7 Mid-Career Tech Workers Pivoted to AI Safety Full-Time — Almost None Found a Job
AaronBergman18 · x · 2026-11-09
An AI safety practitioner reveals that in a groupchat of 7 mid-career tech professionals who all decided in Aug/Sept to focus full-time on pivoting into AI Safety, almost no one has found any position yet. The takeaway: even experienced engineers going all-in are finding AI Safety roles surprisingly tough to break into.
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