Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What this playbook covers A frontier AI lab is one of the handful of organisations training models at the outer edge of what is possible — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind and their close peers. The Research Engineer, or RE, is the person who makes the research real: writing the training and evaluation code, keeping the infrastructure honest, and turning a scientist's idea into an experiment that runs at scale. It is one of the most competitive roles in technology, and one of the best paid. DeepMind's acceptance rate sits below one per cent. This guide is written for AI engineers in India and the UK who want a serious, unromantic view of how to get in. It covers which role is actually you, the rubric these labs reward, the interview loop lab by lab, how to build proof-of-work that…
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