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How to Become Pochable

Renctly Meta and lot's of companies are poaching guys from other companines i want to check what do they know that guys from their own company dont it was experiecena and secrate saurce

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I’ll give you the tough love version since you asked for it 🔥 — if you want to be on the radar of big labs (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta FAIR, CZ Biohub, Arc Institute, Recursion, Inceptive), you need to move from being a “bioinformatics engineer” to being seen as a “frontier genomic AI researcher/engineer.” Right now, your profile is strong but reads as applied academic bioinformatics + solid engineering. That’s not yet poachable at the $500K+ tier. Here’s what you need to do in the next 12 months:


1. Move From User → Builder of Frontier ML

  • ✅ You’ve used LLMs with omics data.
  • ❌ But frontier labs will ask: what did you contribute to model architecture or training methods that nobody else has?

👉 What to do:

  • Learn transformer internals cold: attention math, rotary embeddings, mixture of experts, retrieval augmentation, gating, KV caching, training optimizations (ZeRO, LoRA, FlashAttention, DeepSpeed).
  • Implement at least one model from scratch (say, a genomic foundation model like DNABERT-2 or Enformer) and improve it.
  • Target: submit a preprint where you improve predictive accuracy on enhancer-promoter interactions / 3D genome folding using transformer innovations.

2. Scale Experience

Big labs poach people who’ve actually trained or deployed at scale:

  • Meta cares if you can manage multi-node, multi-GPU jobs with sharded weights, efficient checkpointing, and distributed data pipelines.
  • Your AWS experience is good, but running “20 GPUs for a pipeline” ≠ “2,000 GPUs for training.”

👉 What to do:

  • Get hands-on with distributed training frameworks: PyTorch FSDP, DeepSpeed, Ray.
  • Build a small cluster (could even be simulated with 4 GPUs on LambdaLabs or Paperspace) and run scaling experiments.
  • Blog/write about “Scaling genome foundation models: lessons from training Enformer on 1B parameters”. This gets recruiter eyes.

3. Push Into Frontier Bio + AI Fusion

Right now, “Genomic AI” is becoming hot (Nvidia, Recursion, Inceptive, Deep Genomics, Google Isomorphic Labs). The poachable edge comes from new architectures + biological insight.

👉 You should:

  • Focus on 3D genome + transformers: use Hi-C and ATAC-seq with attention-based models to predict enhancer-promoter loops.
  • Or protein + genome multimodal models: integrate sequence + structure + chromatin.
  • Or drug discovery pipeline with LLM reasoning: genome → target → compound → pathway.

This makes you not just another “pipeline bioinformatician” but someone leading the fusion of foundation models and biology.


4. Get Your Work Public

Poached engineers have signals:

  • OSS repos with 1k+ stars (e.g., “genomic LLM toolkit”)
  • Preprints that hit bioRxiv/Arxiv trending
  • Benchmarks that others use

👉 You should:

  • Open-source a genome transformer repo with clean, production-ready training code.
  • Publish at least one first-author preprint in the next 12 months that ties ML to genomic discovery.
  • Write technical blogs on Medium/LinkedIn/Twitter: “Why training genome-scale LLMs is harder than language LLMs”, “Scaling Hi-C analysis with transformers”.

5. Sharpen the Signaling Skills

Your projects are impressive, but recruiters at Anthropic or DeepMind don’t parse “built IDE with shadcn + FastAPI.” They care about:

  • Novel ML contributions (did you invent or adapt a new method?)
  • Scale (how many parameters? how big the dataset?)
  • Impact (does your model predict something nobody else’s does?)

👉 Rewrite your projects like:

  • Instead of “LLM integrated with ChIP-seq and Hi-C” → say “Developed a transformer model integrating 1B genomic tokens across ChIP-seq, RNA-seq, and Hi-C, improving enhancer-promoter interaction prediction by 14% over Enformer baseline.”
  • Quantify, benchmark, compare. That’s how engineers get poached.

6. Network Like It’s Part of the Job

  • Apply to fellowships (OpenAI Superalignment, Schmidt AI in Science, Biohub NYC fellowship).
  • Present at workshops (NeurIPS Genomics, ISMB ML track, RECOMB).
  • DM engineers on X/LinkedIn who work at Anthropic/DeepMind and share technical posts.

Recruiters follow technical noise → noise creates FOMO → FOMO creates offers.


🎯 TL;DR — One-Year Roadmap

If you want to be poachable:

  1. ML Depth → Know transformer guts + distributed training.
  2. Scale Cred → Run models at multi-GPU scale.
  3. Novel Contribution → Do 1-2 projects that combine new AI architectures + genome data.
  4. Public Signal → Preprint, OSS repo, technical blog.
  5. Narrative Shift → From “bioinformatics pipeline engineer” → “genomic AI architect.”

Do that, and in 12 months, you’ll have the profile that makes recruiters at DeepMind, Meta, or Inceptive DM you instead of the other way around.


⚡ Do you want me to map out a concrete 12-month learning & project roadmap (month-by-month) so you know exactly what to study/build/publish to hit this “poachable” tier?