Which roles ask for Prompt Engineering at tech companies · 88 roles · 90 days to Oct 7, 2026
Updated
88 roles counted that list Prompt Engineering, one per company, title and level; 147 postings in the window.
In short
Prompt Engineering: listed in 88 roles at tech companies whose requirements we read, in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026. It was required in 63 and preferred in 25. The largest group is AI engineer roles: 24 of 88 (27%).
- Required
- 63 of 88 (72%)
- Of the roles that list Prompt Engineering
- Preferred
- 25 of 88 (28%)
- Of the roles that list Prompt Engineering
- Largest group
- 24 of 88 (27%)
- AI engineer
Roles that ask for Prompt Engineering
Roles listing Prompt Engineering, by title family. Where the role has a page, the count is also out of that role's roles whose requirements we read.
| Role | Roles | Of the role's roles we read |
|---|---|---|
| AI engineer | 24 | 24 of 70 (34%) |
| Software engineer | 23 | 23 of 719 (3%) |
| Data scientist | 12 | 12 of 112 (11%) |
| Machine learning engineer | 11 | 11 of 79 (14%) |
| Forward deployed engineer | 9 | 9 of 63 (14%) |
| Security engineer | 4 | 4 of 126 (3%) |
| Data engineer | 2 | 2 of 99 (2%) |
| Data analyst | 1 | 1 of 47 |
| DevOps engineer | 1 | 1 of 58 (2%) |
| QA engineer | 1 | 1 of 63 (2%) |
Companies that ask for it most
- Anthropic3 roles
- George Bernard Consulting3 roles
- Lifelancer3 roles
- Airbnb2 roles
- Black Duck Software, Inc.2 roles
- Coalition, Inc.2 roles
- Wadhwani AI2 roles
- Reddit1 role
- Soda Data1 role
- Tiger Analytics1 role
Asked alongside
Out of the 88 Prompt Engineering roles whose requirements we read: the other skills they ask for. At most 10 per list, those asked for most.
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| Python | 61 of 88 (69%) |
| LLMs | 47 of 88 (53%) |
| AI | 41 of 88 (47%) |
| AI Agents | 28 of 88 (32%) |
| CI/CD | 22 of 88 (25%) |
| Machine Learning | 21 of 88 (24%) |
| RAG | 21 of 88 (24%) |
| Generative AI | 19 of 88 (22%) |
| AWS | 18 of 88 (20%) |
| LangChain | 17 of 88 (19%) |
| Skill | Roles asking |
|---|---|
| LLMs | 13 of 88 (15%) |
| AI Agents | 12 of 88 (14%) |
| RAG | 11 of 88 (13%) |
| AI | 10 of 88 (11%) |
| Model Evaluation | 10 of 88 (11%) |
| Open Source | 9 of 88 (10%) |
| AWS | 8 of 88 (9%) |
| CI/CD | 8 of 88 (9%) |
| Fine-Tuning | 8 of 88 (9%) |
| LangChain | 7 of 88 (8%) |
Experience
Of the 48 roles that state years
Each line counts roles asking for at least that many years, so the lines overlap.
- 1+ year
- 48 of 48
- 2+ years
- 48 of 48
- 3+ years
- 42 of 48
- 5+ years
- 31 of 48
- 8+ years
- 9 of 48
- 10+ years
- 4 of 48
Degree
Of the 67 roles we could read for it
- Required
- 5 of 67 (7%)
- Required, or experience instead
- 12 of 67 (18%)
- Preferred
- 6 of 67 (9%)
- Not mentioned
- 44 of 67 (66%)
Pay and remote work
Of the 88 roles we could read for it. Pay these roles state, not what the skill pays.
- Roles stating pay
- 42 of 88 (48%)
- Remote roles
- 62 of 88 (70%)
How we count: 88 roles from 78 employers in the 90 days to Oct 7, 2026, each role counted once however many boards post it. Skills are counted out of the roles whose requirements we read. Roles are not filtered by country. Methodology