In a new job ad, Netflix is calling for someone with A.I. chops—and they’re willing to shell out just shy of $1 million a year for the right person. The Product Manager for Netflix’s Machine Learning Platform (MLP) will earn anywhere from $300,000 to $900,000 for “defining the strategic vision” for MLP, getting feedback from A.I. practitioners, and presenting their strategies to stakeholders.
It’s part of a new wave of A.I. jobs that can be extremely lucrative, thanks to investors funneling money into projects like ChatGPT, willing to risk its potential for bugginess or catastrophic effects. This level of funding has created six-figure roles like prompt engineers who can be compensated as much as $335,000 a year for monitoring and assisting ChatGPT-like products. But these golden nugget positions can come at the cost of other workers; ChatGPT has already made some roles obsolete, and a new report shows that A.I. related innovations have already cost nearly 4,000 people their jobs in May.
