[Cryptoanti]

I don't think there is any real demand for high end LLM researchers/mathematitions etc. who would really build LLMs.

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.

[p1esk]

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.

[philomath_mn]

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).

[p1esk]

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.

[altdataseller]

What would the job titles be for these types of jobs?

[p1esk]

ML Researcher or ML Scientist.