![[0 YoE] AI/Data Engineer on STEM OPT (international student, US), good projects and no callbacks. What am I missing?](https://preview.redd.it/x36f3mnkyohh1.png?width=140&height=140&crop=1:1,smart&auto=webp&s=7ecee8179813ba5da1e16de386d6718251c8c1bb "[0 YoE] AI/Data Engineer on STEM OPT (international student, US), good projects and no callbacks. What am I missing?") |
Context: Finishing an MS in Business Analytics (May 2026) and Bachelors in Computer Science in India, targeting entry-level AI Engineer / Data Engineer Engineer roles in the US. International student on OPT, so I need employers open to that. I've worked in a trans Diciplinary Research lab (where I've worked with cool professors, finished projects, including one with a retired Dallas Judge for an AI system for legal purposes) and a roofing company where I've built agentic systems that actually run small business operations, plus data pipelines and a multi-agent research project. One is made for a data engineer role, and one is for an AI Engineer role I'm in Dallas,US right now, and I'm willing to relocate Where I'm stuck: roughly 100-200 over 2-3 months → 0 interviews Specific things I'd like torn apart: – Does the top third sell me in ~6 seconds, or is it too dense to skim? – The "staff needed for daily ops: 10 → 3" line is my headline metric. Does it read as credible, or inflated/hand-wavy? Would you ask about it or bounce off it? – Am I positioning myself as a generalist? is that a good thing or not? – Anything that screams "junior" or gives a recruiter an easy reason to filter me out? Go ahead, roast it. I'd rather hear it straight here than keep getting silent rejections. submitted by /u/Hour_Feed881 to r/EngineeringResumes |
Source: r/EngineeringResumes · by /u/Hour_Feed881