- The rise of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT has created a hot market for “instant engineers”.
- Mentoring Engineers train AI chatbots to improve their responses.
- Gigs pay up to $335,000 annually and don’t always require a tech degree.
Technology is known for high-paying jobs — and for a hot new job in industry, you don’t even need a STEM degree.
The rise of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT has created a need for “rapid engineers,” people who write questions and toss for intelligent chatbots to test and improve their answers. Some of these roles have salaries of up to $335,000 and do not require degrees in technology.
Anthropic, an artificial intelligence research and security company, Currently an open role for “Fast Engineer and Librarian” with a salary of $175,000 to $335,000, such as First reported by Bloomberg.
The post notes that the role involves creating “a library of high-quality prompts or quick strings to accomplish a variety of tasks, with an easy guide to help users find the very thing that meets their needs,” and building “a suite of educational and interactive tools that teach the art of quick engineering to our clients.” “.
Applicants with basic programming skills and a “high level” of familiarity with large language paradigms would be a good fit, per post, but Anthropic says she wants people to apply “even if you don’t think you meet every single qualification.”
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, spoke about the need for agile engineers. in february, He tweeted that “Writing a really cool prompt for a chatbot persona is an amazingly high-impact skill.”
Anna Bernstein, Speed Engineer at Copy.ai, was a freelance writer and historical research assistant before she started working with AI tools.
“I love the ‘mad scientist’ part of the job where I can come up with a dumb idea for a pacing and see that it actually works,” Bernstein told Insider. “As a poet, the role also feeds my obsessive nature with approaching language. It’s really a strange cross between my literary background and analytical thinking.”
The market for spot engineers is growing. PromptBase, a fast market that fired last Juneallows people to hire spot engineers or sell their claims.
Although there are opportunities in rapid engineering for people without technical backgrounds, most high-paying roles require people with more experience and higher levels of education in technology-focused fields, recruiters told Bloomberg.
“Salaries start at £40,000, but we have candidates in our database who are looking for £200,000 to £300,000 a year,” Mark Standen, who works for Hays, a recruitment agency in the UK and Ireland, told Bloomberg. “Expert existing engineers can set their own prices.”
While the market for spot engineers is growing rapidly, some warn that it may not necessarily be the most important role in the long term.
“I have a strong suspicion that ‘fast engineering’ will not be the job in the long term and that the fast engineer is not the job of the future,” Ethan Mullick, a professor at the Wharton School, said. tweeted in February.
While the ability to interact with generative AI tools through prompts is “highly valuable,” Adrian Wheeler, director of research in machine learning at the University of Cambridge, told Bloomberg, “I’m not sure it’ll last for long. Don’t dwell too much on it.” Speaking of the current state of rapid engineering, it has started to develop very quickly.”
Correction: March 30, 2023 — An earlier version of this story misstated the number of LinkedIn job listings for spot engineers. LinkedIn spokesperson He earlier told Insider there were 708, but that number has been corrected to 15. The sentence has been removed from the story.