Prompt Engineers design, evaluate, and iterate on prompts and prompt-engineering pipelines for production LLM applications. The role spans pure prompting (system prompts, few-shot examples, structured output), prompt evaluation (eval harnesses, regression testing), and increasingly the broader AI Engineering surface (RAG, agents, fine-tuning decisions).
Salary by Experience Level
Junior
$90,000 – $125,000
per year
Mid-Level
$130,000 – $185,000
per year
Senior
$190,000 – $280,000
per year
Required Skills
LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini)Prompt patterns (CoT, few-shot, structured output)Eval harness designA/B testing promptsPrompt versioning and observabilityPythonJSON schema / function callingCost and latency optimization