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Prompt Engineer. The role, the market signal, and how to build it in your org.
Designs, tests, and maintains prompt suites and evals. Often paired with agent-prompt and red-team teams at model labs.
In a workforce of people and AI agents, this role takes shape around the workflows it supports. Define its responsibilities and handoffs, then prepare people to perform that work.
13 postings · 10 distinct titles · from 264,613 real job postings · see the live data →
What the market calls it
Prompt EngineerPrompt Engineer, EvalsLLM Specialist
Hiring this role in our corpus right now
Accenture 3Gevernova 2Cognizant 1Adobe 1Anthropic 1
What the postings ask this role to do
221 tasks extracted from real Prompt Engineer job descriptions, classified Automate / Augment / Human-only. Only 3.6% can be fully automated: companies are hiring this role for the judgment, not the keystrokes.
Automate
- Conduct unit tests on developed code.
- Document prompt engineering processes.
- Document prompt engineering best practices.
- Execute source code for software applications.
- Maintain reusable prompt libraries and version control.
Augment
- Employ techniques to guide and enhance model responses
- Collaborate with domain experts to understand business needs and translate them into clear and effective llm prompts.
Human-only
- Make team decisions
How we build it in your org
From the market's version of this role to your version of it
1. Define workflow responsibilities
Start with the workflows this role supports: the outcomes, decisions, and handoffs it owns. Task Intelligence examines the tasks within that work and how people and agents can share responsibility.2. Define your version
Your team composes the job description for your org's variant of the role, grounded in those responsibilities and the task evidence rather than a copied template.3. Practise and assess readiness
Build on the domain and technical expertise your people already bring. Use relevant Simulations, GenAI Sandboxes, and Skill Validation Assessments to practise changed responsibilities and demonstrate capability. Revisit preparation when the work changes.Start with the work, not the org chart.
Define what this role will own, then connect those responsibilities to practice and assessment.