# Sakana AI — An Unofficial Guide to Prepare for a Research Position Application

- Company: Sakana AI (sakana.ai)
- Announced: 2026-01-19T15:00:00+00:00
- Subject: Sakana models
- Source: https://sakana.ai/unofficial-guide
- Record: https://forck.live/items/4698-an-unofficial-guide-to-prepare-for-a-research-position-application

Sakana AI published an unofficial guide on what they look for when interviewing research candidates, emphasizing understanding over implementation, asking questions that distill the problem space, prototyping what matters, going deep rather than broad, communicating clearly, and balancing engineering with creativity.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://sakana.ai/unofficial-guide:

> We published an unofficial guide on what we look for when interviewing research candidates at Sakana AI.

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