Meta AI engineer on the résumé strategy that helped him land the role

Saurabh Khandelwal is a 28-year-old machine learning engineer based in Bellevue, Washington. He began his career as a founding ML engineer at a startup, interned at a hedge fund in the summer of 2022, joined Amazon in February 2023, and left Amazon in February 2025 to take a role at Meta.

At Meta he works on both research and implementation and says his role is more closely tied to product outcomes than his previous position. He described having more independence to try ideas, test them, and ship to production with appropriate guardrails, and less need for broad alignment across the team.

When applying, he built a résumé with a clear throughline: startup experience that showed end-to-end knowledge of machine-learning systems, paired with Big Tech experience that demonstrated the ability to scale those systems. He emphasized specific scaling details—such as the volume of tokens processed and requests serviced—to show he could operate at production scale.

United States, Bellevue, Washington

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