Landing Your First AI/ML Role

Landing Your First AI/ML Role

Author: Women in AI Ethics July 26, 2022 Duration: 26:12

Ready for a career in Responsible AI/ML? Join this session to learn about the diverse jobs available in corporate and academia, get tips from experienced recruiters on how to land your dream job, pivot from your current non-AI role, transition from academia to corporate sector, and how to assess your potential work environment.

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Ebitie Amughan is the Senior Recruiting Operations Program Manager for Inclusive Hiring at Pinterest. She brings her unique talent solutions to business partners and hiring teams through her creative and strategic workflows. With her recruiting expertise, she has managed and launched programs and processes that optimize and simplify the hiring process to ensure the organizations meet their goals and plan. Prior to her promotion to a Senior Program Manager role, she was a Technical Recruiter for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence at Pinterest in charge of recruiting senior engineers in building a discovery engine. Ebitie’s deep knowledge of recruiting has led her to work with distinguished companies like Microsoft and the National Board of Advisors for the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona as a newly inducted board member.

Jessica Yrani is a lead technical recruiter focusing on Analytics and ML hiring at Roblox. Before joining Roblox, she was a lead recruiter at Pinterest, partnering with engineering leadership to build Machine Learning teams within the Core and Monetization organization. Throughout Jessica’s decade of experience, she has partnered with technical teams to create inclusive hiring strategies.

Tulsi Parida is the Global Director of Government Data Solutions at Visa. Her work is at the intersection of payments data and government and she develops innovative data solutions for governments looking to use spend insights to inform their policy-making and decisions. She brings a decade of experience at the intersection of tech, society, and business, with a commitment to reducing digital inequality and promoting responsible and inclusive technology. Prior to Visa, she led teams at various startups working to bridge digital divides in literacy education both in the US and in India. Tulsi holds a BSc in Education & Social Policy, Economics from Northwestern University and a dual degree MSc /MBA in Tech & Society from the University of Oxford. Recently, Tulsi has won the global 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics and Tech Women 100 awards in the UK.


There’s a lot of talk about responsible artificial intelligence, but what does that work actually look like on the ground? AI Ethics Diaries: Keeping it Real cuts through the theoretical debates to bring you candid conversations with the women who are building, auditing, and governing AI systems right now. Created by the Women in AI Ethics community, this podcast serves as a direct line to practitioners who are navigating the complex, often messy realities of creating equitable technology. Each episode is a deep dive into a personal career journey, offering more than just abstract principles. You’ll hear firsthand accounts of the challenges and triumphs encountered while pushing for tangible change inside companies, research labs, and policy rooms. These are unfiltered discussions-no corporate spin, no sales pitches-just honest reflections on the work that shapes our collective future. By tuning in, you gain a rare window into the strategies, insights, and lived experiences that are actively reshaping the field. This isn't about distant ideals; it's about the practical steps being taken today to ensure tomorrow's tech serves everyone. If you're curious about the human stories behind the headlines and want to understand the real momentum in ethical AI, this is the podcast for you.
Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 24

AI Ethics Diaries: Keeping it Real
Podcast Episodes
Book Chat with Author Mary L. Gray “Ghost Work" [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:24
Join us for a fascinating discussion with Anthropologist and author of “Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass”, Mary L. Gray on the vast invisible human workforce that powers the se…
Fireside Chat: Diversity in AI with Dr. Timnit Gebru [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 39:37
Join us for a candid conversation with senior research scientist at Google and eminent scholar, Dr.Timnit Gebru on her seminal work in uncovering racial bias in automated facial analysis algorithms and datasets, includin…
AI Ethics Diaries - Keeping it Real Trailer [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 0:32
AI Ethics Diaries - Keeping it Real' by the Women in AI Ethics™ Collective podcast is a culmination of many diverse voices and reflects our quest for more inclusive and ethical AI. Eloquent speeches and statements are no…