Resume + Cover Letters

How To Rewrite Your Resume

• Lead with the role family you want: applied AI engineer, tooling engineer, product operator, safety researcher, or AI workflow builder.
• Turn responsibilities into outcomes: what you shipped, improved, automated, reduced, or learned under pressure.
• Use tools and systems only when they support a result. Tool names without impact read like hobby lists.
• Cut weak filler such as “hard-working,” “team player,” or “passionate about AI.” Replace them with evidence.

The Resume Structure We Recommend

• Header: name, location, email, portfolio, GitHub, LinkedIn.
• Positioning line: one sentence that names your lane and what you can be trusted to do.
• Selected impact: two to four bullets or projects that prove the lane.
• Experience / projects: outcome-first bullets with tools, context, and metrics.

How To Write The Cover Letter

• Open with why this company and role make sense for your actual work, not generic admiration.
• Show one or two examples that map directly onto the job’s constraints.
• Explain why your background gives you useful judgment, especially if you are pivoting.
• Close by naming the kind of problem you want to help solve next.

48-Hour Fix List

• Rewrite your top summary line for one role family only.
• Replace your weakest three bullets with metrics, systems, and outcomes.
• Add one proof-of-work link: repo, case study, shipped feature, write-up, or demo.
• Draft one reusable cover-letter base, then customize the company paragraph each time.

Common Mistakes

• Listing every tool you have touched instead of showing what you used them to accomplish.
• Writing cover letters that sound like fan mail instead of operator fit.
• Applying to three very different role families with the same unchanged materials.
• Hiding the work behind vague team language instead of naming your contribution clearly.

Where To Go Next

Pick one target role family, review the official company hiring pages you care about, and then tailor these materials so they match the actual language, constraints, and proof those roles are asking for.