The annual salary of AI product managers in non-technical positions is nearly one million U.S. dollars, and American companies have started a "fight for talent"!

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Five years ago, a "2018 Internet School Recruitment High Salary List" was circulated on the Internet, refreshing the popularity of artificial intelligence to a new height. At that time, for students in the fields of deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, an annual salary of 250,000 yuan seemed to be just a "cabbage price".

Today, when generative AI opens a new development paradigm, "the future does not belong to AI, but to new programmers who have mastered AI." Yesterday, at the Spark Cognitive Model V2. Director Liu Qingfeng named the core competitiveness in the AI era.

In this regard, a battle for "AI talents" is being fiercely staged at home and abroad. According to the "Wall Street Journal", technology giants such as Amazon and Netflix have increased their efforts to recruit AI talents. Even the annual salary of AI product managers in non-technical positions is nearly 100. Ten thousand U.S. dollars.

The job demand related to generative artificial intelligence is skyrocketing

As various Internet companies join the wave of large-scale model research and development, and Generative AI (GenAI) stimulates the birth of new applications, innovative companies must have a strong supply of talents if they want not to lose to competitors.

According to data from Indeed, the world's leading recruitment website, in recent months, only in the United States, the number of jobs related to generating artificial intelligence on Indeed has increased sharply, as shown in the figure below.

In terms of subdivision, the surge in demand mainly started this year, and the demand for jobs related to generative AI showed a gap in the first place.

The fierce competition for AI talents with high salaries set off around the world has not only heated up rapidly abroad, but also presents a similar situation in China. Through the "2023 AIGC Talent Trend Report" released by Maimai Gaopin Talent Think Tank, we found that the number of AIGC talent recruitment in 2023 will hit a record high.

According to the "AIGC Employment Trend Big Data Report 2023" released by Liepin Big Data Research Institute, the number of new AI and AIGC jobs in the first quarter of 2023 is 5.63 times that of the first quarter of 2020.

According to the "2023 Chinese Developer Survey Report" released by CSDN, 41% of developers started to dabble in AI-related development work in 2022.

Image recognition and algorithm research are the most popular

So which jobs are the most popular? No name has been named in the latest foreign report, but we have found some directions based on the investigation reports of various domestic companies.

According to the analysis of tens of thousands of developers surveyed by CSDN, image recognition and recommendation systems, and face recognition are the three major application scenarios that developers focus on, and this is also the main development direction of developers.

From the perspective of subdivided technology, the report released by the Maimai Talents Think Tank pointed out that on the demand side, among the hotly recruited positions in the AIGC field, there is a strong demand for R&D talents such as algorithm engineers, natural language processing, and image recognition.

On the supply side, most of the hot-invested positions in the AIGC field are non-technical positions such as AI product managers and operations.

It is worth noting that among the hotly recruited positions in the AIGC field, the salaries of image recognition, algorithm researcher, and deep learning positions have all reached one million yuan. In addition, as a non-technical post, the AIGC product manager has a salary level of 900,000 yuan, which has a relatively large advantage compared with other fields and attracts a large number of product talents to deliver.

As one of the main bargaining chips for talents, high salary has become the focus of competition. In some cases, the salary level of AI talents has surpassed the average level of traditional industries, and the annual salary of high-level AI talents has even reached staggering figures.

Amid this wave, recruiters say, realizing that hot AI specialists can land multiple job offers, has led many companies to set salaries in the six-figure range, complete with bonuses and stock awards, to lure experienced employees. .

Amazon, Netflix and other giants are fighting for AI talents, with salaries as high as $900,000

As far as the United States is concerned, according to the "Wall Street Journal" report, many companies have invested heavily in order to attract AI talents.

First, the streaming service Netflix recently released a recruitment notice on its website, hoping to recruit a machine learning platform product manager, with an annual salary ranging from $300,000 to $900,000, including basic salary and bonus.

In detail, this position requires candidates to work with engineers to define the MLP's strategic vision, goals, key results and success metrics. They can report to the office in Los Gatos, CA or work remotely in the West Coast time zone. However, there is no mention of a college degree requirement in the job posting.

Second, as a cloud computing giant, Amazon has been working to integrate artificial intelligence technology into its various business lines in recent years, including since 2020, it has been using AI-based tracking technology to ensure that employees in offices and warehouses are Maintain social distance during the epidemic; at the same time, Amazon also quietly acquired Snackable.AI, a small AI company focused on audio.

Earlier this month, Amazon offered a salary of up to $340,300 a year, not including bonuses, for a senior manager of applied science and generative artificial intelligence.

Amazon's job description on LinkedIn states: "This position is primarily responsible for leading a scientific team focused on computer vision, latent diffusion models, and underlying models related to product-generated imagery and video."

Furthermore, there is a growing need for AI in the industry, as intelligent machine learning software can actually replace basic jobs such as project management and software development:

*Walmart retail media AI director earns up to $288,000 a year, while Google offers a lawyer specializing in AI up to $351,000 a year (not including bonuses, equity or benefits), according to Indeed The tech giant provides consulting services on the legal risks of technology.

• Match Group's online dating platform Hinge is hiring a vice president of artificial intelligence with a base salary of $332,000 to $398,000 a year.
• Upwork, which operates a marketplace for freelancers and other professionals, has posted salaries for a vice president of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the range of $260,000 to $437,000.
• Goldman Sachs is also in the market for some AI-related positions, including VP of Applied AI, Senior AI Engineer and Conversational AI Data Scientist, which pay as much as $250,000, $240,000 and $190,000 a year, respectively Dollar.

Real Reality

However, it’s important to be aware that “the crown bears the weight it wears” and not all positions are well paid.

An increasingly common job title, engineer, earns an average annual salary of about $130,000, while machine learning product engineer jobs average $143,589, according to data from Willis Towers Watson's survey of employer compensation.

Many of the positions in artificial intelligence research or development require a degree in fields such as computer science, mathematics or data science, or extensive related experience.

Many employers and recruiters say that a personal understanding of data analysis and statistics would be beneficial, as large language models can make judgments based on probabilities; Will be a bonus item.

Therefore, for AI talents who want to get a high salary, they must not only have a solid technical foundation, but also have innovation ability, teamwork ability, business understanding and problem-solving ability, and a continuous learning and development mentality. These comprehensive capabilities are likely to make them stand out in the highly competitive AI talent market.

In addition, there is another challenge that cannot be ignored. Now all walks of life need different artificial intelligence talents. For example, Walmart is hiring for positions on its Conversational AI team with base salaries ranging from $168,000 to $252,000 per year; Procter & Gamble is looking for AI engineers with base salaries ranging from $110,000 to $132,000 per year.

This means that the development space for AI talents is not limited to the Internet industry, but also includes various fields such as real estate, e-commerce, and manufacturing, and there will be AI applications.

Therefore, candidates also need to choose carefully on the basis of certain professional knowledge of each industry.

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