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Context Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011

Engineering · Emerging · in 0% of HN hiring posts · 1 open roles at 1 company · median $112k

Designs what a model sees: retrieval, memory, tools and instructions assembled into the context window.

New: first seen Aug 2026, job board

Why it exists

Written from the sources below

In June 2025 Tobi Lutke and Andrej Karpathy argued that 'context engineering' describes the real skill better than prompt engineering: filling the model's context window with the right instructions, retrieved data, tools and memory. LangChain, Simon Willison and Anthropic wrote it up within months, and the phrase began appearing in job titles.

  1. Coined"I really like the term context engineering over prompt engineering"Tobi Lutke on X, Jun 2025 · backs: context engineering proposed over prompt engineering
  2. EssayThe rise of "context engineering"LangChain, Jun 2025 · backs: the term spreads among agent builders
  3. Coined"+1 for context engineering over prompt engineering"Andrej Karpathy on X, Jun 2025 · backs: context engineering fills the context window for industrial LLM apps
  4. EssayContext engineeringSimon Willison, Jun 2025 · backs: the term picked up by practitioners
  5. DefinedEffective context engineering for AI agentsAnthropic, Sep 2025 · backs: a lab defines the practice for agents

Where it is posted

Sectors

No open postings yet.

Cities

  • Washington1

Countries and remote

  • United States1
Remote option0%

Posted pay

Median $112k from 1 postings that state a base range (USD a year).

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Who is hiring for it

Open postings on their own job boards, read 5h ago
#CompanyOpen roles
1Accenture Federal ServicesA company hiring most for Data Engineer and DevOps Engineer.1

Open roles

Open role$64k to $160k

Context Engineer

Washington, DC

Accenture Federal ServicesPosting ↗
Role
Context EngineerAccenture Federal ServicesWashington, DC$64k to $160k

Lineage

Share of Hacker News hiring posts

0 posts since Apr 2011
November 2026 0 of 207 postings, 0%
3-month averageEach month

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About this title

Designs what a model sees: retrieval, memory, tools and instructions assembled into the context window.

Also counted: context engineering

Median posted salary $112k from 1 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.