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by namank 2103 days ago
Look at positions that ask for prototyping engineers. The goal is to get it working anyway possible. You're not going to bogged down by larger programming concepts, reusability, performance, etc. Try fast growing startups with the culture of shipping fast.

I went from working at a large company to writing software for a startup and had the unlearn a lot of these concepts. Since you don't care for these concepts anyways, you'll probably be a better prototype engineer than I ever was. Also, look at related fields that require scientific programming using tools such as matlab as they also (mostly) focus more on getting the solution working rather than how it works.