Prompt Engineer (Contract)

Who we are at Osmo:

Osmo is a digital olfaction company, on a mission to give computers a sense of smell to improve the health and wellbeing of human life. Why? Our sense of smell both enriches and saves lives, and has a deep and direct connection to our emotions and memory. This foundational understanding of smell's impact has directly informed the development of our latest innovation: Generation .

Generation is a new kind of fragrance house powered by Olfactory Intelligence (OI) to blend AI with world-class perfumery. It will help brands create emotionally resonant scents faster, more accessibly, and with greater creative clarity. Our technology allows us to explore vast scent possibilities, discover novel ingredients, and design fragrances informed by both data and artistry.

Beyond fragrance, Olfactory Intelligence has applications across industries including manufacturing, security, medicine, and more. We believe in the power of automation and thoughtfully applied AI/ML to solve problems beyond the reach of human intuition alone. Osmo is headquartered in New York, NY, with a new facility in New Jersey, and offices in Somerville, MA.

Osmo is seeking a motivated Prompt Engineer to collaborate directly with our CTO and Head of Applied Research to create innovative solutions empowering our Marketing and Sales teams. Osmo is building the operating system to digitize smell, significantly expanding the dimension of human sensory experiences in the digital world. This position is a 3-month contract hybrid or remote role, with the potential to convert to full-time employment based on your performance and team needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, experiment with, and refine prompts to generate personalized marketing content and targeted cold outreach emails using large language models (LLMs).

• Collaborate closely with Marketing and Sales teams to deeply understand their requirements and translate them into effective, prompt-driven strategies.

• Build and iterate on internal tools that streamline the generation, evaluation, and tuning of prompts, enhancing overall team productivity.

• Continuously assess and optimize prompt performance, leveraging user feedback and data-driven insights for iterative improvement.

• Maintain clear and detailed documentation of prompts, methodologies, and best practices to ensure knowledge sharing across teams.

• Stay current with emerging trends, models, and frameworks in AI, particularly those relevant to marketing automation, personalized content generation, and advancements in LLMs.

Required Qualifications

• Active and advanced user of ChatGPT, Claude, or similar AI tools with demonstrated experience in utilizing custom prompts to achieve targeted outcomes.

• Hands-on experience in sales, marketing, engineering, design, or related fields, showcasing your ability to contribute effectively from concept through successful execution.

• Strong creative and analytical skills, proven through iterative improvement of prompts based on evaluation and data-driven feedback.

• Ability to effectively translate marketing and sales requirements into compelling, personalized content using highly optimized prompts.

• Passion and enthusiasm for staying at the forefront of AI developments, especially in applications to real-world business scenarios.

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

• Previous experience specifically utilizing LLMs for marketing automation, personalized content generation, or scaled cold outreach.

• Familiarity with marketing and sales automation tools such as HubSpot and Clay.

• Proven success in building intuitive and efficient internal workflows or tools that significantly boost team productivity.

• Demonstrated experience working closely with sales and marketing teams, showing a clear understanding of sales funnels, customer psychology, and effective messaging strategies.

If this role inspires you we’d encourage you to apply. We are committed to recruiting, developing, and retaining an incredible team optimized for a diversity of thought, background, and approaches. All employment decisions and responsibilities are determined based on current ability and your ability to grow, without regard to race, color, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion, age, marital status, physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Osmo does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Osmo or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by the Osmo Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Osmo and Osmo will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.