AI Prompt Engineer

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. A person focused on designing, iterating, and evaluating prompts or AI workflows to get reliable behavior from models. In cultural conversations the term is sometimes used seriously and sometimes skeptically, especially when job titles outpace actual engineering depth.

    In plain English: Someone whose main job is crafting and improving prompts for AI systems.

    Example: "Early on they hired an AI prompt engineer mainly to stabilize extraction workflows before the platform tooling matured."

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