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Tracked since June 2024
LLM engineering in All Australia
Building products on large language models: prompts, retrieval, evaluation.
Also searched as large language models, genai, generative ai, llms, rag
Right now
- 4 wk
- Up+28%280 → 357 ads
- Entry
- 9.0%32 of 357 ads
280 → 357 ads in four weeks (Up +28%)
Why this is flagged: the change is at least 25% and at least 10 ads, and there are enough ads to trust it. A signal describes the market — it doesn’t tell you what to learn.
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- Demand357job ads in 28 daysJob ads
- 4-week changeUp+28%280 → 357 adsJob ads
- 12-month changeUp+55%1,916 → 2,974 adsJob ads
- Entry-level share9.0%32 of 357 adsJob ads
- No PR stated70.3%251 of 357 adsJob ads
- Employers hiring130top 5 post 20.7%Job ads
- Median salary$144k1,309 of 2,974 adsJob ads
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Composition
Roles that ask for LLM engineering
- 45%45% of Machine Learning Engineer ads mention LLM engineering.
- 15% of Data Scientist ads mention LLM engineering.
Data ScientistData
15%
Co-occurrence
Often asked for together
- Oftenasked for in the same ads most of the time
- PyTorchMachine learning
- Sometimesa common pairing in some roles
- PythonStatistics
- Occasionallyshows up together now and then
- RustApache SparkKubernetesDocker
Location
Where the ads are
- New South Wales137 · 38.1%
- Victoria115 · 31.9%
- Queensland44 · 12.2%
- Western Australia25 · 6.9%
- Australian Capital Territory17 · 4.7%
- South Australia15 · 4.2%
- Tasmania4 · 1.1%
- Northern Territory3 · 0.83%
360 ads in the last four weeks under your filter, by state or country.
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Learning effort
Months
Expect a few months of regular practice, ideally on a real project, before you can use it at work.
Transferability
Moderate
Carries over to several related roles.
Rising ads don’t mean you should learn this.
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