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Why I quit working at an AI startup to join the Department of Energy

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The views expressed in this blog are entirely my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Energy or the United States Government. I recently changed jobs! In this post, I want to share about my experiences thus far on the journey from being a ML Engineer at an AI startup to working in the Department of Energy (via ORISE).1 Honestly, I did not do the appropriate due diligence when accepting my first job out of college. But I was fortunate to land at a well-funded, fast-paced, and innovative AI hardware accelerator startup as a machine learning engineer. During my time there, I was able to work on one of the handful of teams in the world that not only deployed and ran large language models but did so while building on top of an evolving hardware and compiler stack.2 While many of my friends in big tech who started their jobs around the same time as me talked about how they were still writing bash scripts 6 months in, I was given opportunities to take ownership

Why I quit working at an AI startup to join the Department of Energy Identifying impact arbitrage in working on climate Charles Yang Apr 06, 2023 11 Share The views expressed in this blog are entirely my own and do not necessarily represent the views of the Department of Energy or the United States Government. I recently changed jobs! Charles Yang @charlesxjyang in some personnel news: I’ve joined the Dept of Energy as an Energy Supply Chain Fellow (via ORISE) in the Office of Infrastructure! Send me your obscure supply chain tips and say hi if you’re in DC 👋 1:18 AM · Mar 16, 2023 2 Reposts

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