Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field?
by p1esk on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:31PM
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I don't think there is any real demand for high end LLM researchers/mathematitions etc. who would really build LLMs
You couldn’t be more wrong. Such people make 7 digit salaries, either at FAANGs or at unicorn startups. It’s the hottest job in ML today. Though very few people can actually build a GPT-5 level model.
Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field?
by altdataseller on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @06:09AM
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What would the job titles be for these types of jobs?
Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field?
by p1esk on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:46AM
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ML Researcher or ML Scientist.
Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field?
by philomath_mn on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:12PM
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Yes, but that is definitely a winner-takes-all type position. Top 0.1% get the 7 figure salaries, top 1% get a good job -- not sure about the other 99% (numbers for illustrative purposes only).
Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field?
by p1esk on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:59PM
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It's more like top 10% get 7 digit salaries, and the remaining 90% get by on upper 6 digits. Keep in mind there are probably only a couple thousand of "high end LLM researchers/mathematitions etc. who would really build LLMs" in the world.
On the other hand, only a small amount of companies have the money, interest to actually at least finetune LLMs. They have their people already in place.
Than you have people who should integrate LLMs and tbh thats something everyone can do who was able to integrate any other api. I don't think there will be middle class companies looking for LLM experts.