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My 2 cents: You have awesome 3D Graphics/Games development experience. The best way to leverage that would be to market yourself as a 3D Graphics SW Developer/3D Game developer (you may need to deep dive a bit into 3D Graphics principles, OpenGL). Almost every semi company (Arm, QC, BC, Intel etc) and even FAANG's have openings for 3D Graphics SW engineers and you are actually well qualified for those as background in games is highly valued for these roles. Note: you will miss working with GFX apps in these roles, but you will not miss the pay!!!

The problem as I see it is: are you a games/3D Graphics developer, full stack developer or AI/ML engineer? The lack of clarity in this difficult market may be one of the reasons.

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Hey, this feels like a valuable insight. Thank you.

The CV would be a lot shorter with only the 3D graphics stuff, but maybe that's not a problem? I'll try creating a separate graphics developer CV and see what happens.

I've heard the horror stories about games industry conditions so hadn't really pushed in that direction but will definitely start looking for non-gaming 3D jobs.

Thanks again, much appreciated.

>> I've heard the horror stories about games industry conditions

Yes, they are unfortunately true more often than not. My suggestion is to leverage your prior Game Dev related profile/experience to get into lower level of graphics tools stack (sorry that didn't come through). These exist in semi and FAANG's (but be prepared to play a bit of the leetcode game as well). Just check F and fruit company with 3D Graphics as keyword!

I'm not sure about hiring in 3D graphics but my resume has two somewhat different paths on it and I've always made 2 separate resumes just by switching around the focus/how I frame things. Like the main header would have the most relevant roles with greater detail, but I still mention highlights from other work under a second header, because I don't think it's entirely irrelevant either.

Also, I think the process of doing this makes me consider more carefully what I'm trying to convey about each role, and what parts of the resume I want to draw the most immediate focus to for a given type of job app.