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Job Title: Senior Prompt Engineer
Contract Length: 6+ Months
Location: Charlotte, NC 28262
(On-site, 3 days per week)

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Overview

We are seeking a Senior Prompt Engineer to support enterprise AI initiatives by standardizing and optimizing prompt engineering practices across multiple business units. This role plays a critical part in shaping how the organization designs, tests, and scales prompt strategies for Generative AI and large language model (LLM) applications.

Core Competencies

Understanding of LLM Behavior

• Deep knowledge of how large language models process tokens, context windows, and temperature settings.
• Familiarity with prompt injection risks and mitigation strategies.

Prompt Design & Optimization

• Expertise in techniques such as few-shot prompting, chain-of-thought, role prompting, and zero-shot learning.
• Ability to structure prompts for clarity, specificity, and adaptability.

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Fundamentals

• Understanding of tokenization, embeddings, and semantic similarity.
• Experience with text generation, summarization, and classification methods.

Critical Thinking & Creativity

• Strong analytical mindset to deconstruct complex tasks into efficient prompt sequences.
• Creative approach to balancing constraints and flexibility within prompts.

Evaluation & Iteration

• Experience designing A/B tests to measure prompt performance.
• Ability to use quantitative and qualitative metrics (e.g., BLEU, ROUGE, or human evaluation) to assess output quality.

Ethics & Safety

• Understanding of AI bias, fairness, and responsible AI practices.
• Ability to design safeguards against harmful or sensitive outputs.

Basic Programming Skills

• Proficiency in Python for automation and API integration.
• Familiarity with JSON for structured output handling.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in AI/ML, NLP, or related fields with hands-on exposure to Generative AI systems.
• Strong understanding of LLMs, prompt-response dynamics, and model limitations.
• Proficiency with platforms such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Vertex AI, or similar.
• Excellent analytical and communication skills to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to document, standardize, and scale prompt engineering processes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Linguistics, or related discipline.
• Experience with advanced prompting techniques (e.g., chaining, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), context injection).
• Familiarity with enterprise AI governance frameworks and risk mitigation strategies.
• Background in regulated industries such as finance or healthcare.