. Less noticed is a jobs market mushrooming around the technology, where these newly created roles can pay upwards of $US335,000 a year.They’re called “prompt engineers”, people who spend their day coaxing the AI to produce better results and help companies train their workforce to harness the tools.
“It’s like an AI whisperer,” says Albert Mr Phelps, a prompt engineer at Mudano, part of consultancy firm Accenture in Leytonstone, England. “You’ll often find prompt engineers come from a history, philosophy, or English language background, because it’s wordplay. You’re trying to distil the essence or meaning of something into a limited number of words.
Companies such as Anthropic, a Google-backed start-up, are advertising salaries up to $US335,000 for a “Prompt Engineer and Librarian” in San Francisco. Automated document reviewer Klarity also in California is offering as much as $US230,000 for a machine learning engineer who can “prompt and understand how to produce the best output” from AI tools. Outside of the tech world, Boston Children’s Hospital and London law firm Mishcon de Reya recently advertised for prompt engineer jobs.