Principal AI Engineer

📋 Description

• Build and evolve the AI tutoring system (prompts, agentic workflows, real-time adaptation).
• Run rigorous experiments; develop metrics to measure learning and reliability.
• Design scalable software; integrate AI with platform, content pipelines, and UX.
• Collaborate with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogy into tech.
• Prototype and productionize model interactions; leverage new research.
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability via monitoring, tests, and guardrails.
• Share knowledge and elevate teammates; foster clarity and continuous learning.

🎯 Requirements

• 1+ year building LLM-based systems; strong prompt engineering and agent workflows.
• Design evaluation methods with custom metrics when off-the-shelf options fall short.
• Strong software fundamentals; Python; production infra, cloud, and CI/CD.
• Keeps up with AI research; applies ideas to real problems.
• Empathy for learners and content creators; translate pedagogy into system behavior.
• Holistic reasoning across AI behavior, content, platform features, and UX.
• Familiarity with learning science or eagerness to develop expertise.
• Thrives on ambiguous problems; persistent in exploring solutions.
• Prefers elegant, simple system design.
• Clear communicator; enjoys mentoring in small, high-ownership teams.

🎁 Benefits

• Exciting daily technical challenges.
• Competitive compensation with benefits.
• Flexible working hours.
• Yearly learning budget for conferences and training.
• Global company retreats.
• Equipment budget for home working setup.
• Amazing team to collaborate with.