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Become a Context Engineer

Very High Growth

Designs systems that provide AI models with the right information at the right time, going beyond prompt engineering to ensure models are grounded in correct data and knowledge. Day-to-day involves curating knowledge bases, managing retrieval pipelines, building context assembly systems, optimizing token usage, designing memory architectures for AI agents, and ensuring AI outputs are factually grounded.

$165K$140,000 - $220,000
4moAvg Transition
Very HighGrowth Rate

Skills Required

Information architectureKnowledge base design and managementRAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systemsVector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, Chroma)Data pipeline engineeringLLM API integrationPython programmingUnderstanding of embeddings and semantic search

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