Whoever invented “Member of Technical Staff” was a genius.
It filters out Staff/Principal title-maxxers, protects engineering and research from corporate ladder brain, and leaves recruiters staring at LinkedIn like: “Is this person L4 or L7?”
MTS is the best title. Happy to be MTS.
very hard to do something novel for the first time; orders of magnitude easier to copy something that is known to be possible.
conviction is either extremely difficult, or free.