Also called: AI Prompt Designer, LLM Prompt Specialist
Writes and tests the instructions that tell AI models how to behave in a product.
You rewrite the hidden instructions for a customer-service chatbot so it stops making up return policies. You run the same 100 tricky questions through each version and score the answers. Part writer, part scientist, part detective.
Pay varies widely; many companies now fold this into AI engineer or content roles.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in any field; strong writing plus some coding or data skills.
Ways in: 4-year college, Self-taught, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: English, Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Science.
Growing about average. Hot title in 2023-24; now often merged into broader AI engineering roles.
High risk for 10 years. Models now follow plain instructions and optimize their own prompts, so standalone prompt-writing jobs are fading.
Classes: AP English Language, AP Computer Science Principles, Psychology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1299.
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