AI Cost Optimization Engineers manage model selection, token budgets, and agentic pipeline economics across frontier models (Claude Sonnet 5, Claude Opus 4.8) and open-weight alternatives (GLM-5.2, Kimi K2.7, DeepSeek V4). As usage-based billing (GitHub Copilot AI Credits, Anthropic agent credit metering) replaces flat subscriptions, companies need engineers who can route workloads to the cheapest model that clears the quality bar and forecast spend across large Claude Code / agent SDK deployments.
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