Career ladder
Common Prompt Engineering roles and typical compensation bands in India:
- Prompt Engineer — 8-22 LPA
- LLM Application Engineer — 12-24 LPA
Foundation
Focus areas for the foundation phase:
- Model behavior
- System prompts
- Temperature & sampling
Patterns
Focus areas for the patterns phase:
- Few-shot
- CoT
- Self-consistency
- Structured output
Production
Focus areas for the production phase:
- Evals
- Guardrails
- Cost & latency tuning
Signals recruiters look for
Beyond skills, hiring managers screen for these signals:
- Shipped projects on GitHub / portfolio
- Certifications relevant to the role
- Communication in interviews
- Domain knowledge (industry-specific)
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