Prompt Engineer II or Senior Prompt Engineer
Prompt Engineer II or Senior Prompt Engineer
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Overview
At ACT Your Work Makes a Difference
Education has power a power that changes lives forever. It creates opportunities that lift up individuals their families and sparks societal change that echoes through generations to come. From our grassroots we have fought the good fight for fairness in education and we remain devoted to helping anyone who struggles to access that power. This is what matters to us and we must do better weve never been more sure of our purpose.
ACT team members are part of an organization dedicated to a mission that has never been more important: Helping people achieve education and workplace success. Advancing that mission within our organization by helping our team members achieve education and workplace success of their own is core to our values. ACT values a diverse workplace and is committed to fostering an inclusive equitable environment in which every team member has an opportunity to grow.
We want our team members to have the wellbeing and confidence they need to do their best work in an environment where both they and ACT thrive. To support this our total rewards include company paid life insurance medical dental vision flexible health and dependent spending accounts 401(k) retirement savings with company match paid holidays paid time off and so much more.You can find a comprehensive list of our benefits here.
We are seeking aPrompt Engineer II or Senior Prompt Engineerto help us fulfill that mission.
As part of the Digital Science team the Prompt Engineerwill collaborate to build advanced generative AI tools that enhance various aspects of education and assessment development. These include text and graphical content workflow optimization text extraction and automated entity classification. Our initiatives leverage technologies such as deep learning natural language processing computer vision and reinforcement learning to drive innovation and improve learning experiences and outcomes.
The finalist will be hired at the salary and level commensurate with their qualifications. For this position we anticipate offering an annual salary in the rangeof $95000 to $125000 depending on the level. ACT manages salaries within the range based on relevant factors including skills experience and internal equity.
Location:Remote (can also be onsite or hybrid if in Iowa City Iowa area)
What you will be working on:
- Construct high quality and engaging prompts that reliably elicit accurate relevant and unbiased responses
- Elicit requirements from internal customers to ensure prompt alignment with user needs
- Continuously reiterate experiment test and refine prompts to satisfy stakeholder requirements and acceptance criteria
- Monitor and analyze prompt performance to identify areas for improvement
- Illuminate and document best practices for task specific prompts
- Determine how to best integrate prompts into workflows and applications
- Maintain documentation of prompt development processes guidelines and best practices
- Work as part of a collaborative unit to build AI tools that support ACTs AI and Automation Strategy
Prompt Engineer II Requirements
- 3 years of technology UX cognitive or similar experiences that includes hands on prompt design and prompt engineering experience
- Experience successfully employing multiple prompting methods/techniques such as zeroshot fewshot chainofthought (CoT) prompt chaining tree of thoughts (ToT) retrieval augmented generation (RAG) automatic reasoning and tooluse (ART) automatic prompt engineer (APE) etc.
- Experience building prompts and then integrating them into workflows and applications
- Experience evaluating LLMs
- Experience with various data structures/algorithms
- Experience locating preprocessing manipulating analyzing interpreting and visualizing large complex data sets
- Experience documenting technical work for both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Experience designing experiments that systematically address research problems and choosing appropriate statistical tests
- Solid understanding of the architecture and operation of large language models
Senior Prompt Engineer Requirements
- 5 years of relevant experience with at least one year being handson experience working in the role of prompt engineer
- Experience successfully employing multiple prompting methods/techniques such as zeroshot fewshot chainofthought (CoT) prompt chaining tree of thoughts (ToT) retrieval augmented generation (RAG) automatic reasoning and tooluse (ART) automatic prompt engineer (APE) etc.
- Experience building prompts and then integrating them into workflows and applications
- Experience testing training and finetuning LLMs
- Experience with various data structures/algorithms
- Experience locating preprocessing manipulating analyzing interpreting and visualizing large complex data sets
- Experience documenting technical work for both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Experience designing experiments that systematically address research problems and choosing appropriate statistical tests
- Highlevel understanding of the architecture and operation of large language models
Role Progression:
- Within 1 month you will become familiar with ACTs internal stakeholders and the different types of AI projects they are currently working on. You will attend meetings with nontechnical and technical staff and assist with gathering requirements for projects requiring prompt engineering solutions. You will work under the supervision of other digital science staff to execute these projects. You will assist nontechnical and technical staff with building prompts and help troubleshoot problems with Azure developer services and other AI applications for digital science. You will understand ACTs client infrastructure and management solutions and be able to provide solutions to solve welldefined problems.
- Within 3 months you will help train staff on prompt engineering methods and best practices. You will cofacilitate meetings with nontechnical and technical staff to gather requirements for projects requiring prompt engineering solutions. You will work collaboratively with other digital science staff to execute these projects. You will be responsible for troubleshooting problems with Azure developers services and possibly other AI applications as assigned for digital science. You will collaborate with IT teams to build and deploy strategic initiatives.
- Within 6 months you will facilitate meetings with internal stakeholders to gather requirements for projects requiring prompt engineering solutions. You will work collaboratively with other digital science staff or as an individual contributor to execute these projects as well as assist AI/ML engineers and/or Senior AI/ML researchers with other ML projects as needed. You will continue to be responsible for troubleshooting problems with AI services and applications and collaborate with IT teams to build and deploy strategic initiatives. You will also identify and execute opportunities to improve internal efficiency using AI and automation solutions.
This could be the job for you if you have (minimum requirements):
- Familiarity with NLP techniques to adjust models
- Proficiency in programming in Python and familiarity with basic Python libraires such as scikitlearn and pandas
- Familiarity with relational databases (Postgres MySQL)
- Excellent problemsolving troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills with ability to synthesize and communicate ideas visually verbally and in writing with ability to explain highly technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders
- Adaptability and a willingness to learn and grow in a rapidly evolving field
- Ability to stay current with industry trends and advancements in AI technology and apply knowledge to the ongoing development of the prompt system
- Ability to collaborate within crossfunctional teams and with internal customers
- Excellent time management and organization skills with an interest in continuous learning
- Familiarity with Agile practices
- Ability to work independently but staying close to the customer to get feedback to make progress
- Skills and knowledge required for success in this position attained through experience and education (Bachelors Degree in cognitive computer or information science (HCI UIUX Human Factors) or related field of study) or a combination of both
Its a plus if you have:
- Proficiency using Microsoft Azures Cognitive Services or other AI services and applications
- Familiarity with TensorFlow and/or PyTorch frameworks
- Experience with prompt engineering used in assessment development
- Experience using JIRA to track work
- Prompt engineering certification
About ACT
When ACT was founded in 1959 it disrupted the assessment industry with a new approach to helping students better understand their readiness so they could take steps to improve it. By leveragingourexpertise and authority in assessment and researchwewill again disrupt theindustryhelping more people learn better measure their progress and improve their navigation through lifes transitions.
More than ever before ACT is fulfilling its mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. Were doing it by pushing the boundaries of learning innovation through the work of our people who we call team members because were all in this together.
We know transformation does not come without challenge. Thats why ACT invests in a variety of experiences for team members to strengthen their connections explore ideas learn from customers and celebrate success.
Learn more about working at ACTat act!
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