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Companies across industries are hiring talent to help them develop and use generative AI.
The law firm Morrison Foerster and the Walt Disney Company are among those seeking AI skills.
Listings tend to offer base pay of over $100,000 — with salaries going as high as $300,000.
AI developers, engineers, and consultants are seeing a lot of new job opportunities — even at companies outside the traditional tech world. And the pay is very good, with many AI-related job postings listing salaries of well over $100,000.
Companies are on the hunt for candidates whose knowledge of AI can help them use their in-house data more extensively — for instance, to make better predictions and decisions, said Aaron Sines, a director at the Austin-based tech-recruiting company Razoroo. One agriculture client was looking to potentially use AI to help estimate crop yields, he said.
"The demand for professionals with knowledge in AI research, machine learning, deep learning — it truly outpaces the available supply of candidates," Sines said.
That means companies are offering salaries above six figures to attract experienced candidates: The base salary for AI researcher roles, even at non-tech companies, could range from $150,000 to $250,000, Sines said.
"There's certainly a scarcity, I think, and our clients are acutely aware of that, which inherently is driving upward pressure on compensation," he said.
A machine-learning-researcher role at the trading firm Jane Street indicated a salary range of $250,000 to $300,000, for example. Disney is looking to hire a senior machine-learning engineer with expertise in machine learning, algorithms, and statistical methods; the entertainment giant is offering an annual salary of $145,400 to $199,870.
Last August, the insurance company Travelers listed a data-engineer role that sought AI expertise, with a base pay of $113,900 to $188,000. The company's CEO, Alan Schnitzer, affirmed the company's push into AI on an earnings call the month the job was posted, saying that "we have a very significant number of our employees engaged on the objective of making sure that we're leading when it comes to AI."
AI-related roles don't always require engineering or coding skills.
The law firm Morrison Foerster is hiring an artificial intelligence and privacy analyst who it says will be responsible for monitoring the latest changes in the laws around AI usage and data privacy. The ideal candidate — who could make from $116,000 to $198,00 a year, depending on where the applicant is based— has a law degree, analytical and foreign language skills, and previous work experience in the AI and privacy sectors, the listing says.
Companies across industries are even specifically including ChatGPT experience as a plus in job listings.
Last June, the healthcare firm Real Chemistry posted a job for a senior product manager with a "deep interest" in using generative AI — including tools such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion — to build the company's product road map. The post listed a salary range of $150,000 to $175,000. That same month, Oliver Scholars, a professional-development nonprofit, was hiring a part-time summer history instructor responsible for teaching students how to use ChatGPT to aid their learning, its CEO, Danielle Cox, told Insider.
"We want our students to understand the opportunities and limits of this emerging technology," Cox said.
In May, the HR firm Scratch posted a job listing for a remote senior machine-learning engineer for a client. The position — which had a listed salary range of $120,000 to $185,000 — required "familiarity with current AI tools" such as ChatGPT.
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