Lambert Liu, 22, says being a holistic engineer who understands system design can help secure a job at an AI startup.

Janvi Kalra, an AI engineer at OpenAI, said students should intern at Big Tech firms and startups. The skills you learn will be wildly different, she said on an episode of The Pragmatic Engineer.

Jigar Bhati, a software engineer at OpenAI, said building up work experience and finding an opening that matches it is key to getting hired.