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If you're a relatively senior engineer, any reasonable company will want you to be doing knowledge sharing (or outright mentoring - which this isn't, but it falls vaguely enough in the same bucket that you can usually get positive attention for it.)

(In a previous startup, we had cross-department tech talks, partly because we had some really specialized problems, so it was useful for, say, releng to hear about what the ML team thought was interesting, and vice versa, just for generally improving communication and reducing friction. We even threw in an occasional "lightning talk" session, which was popular, though it was as much for getting people comfortable giving talks so they could level up to bigger ones.)