India, Feb. 23 -- A 24-year-old Indian-origin engineer has opened up about how joining an artificial intelligence startup and moving to San Francisco reshaped his professional journey. In an as-told-to essay published in Business Insider, Jai Raj Choudhary, now an AI engineer at StackAI, shared that working at a startup gave him hands-on exposure that traditional roles often cannot offer.

Choudhary completed his Master's in AI between 2023 and 2025, beginning his career in a data-focused role, he told Business Insider. He said the AI landscape began shifting around 2023-24 as large language models (LLMs) became practical for real-world products, turning what once felt like a research-heavy domain into an engineering-driven field.

The 24...