You can get a job at a company doing research. Improve their tooling and this make them research faster. SRI comes to mind in this regard.
Inside the company you can also push them to try and open source the tools. Unlikely that’ll work if they don’t do it already, however this skill set will eventually let you contribute more in the future. After some time on the job, start a personal open source project or start a company directed at some of the issues you saw.
It’s general advice and it’s the long game, but will likely help you have more impact.
The advice above may be more useful for engineers earlier in their career, but you can accomplish that in a handful of years.
Inside the company you can also push them to try and open source the tools. Unlikely that’ll work if they don’t do it already, however this skill set will eventually let you contribute more in the future. After some time on the job, start a personal open source project or start a company directed at some of the issues you saw.
It’s general advice and it’s the long game, but will likely help you have more impact.
The advice above may be more useful for engineers earlier in their career, but you can accomplish that in a handful of years.