Will I get a software engineering job within 3 months?

May 28, 2024

You can also see this question on Manifold. Resolves YES if I receive an offer for a full-time job doing software engineering, ML engineering, and/or research engineering by September 1, 2024. Resolves NO if I do not receive an offer for a full-time job doing software engineering, ML engineering, and/or research engineering by September 1, 2024.

My plan for the next 3 months

Edit (2024/05/30): Based on feedback from my question on Manifold, I am updating my plan to be less ambitious and less broad. This means focusing on only a few projects and some simple contributions to well-known projects. Projects and contributions will be more “systems” flavored instead of “algorithms” flavored, focusing on GPU programming, model optimization, and MLOps. I will start networking now, start applying in 2 weeks, and start interviewing whenever I get interviews. Interview preparation will start now and continue for 3 months.

• Networking
  • Connect with 100 people on LinkedIn every week
  • Apply to 20-30 jobs every day
• Projects
  • Benchmark GPU kernels for common DL operations
  • Optimize a model using quantization and pruning
  • Train models on multiple GPUs using parallelism
• Contributions
  • PyTorch AO
  • OpenAI Triton
  • PyTorch XLA
• Interview preparation
  • Data structures and algorithms
    • Grokking
    • EPI
    • Mock assessments
  • System design (not necessary for new grad/entry-level)
    • Software design patterns
    • Machine learning system design
    • Distributed systems architecture