Personal thoughts. Not legal or official advice!!!

Theoretically you can look for job any time. The key issue is whether you can be authorized to work. There are three ways you can work offcampus on F-1:

1) Curriculum Practical Tranining, particulaly for summer intern;

2) OPT;

3) Get a H-1 approval before you go to the market.

Since you have already been in Ph.D. program, I doubt you will be able to obtain OPT for your master degree. But you can apply for OPT increments (for exmaple, 2 months, 3 months) anytime during your study or OPT total 12 months after your study.

Hope this is what you want to know and hope it helps a little bit.

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