Prompt Engineer

NTT DATA North America; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible spending account / HSA

Life and AD&D insurance

Short and long term disability

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

401k with company match

Voluntary or legally-required benefits

Job summary

NTT DATA North America is seeking a Prompt Engineer in Jersey City, NJ to design, test, and govern prompts for AIRP LLM applications and citizen-development experiences. You will ensure accurate outputs, grounded information, and safe interactions while aligning with compliance and cost considerations.

You will build and maintain prompt libraries, test suites, and guardrails, collaborating with engineers to deploy in production and monitor performance across enterprise use cases like KYC,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience with LLM behavior, prompt design and evaluation.
• 3+ years with major AI platforms (OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, etc.).
• 3+ years debugging LLM outputs with structured testing and refinement.
• 3+ years handling prompt-security risks including data leakage and prompts attacks.
• 3+ years creating repeatable prompt templates and enterprise governance evidence.

Responsibilities

• Design prompts for chatbots, copilots, RAG systems, and knowledge assistants.
• Develop system prompts, few-shot examples, tool-use instructions, and response formats.
• Optimize prompts for governance, compliance, and risk sign-offs.
• Build reusable prompt libraries aligned to enterprise standards and guardrails.
• Evaluate prompt performance using task success, groundedness, and safety metrics.
• Collaborate with engineers to implement versioning, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
• Conduct adversarial testing for prompt injections and data leakage.

Skills

LLM behavior

Prompt design

Tokenization

Context windows

RAG

Embeddings

Model limitations

Tools

OpenAI APIs

Azure OpenAI

AWS Bedrock

Anthropic

LangChain

LlamaIndex

Semantic Kernel

Copilot Studio

Job description

Req ID: 382110

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization,

We are currently seeking a Prompt Engineer to join our team in Jersey City, New Jersey (US-NJ), United States (US).

Prompt Engineer

LLM Interaction Design / Prompt Optimization / GenAI Application Quality

Role purpose

Design, test, govern, and continuously improve prompts, system instructions, conversation flows, and interaction patterns for AIRP LLM applications and related citizen-development experiences. The role ensures model outputs are accurate, grounded, safe, consistent, cost-aware, and aligned with business and compliance expectations.

Client-specific emphasis

• Prompt work must support enterprise business use cases, not generic chatbot experimentation.
• Reusable prompt patterns should be suitable for AIRP and, where applicable, Copilot Studio / Power Platform citizen-development scenarios.
• Candidates must understand prompt security, sensitive data handling, citations/grounding, and structured evaluation.

Primary Ownership

• Prompt patterns, system instructions, response templates, and conversation policies for AIRP LLM use cases.
• Prompt testing, versioning, evaluation, and quality-improvement workflows.
• Reusable prompt libraries and guardrail patterns for business teams and responsible citizen development where applicable.

Key Responsibilities

• Design prompts for chatbots, copilots, RAG systems, document analysis, summarization, workflow agents, knowledge assistants, and decision-support experiences.
• Develop system prompts, few-shot examples, tool-use instructions, response formats, escalation logic, citation behavior, and conversation policies.
• Optimize prompts for KYC support, credit underwriting support, governance tracking, pitch book generation, Banker 360, Customer 360, deal library intelligence, financial crime quality, and sanctions screening use cases.
• Build reusable prompt libraries and templates aligned to enterprise standards, business domains, AIRP patterns, and citizen-development guardrails.
• Evaluate prompt performance using metrics such as task success, groundedness, hallucination rate, completeness, safety, user satisfaction, latency, and token cost.
• Partner with engineers to implement prompt versioning, testing, deployment, and monitoring in production systems and CI/CD workflows.
• Support RAG quality by assessing retrieval context, chunking quality, source citation behavior, response synthesis, and missing-context behavior.
• Conduct adversarial testing for prompt injection, jailbreaks, instruction conflicts, sensitive-data leakage, unsafe outputs, and unauthorized tool use.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience with LLM behavior, prompt design, tokenization, context windows, RAG, embeddings, and model limitations.
• 3+ years of experience with OpenAI APIs, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Anthropic, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Semantic Kernel, Copilot Studio, or similar platforms.
• 3+ years of experience debugging LLM outputs using structured testing, error analysis, and iterative refinement.
• 3+ years of experience with prompt-security risks including prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, hallucination, and instruction conflicts.
• 3+ years of experience creating repeatable prompt templates and evaluation evidence suitable for enterprise governance.

Preferred Experience

• Strong writing, analytical, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Background in NLP, conversational AI, UX writing, technical writing, product design, knowledge management, business analysis, or financial-services operations.
• Experience in financial services, legal, compliance, risk, operations, customer support, banker productivity, or enterprise knowledge domains.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Power Platform, prompt registries, A/B testing, human review workflows, and evaluation tooling.

#DataFID

NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for U.S.-based positions. The starting pay range for this role is $104,904 - $182,125 per year. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance.

This position is eligible for company benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance with an employer contribution, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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