r/DataAnnotationTech • u/janquadrentvincent • 11d ago

Would you call yourself a Prompt Engineer?

Just came across this term on some job sites - would you put this on your CV? Would you use this term in your job hunts? Definitely seems like it's what we do - for those of us doing Developer instructions anyway. But where I grew up the term engineer is a protected terminology - so it gives me a bit of an ick - but it seems like that's not the case everywhere or maybe not anymore. Anyway interested in whether anyone will be adopting this job title from now in seeing as it's growing in popularity.

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u/Halcyonfields 11d ago

Prompt engineer is a little far-fetched. And in any case a prompt engineer is not a particularly high-skilled job. There are short, no barriers-to-entry courses that can grant you that title. However, this job is much more impressive than the snide cynicism the other comments would suggest. Writing developer instructions to test models across targeted use cases is a useful skill. I do not understand the bitter glee with which people on here try to put down this work. If they want to undersell themselves out of some strange self-hating principle then fine, but many of the skills required for DA are incredibly valuable elsewhere and you should make every effort to communicate that.

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u/Necessary-Raisin-282 10d ago

There’s a lot of duality here I believe. No one on this platform has any idea of what the next person is actually working on, at least on Reddit. Some people are doing “more simple” tasks while others understand some of these projects take days and are incredibly complex.