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Prompt Engineer
Designs instructions that get the best out of large language models
£50k–£100k AI-driven
What it involves
Crafts, tests and iterates on prompts and system instructions to reliably steer LLM outputs for specific tasks. Combines linguistic intuition with systematic experimentation to build reusable prompt libraries.
Skills & knowledge needed
LLM behaviourA/B testing promptsTechnical writingChain-of-thought designEvaluation frameworks
Why it's emerging now
Every product team using LLMs needs someone who can make the model reliably do the right thing.
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