At present, a lot of work within the AI space is research-based. As a result, many organizations will be digging into your background to ascertain what kind of experience you have in this area. If you authored or co-authored research papers or have been supervised by industry leaders, make sure to share that information.

In fact, take it a step further and have a summary of your research experience along with your research papers ready to share with the interviewing panel.

However, if you don’t have any formal research experience, have an explanation ready. For example, you can talk about how your AI journey started as a weekend hobby and grew into so much more within a space of two or three years.