(MENAFN- Live Mint) Meta on Wednesday announced it would be cutting thousands of employees as part of an ongoing series of layoffs at the tech giant – among them is an Indian woman residing in the United States. The woman took to the social media platform X to seek opportunities, and her comment section was soon flooded with messages from founders and CEOs of several small AI startups.

What did she say about her visa status?

The woman clarified that she was working in the US on an H-1B visa – a visa that allows highly skilled workers to live and work in the US for up to three years at a time – and noted that her new employer would need to sponsor her visa, if she qualifies.

What was her role at Meta?

The Seattle-based Indian woman was hired as a research scientist by Meta in February this year but was laid off after nine months.

“I was impacted by Meta layoffs today,” she wrote.“As a Research Scientist working on LLM post-training (reward models, DPO/GRPO) and automated evaluation pipelines, I've focused on understanding why and where models fail and how to make them better.

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“I'm looking for opportunities; please reach out!” she requested.

“I'm on H-1B visa and need visa sponsorship (and possibly an I-140 application),” she added.

The woman added that she was still listed internally at Meta, as she had two months to transition to a new team.“I'd like to stay in the Greater Seattle area if possible,” she said.

Within a short time, her post went viral, amassing numerous comments.

Who reached out to her?

Violet Herod, founder of Beauvette, wrote:“So sorry to hear that. I sent you an email to reach out.”

Microsoft employee Varsh Sridharan said:“Feel free to DM if you find relevant roles at Microsoft. We are hiring for applied scientists across orgs.”

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Vincent Weisser, CEO of Prime Intellect, wrote:“Let's chat! Exactly what we are scaling up at Prime Intellect.”

How many jobs are being cut at Meta?

Mark Zuckerberg's AI Superintelligence Labs plans to lay off around 600 employees with the aim of being more competitive, Bloomberg reported, citing an internal memo.

Employees of Meta's AI unit were informed of their job cuts on 22 October, according to the memo. Notably, Meta's newly formed TBD Lab group, which includes many of the highly paid recent hires, has not been affected.

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Meta Platforms' Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang wrote in the memo that the move aims to increase efficiency and reduce bureaucracy.

“By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” he wrote.

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