The job market for AI/LLM engineers is extraordinarily strong right now, to the point that a former forward-deployed engineer now turns down offers he once would have jumped at, thanks to an overwhelming volume of inbound interest.

An AI engineer at a San Francisco decacorn calls this the best job market he's ever seen, saying inbound interest is so high he can afford to reject companies he once dreamed of joining. ✦ AI generated

AI Engineer at an AI decacorn, San Francisco, US · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2026-07-07 · original ↗

It's the greatest job market I've ever seen. I'm an L5 former FDE, now SWE, who has worked on LLM apps for ~2 years. The inbound top of the funnel is bonkers, and I find myself saying 'no' to places that I would have once killed to work at.

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