Prompt engineer, the new kid on the AI block
₹4 lakh, while those with a decade’s experience get ₹30 lakh, Teamlease data showed. Globally, prompt engineers were in demand through last year —a job posting by US firm Anthropic in May last year offered $335,000 ( ₹2.8 crore) per year. Generative AI may create new business cases, translating into deals valued at above $1 million, which has not happened so far for most domestic IT services firms.
The chief executives of India’s top four IT services firms corroborated this in their December quarter post-earnings press conferences. Going forward, all of them expect larger deals to materialize through FY25 and beyond. So far, while India’s top IT services firms have spoken about hundreds of generative AI pilots of small ticket sizes through FY25 and FY26, these pilots could translate into significant business deals, and prompt engineers are expected to play strategically important roles in this progress.
However, these hirings are unlikely to be of major volume. Sheba K. Fernando, associate vice-president and global head of data science and AI at large-cap IT services firm LTIMindtree said, “Most prompt engineer requirements would be based on business use cases of clients, and would not be an intrinsic need for IT services providers.
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