Prompt Engineer CV Guide: How to Land a Role That Barely Existed Two Years Ago

Prompt engineering sits in an unusual position in the job market. It is real - companies are actively hiring for it, paying competitive salaries, and treating it as a distinct technical competency. It is also frequently dismissed - by technologists who consider it a temporary skill that will be automated away, by HR systems that do not know which job family it belongs to, and by hiring managers who cannot always distinguish genuine expertise from someone who has played with ChatGPT. The result is a peculiar credential problem.