Content Engineer (Editorial)

Reporting to Portfolio Director

About Packt

Packt's mission is to help the world put software to work in new ways, through the delivery of effective learning and information services to IT professionals. We are a technical publisher and learning provider with over 400 staff based across the globe, primarily in India and the UK. Our products have global relevance, and our multimedia portfolio includes over 7,000 books, e-books, audiobooks, and video courses. For more details, visit www.packtpub.com.

Within Packt, the publishing business is spread across a number of verticals, each focused on a particular domain. This role is for the LLM Engineering vertical.

About the LLM Engineering Vertical

We are a cross-functional, impact-driven team powering one of the most exciting phases of the Tech Revolution i.e. LLMs

Generative AI and LLM Engineering verticals deals with 3 major topic areas:

Natural Language Processing: Enables machines to understand and generate human language across text and speech. Used for search, chatbots, translation, summarization, sentiment analysis, and information extraction.

Computer Vision: Gives computers the ability to perceive and interpret images and video. Includes classification, detection, segmentation, tracking, and OCR for applications from healthcare to autonomy.

Large Language Models: Large transformer models trained on vast corpora to predict and produce coherent text (and code). Powers chat assistants, Q&A, summarization, and agents; adaptable via fine-tuning and retrieval augmentation.

Role Overview

As a Content Engineer in the LLM Engineering Vertical, you will co-own products from concept to publication. This means shaping books, newsletters, live events, and research assets so they are technically robust, clear, and commercially relevant.

The Content Engineer has a wider remit than traditional editorial roles, requiring ownership across the full lifecycle of each product. The role demands a high degree of adaptability to work across a diverse and expanding portfolio of products. You will be the Directly Responsible Individual (DRI) for the products that you work on, utilising skills such as:

1. Market awareness (understanding user needs, competition, and trends).
2. Domain curiosity (building literacy in toolchains, workflows, and user roles).
3. A product mindset (ensuring outputs are aligned with audience impact and business goals).

You'll work closely with authors, reviewers, and cross-functional colleagues to ensure that every title or product succeeds with both its audience and its commercial outcomes.

Working at Packt Shaping the Future of Tech Learning

Packt is a digital-first tech publisher on a mission to help the world put software to work. We've recently undergone a company-wide transformation to better serve tech professionals in a rapidly evolving, AI-powered world. Our business is now structured around small, agile vertical teams, each focused on a specific tech domain or topic area, that combine publishing, product, relationship leadership, and marketing capabilities to build tailored content and learning solutions.

This means we move fast, experiment often, and work closely with our audiences to understand what they need. We're looking for people who thrive in a collaborative, entrepreneurial environment and who are motivated by delivering real impact, whether through building innovative products, shaping insightful content, enabling smarter systems and operations, or building and sustaining strong relationships with expert contributors and communities.

If you're excited by meaningful work, curious about how technology is reshaping careers and industries, and want to be part of a mission-led team, Packt could be the right place for you.

What You Will Do

Editorial Excellence:

• Guide authors from outline to final draft, ensuring products meet technical and audience expectations.
• Perform substantive developmental edits across various product types, focusing on structure, clarity, flow, and learner outcomes.
• Work on fast paced innovative projects like converting interviews and transcripts into book chapters.
• Evaluate content against JTBD/user insights and competitive benchmarks.
• Balance speed and quality, making calls on readiness, rework, or cancellation when necessary.

Cross-Functional Contribution:

• Collaborate with Growth Leads and Relationship Leads to shape positioning, newsletters, and campaign messaging.
• Write/curate engaging content for the LLM newsletter.
• Provide portfolio health checks and content diagnostics for planning.

Domain Engagement:

• Master the stack: Build a basic understanding of frameworks (PyTorch/JAX), model APIs (OpenAI/Llama/Mistral), orchestration (LangChain/DSPy), vector stores, serving/optimization (vLLM/TGI/ONNX), MLOps, tuning (LoRA/DPO), eval/observability, and guardrails.
• Track trends: Follow the roadmaps of multimodal & agents, structured outputs, long-context RAG, small/quantized models, synthetic data, on-device privacy, governance, and costlatency wins.
• Engage the field: Work with users/OSS communities; mine pain points and metrics; run A/B tests and pilots; publish templates; convert feedback into titles and product opportunities.

Who You Are

The work we do is fast-paced, demanding, and intellectually challenging. We are looking for dynamic candidates with an interest in technology and in helping tech professionals to learn. You will need strong oral and written communication skills, attention to detail, and excellent organization and time-management skills. You will need to be proactive in troubleshooting and problem-solving, upbeat, enthusiastic, and motivated. You will be a demonstrated self-starter who is focused and calm under pressure.

• A critical thinker who balances detail-oriented editing with big-picture product impact.
• Curious about LLM development and generative AI and eager to learn toolchains and workflows.
• A strong communicator, confident in coaching authors and collaborating across teams.
• Adaptable, comfortable working on both books and fast-cycle non-book formats.

Must-have skills:

• Substantive/developmental editing experience, ideally with technical or instructional content.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, structured, reader-friendly content.
• Experience managing author/SME relationships and providing actionable feedback.
• Excellent English-language proficiency and editorial judgment.
• Comfort contributing beyond editing: supporting positioning, campaigns, and derived content.
• Technical confidence and ability to pick up new concepts and tools quickly.

Good-to-have skills:

• Prior exposure to LLM/Gen AI toolchains or a general passion for technology.
• Experience with live/derived content formats (events, labs, newsletters, research).
• Familiarity with AI tools for editorial workflows and content research.

Why Work at Packt

We are a global and remote-first business with most of our team based in India and the UK. We recognize how important our people are and acknowledge and support the things that are important to them. Our culture is open and informal and based around learning. We love sharing ideas and we want everyone to feel that they have an input into how the business works. We are a fun place to work but with a focus on performance and personal development providing opportunities for personal growth and career progression. We try to achieve this by:

• Ensuring a positive working environment for all team members, supportive of flexible and remote work.
• Supporting individual development through growth opportunities and internal mobility.
• Encouraging social collaboration within teams and communities and knowledge-sharing.
• Fostering a culture that supports a healthy work-life balance.

We focus on the full employee experience. We seek to achieve this by:

• Providing a broad range of benefits and initiatives.
• Advocating a healthy lifestyle where wellbeing is seen as an essential responsibility.
• Celebrating success stories and encouraging peer-to-peer recognition.
• Fostering a culture of self-development.
• Providing a work environment where the best idea wins, and challenges are encouraged.

Benefits:

You will also have access to a range of flexible benefits that are designed to help you make the most of your time with us.

• Bonus scheme
• 5 day working week
• 25 days annual holiday (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible hours: choose how, when, and where you work within India
• Training programs and Certification

Salary Range - INR 30K-170K fixed pay per month (skills and/or experience dependent)

Disclaimer: Packt does not authorize any third-party consultancies, influencers, or agencies to offer employment opportunities on our behalf. We are not involved in any financial transactions with these parties. Our hiring process is managed internally, and all applications should be made through the official procedures outlined in our job listings.