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29M, lmk if you want to hang out!

29M, envie de faire un truc!

Hey ! Je suis à Lyon cette semaine pour une conférence (ICPR). Est-ce que qqn veut faire un truc ? 29M, c’est ma troisième fois à Lyon et je dois dire que je kiffe cette ville !

I’m 30yo, PhD in engineering, currently living in Germany. I have 4 years of work experience as a researcher, 2 years as a people manager and half a year as visiting researcher in the US. I was able to find some jobs that explicitly state that they sponsor visas, I know the visas process very well, and I was invited to a few interviews for such jobs but dropped the ball.

My main question is: how can I maximize the amount of interviews that I get and where can I find jobs that specifically sponsor visas (outside of academia)?

I know the job market in the US is tough as well but I’d appreciate any guidance! And since it seems to have become a meme here: I am more than happy to pay anyone my first month’s salary if they hook me up with a job!

I’m about to pull the trigger on self petitioning and want to do it myself. Before I prepare my documents, I would really appreciate a reality check from you guys:

• German citizen and applying from Germany
• BSc, MSc, PhD in mechanical engineering (but work in an publish on AI & robotics) from German universities
• Work as middle manager / principal investigator in academia (team lead, >20 ppl)
• >440 citations, >30 publications, multiple national reports and a few international ones on my work
• Reviewer for journals, conferences
• Was a visiting scholar at a small teaching university in the US for a semester (J1) very recently
• Got an assessment from Chen in 2024 saying that they’d take my case and I have good chances
• Industry experience only in the form of internships but at very well known multinationals

Let me know what you think!