Lead Prompt Engineer: Strategic LLM Migration
Are you a veteran of the AI landscape with a Doctorate or Master's and a track record of shaping LLM performance? Welo Data is seeking a Lead Prompt Engineer to spearhead the technical migration of template architectures into state-of-the-art LLM autoraters. This is a high-stakes leadership role. You will not only engineer complex prompts but also guide a specialized team, drive the migration strategy, and certify the launch readiness of our next-generation AI solutions. The Mission Leading the AI Evolution
- Strategic Oversight Manage the full end-to-end technical migration workflow, ensuring a seamless transition from human-rated templates to automated LLM systems.
- Team Mentorship Guide a team of engineers through the complexities of parent-child template clusters and automated optimization.
- Advanced Optimization Direct the use of APG and APO tools, providing the high-level intervention needed when automated systems reach plateaus.
- Launch Certification Take final responsibility for accuracy metrics, running prompt versions against gold data to verify $F_1$ scores, precision, and recall.
- Edge-Case Resolution Architect manual prompt strategies to solve the most difficult "anti-patterns" in legacy architectures. Project Details
- Schedule Part-Time (Flexible hours within project milestones)
- Location 100% Remote (Must be based in the United States)
- Employment Type Freelance / Independent Contractor
- Duration Long-term technical migration project The Executive Profile
- Elite Expertise At least 7 years of experience as a Prompt Engineer with a proven history of tuning LLMs for structured outputs and complex classification.
- Advanced Academic Background Master’s or Doctorate (PhD) in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, HCI, or a related analytical field.
- Data Mastery Strong proficiency in SQL and deep-dive error pattern analysis to monitor and enhance model performance.
- Technical Agility Expert-level ability to master proprietary tools and enterprise-grade interfaces like the Goose API.
- Leadership Excellence A natural mentor with the verbal and written communication skills required to justify technical launches to stakeholders. Preferred High-Level Skills
- Experience in software engineering or AI model evaluation at an enterprise scale.
- Deep linguistic expertise, specifically in semantics and formal logic.
- Hands-on experience with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and shadowbot disagreement tracking. Apply To This Job