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Senior Prompt Engineer

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About the Role

As a Senior Prompt Engineer at Scale AI, you will be at the forefront of developing and implementing advanced LLM applications. Your main responsibilities will include evaluating data quality, solving complex problems related to synthetic data capabilities, and executing robust business solutions. You will also be involved in 'jailbreaking' and finding vulnerabilities in LLMs and other generative AI models, developing training materials for red teaming and adversarial analysis, and conducting training with operational staff.

Responsibilities

  • Develop LLM applications to evaluate data quality and solve complex problems.
  • 'Jailbreak' and find vulnerabilities in LLMs and other generative AI models.
  • Develop training materials for red teaming and adversarial analysis.
  • Conduct training with operational staff.
  • Develop data creation and vulnerability testing scripts in Python/TypeScript.
  • Work with ML Engineers and software engineers for robust implementation and in-platform deployment.
  • Analyze and visualize experimental prompt results.
  • Develop and teach new prompt engineering methods to ML engineers and software engineering staff.

Qualifications

  • B.S. or higher in a quantitative major or one related to language models (linguistics, philosophy, etc.).
  • Proficiency writing Python or TypeScript for API-enabled scripts.
  • Ability to conduct analysis of model performance via statistics and data visualization.
  • Experience using frontier-scale LLMs (GPT, Claude, PaLM) programmatically towards specific applications or implementations.
  • Demonstrated ability to have built an LLM-based application or hacking an LLM to serve some novel purpose.
  • Familiarity with LLM evaluation metrics (BLUE, ROUGE, MAUVE, etc.) and statistics.

Nice to Haves

  • Previous experience with AI/LLM developmental work or red teaming a strong plus.
  • Academic work in language models, particularly on adversarial robustness.
  • Previous disclosures of vulnerabilities or security issues in LLMs or other AI models.
  • Experience working with cloud technology stack (e.g., AWS or GCP) and developing machine learning models in a cloud environment.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation packages at Scale for eligible roles include base salary, equity, and benefits. The salary range for this full-time position in locations like San Francisco, New York, Seattle is $140,000 — $210,000 USD. Scale employees in eligible roles are also granted equity-based compensation, subject to Board of Director approval. Additionally, this role may be eligible for additional benefits such as a commuter stipend.

Benefits
Extracted with AI

  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Retirement benefits
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Generous PTO
  • Commuter stipend

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