[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.