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Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field? by p1esk on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @10:31PM (#39611996)
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.

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Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field? by altdataseller on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @06:09AM (#39614668)
What would the job titles be for these types of jobs?
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Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field? by p1esk on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @09:46AM (#39616484)
ML Researcher or ML Scientist.
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Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field? by philomath_mn on Wednesday March 06, 2024 @04:12PM (#39621535)
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).
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Re:Ask HN: How's the current state of hiring in the LLM field? by p1esk on Thursday March 07, 2024 @04:59PM (#39635075)
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.
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