Principal AI Engineer

Overview

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system
• , including prompt architectures, agentic workflows, and real-time adaptive behaviors.
• Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation
• , developing custom metrics and frameworks to measure learning effectiveness and improve model reliability.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable software
• , integrating AI capabilities with platform systems, content pipelines, and user experience components.
• Collaborate cross-functionally
• with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.
• Prototype and productionize novel model interactions
• , leveraging emerging research and capabilities to advance the tutor s intelligence.
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability
• through monitoring, testing, guardrails, and iterative refinement of model behavior.
• Share knowledge and elevate teammates
• , contributing to a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous learning.

Technical

• 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems, with strong prompt engineering intuition and experience designing agentic workflows.
• Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods, including custom metrics and frameworks when off-the-shelf options fall short.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, architectural thinking, and fluency in Python; comfortable working with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD.
• Actively follows AI research and emerging capabilities, applying new ideas creatively to real problems.

Product & Pedagogy

• Strong empathy for learners and content creators; able to translate pedagogical goals into system behavior and product decisions.
• Ability to reason holistically across AI behavior, content structure, platform features, and user experience.
• Familiarity with learning science or a desire to develop expertise.

Character & Collaboration

• Drawn to difficult, ambiguous problems with no clear blueprint; persistent in exploring and refining solutions.
• Preference for elegance and simplicity in system design.
• Communicates clearly across mediums and enjoys mentoring and collaborating in small, high-ownership teams.