{
  "id": 12091946,
  "title": "El trabajo mejor pagado por la inteligencia artificial",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/el-trabajo-mejor-pagado-por-la-inteligencia-artificial",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-05T05:47:09.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Expansion ES",
    "slug": "expansion-es",
    "url": "https://www.expansion.com/expansion-empleo/retribucion/2026/10/05/6abd501a468aebc6038b457e.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "The most lucrative jobs for artificial intelligence are shifting towards highly specialized professionals who can intervene deeply within the technology. These roles, which can pay up to 850,000 dollars annually, involve training models, improving reasoning capabilities, accelerating chips, and reducing the massive computational cost required to run them. Anthropic currently offers a salary range of 280,000 to 850,000 dollars per year for a TPU Kernel Engineer, a professional who works at the intersection of machine learning, hardware, compilers, and computer architecture to optimize the small mathematical operations executed by the model's accelerators. This salary is not the usual pay for the position, but it illustrates the willingness of a frontier lab to pay a premium to eliminate one of its main bottlenecks.\n\nAnthropic has also offered up to 850,000 dollars to specialized Research Engineers in reinforcement learning and senior researchers working on frontier models. These individuals build the infrastructure that enables thousands of experiments to make models reason, learn from rewards, or act as agents. The market for extreme AI salaries has moved towards finding very rare profiles whose work can directly change the capacity or cost of models. This shift began three years ago when prompt engineering, also known as AI trainers, was declared the most attractive job in technology. Many predicted that this engineering would create more and more job opportunities. However, this was only the beginning. A prompt engineer or IA trainer could earn between 263,000 and 352,000 euros annually three years ago. This was an example of the astronomical salaries that major AI labs began to pay to certain AI-related profiles. The Anthropic case from 2023 shows how much the market has changed. The Prompt Engineer and Librarian vacancy was initially offered at 175,000-335,000 dollars annually, requiring experience with LLMs, writing prompting techniques, and basic Python knowledge. Although this job category is still present, its salary has moved further away from the maximum remunerations found. For example, in London, the Head of AI earns between 122,500 and 278,750 pounds, the Machine Learning Engineer between 81,500 and 129,250 pounds, and the AI Engineer between 68,000 and 122,500 pounds. These figures combine real placements by Robert Half's recruiters and approximately 350,000 external vacancies. The paradox is that prompt engineering may be losing value as an independent profession precisely because it is becoming a cross-departmental competency. LinkedIn reports that American job offers requiring AI literacy, which includes prompt engineering skills, have grown by 70% year-over-year in 2026. Instead of disappearing, some of this specialization is integrating into marketing, product, consulting, software, sales, or analysis roles. The change is not about replacing prompt engineers but reducing the premium paid for a capability that is increasingly expected from professionals.",
  "summary": "850.000 dólares al año de sueldo anual. Eso es lo que la IA -y compañías como Anthropic- podría ofrecer a quien sea capaz de acceder a perfiles profesionales de mucho éxito y que brindan retribuciones hipercompetitivas. Leer",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}