AI Research Engineer at Anthropic · M.S. Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
When Aisha applied to Forkaia®, she had already been rejected from 47 AI internships. Her UCLA computer science degree said she was qualified. Every recruiter said she wasn't.
Every recruiter said she wasn't qualified. Then Forkaia® gave her real work — and her resume started speaking for itself.
Within her first month at Forkaia®, Aisha was assigned to fine-tune an open-source LLM for one of our portfolio companies in the legal-tech vertical. She shipped the model in 3 weeks, then started independently improving the eval harness. We promoted her, gave her her own intern, and started routing serious AI problems to her desk.
She rotated through 5 internal AI projects, each with a different domain mentor. By month 4, she was leading the model-eval workstream for the entire Forkaia portfolio.
We supported her grad school applications with detailed recommendation letters and three lab introductions. Aisha was accepted to Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, and MIT. She chose CMU.
When OpenAI started recruiting from our talent pool, we put Aisha at the top of the list. She joined as a research engineer. Two years later, Anthropic recruited her directly for their alignment team.
Aisha's LinkedIn now shows the same path so many of our top alumni follow: Forkaia → frontier lab → frontier lab.
Every stage of Aisha's Forkaia® journey was tracked — from first signup to placement to where they are today.
Aisha's UCLA CS degree wasn't opening doors. She was about to take a generic SWE role to pay rent.
Assigned to a real LLM fine-tuning project for a portfolio company.
Legal-tech LLM goes live. Earns her first verified credential.
Becomes the de-facto AI eval lead for the entire Forkaia portfolio.
With 3 lab introductions from Forkaia.
Chooses Carnegie Mellon for M.S. CS.
Recruited directly from Forkaia's top-tier talent pool.
Working on alignment. One of 11 Forkaia alumni at Anthropic.
Forkaia® doesn't just claim outcomes — we document them. Aisha's journey produced a complete paper trail of artifacts, each verifiable through our credentialing system.
Aisha's story is one of thousands. Forkaia® alumni are at Google, Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Goldman, SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI, and 600+ other companies.
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