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Prompt Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) · Austin, US

Job description

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

  • Hands‑on experience in prompt design and optimization for LLMs
  • Strong understanding of NLP concepts and generative AI behavior
  • Experience evaluating and validating AI‑generated outputs
  • Ability to translate functional or business requirements into precise AI instructions
  • Familiarity with Python, REST APIs, or AI SDKs
  • Strong written communication and technical documentation skills

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and refine prompts to elicit reliable and high‑quality outputs from LLMs (e.g., GPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA)
  • Apply and experiment with prompting techniques such as few‑shot prompting, chain‑of‑thought, role‑based prompts, and structured outputs
  • Optimize prompt formats, structures, and parameters to improve model accuracy, consistency, and relevance
  • Evaluate LLM responses for correctness, relevance, bias, hallucination, safety, and compliance with usage guidelines
  • Collaborate with software engineers and data scientists to integrate prompts into applications, APIs, workflows, and automation pipelines
  • Build and maintain reusable prompt libraries, templates, and best‑practice standards
  • Document prompt strategies, experiments, evaluation outcomes, and optimization learnings
  • Support prompt‑plus‑data approaches including Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG), embeddings, and fine‑tuning where applicable
  • Monitor model updates and adapt prompt strategies as model behavior evolves
  • Ensure prompts and generated outputs align with ethical guidelines, responsible AI principles, and business policies

Salary Range: $100,000-$120,000 a year

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Location Austin, TX Job Function TECHNOLOGY Role Engineer Job Id 409984 Desired Skills Python Salary Range $100,000-$120,000 a year

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