GNN) models on an academic (SLURM) cluster. I dabbled a bit with Deepspeed and Megatron-LM but only insofar as I got them working for what I wanted to do.

Although I did some academic research I have not published anything and nothing LLM related anyway.

What would a successful applicants profile look like?

19g615l09zwrn5 · Accepted Answer

Can you look up recent hires there on LinkedIn and see their trajectory? That will give you a better idea of what it takes

raspberryint · Answer

The best way to build visibility for all roles not just OpenAI is to have a ton of related side projects that you’ve shipped.The actual interview itself is very technical, and you’ll need to be great at math.

kpolo · Answer

Remember there is a mix of roles at OpenAI. You will not be a candidate for a pure research role, but it is my understanding they are looking for a lot of research engineer type swes and people who can help make inference more efficient. Could be worth a shot-they are definitely expanding right now.

What does it take to be hired by OpenAI and co. ?

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