Summary
Join Khan Academy as a Senior AI Engineer for a 24-month fixed term, contributing to equitable learning solutions for under-resourced communities. You will integrate cutting-edge learning science into our product, partner with school districts to scale our tools, and build teacher resources. Leverage AI to enhance product capabilities, particularly with the recent launch of Khanmigo. We are a remote-first organization using Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux, and LLMs. We value a learning mindset and matching engineers to opportunities that challenge them. The role requires strong technical skills, project management experience, and empathy for learners.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app
- In particular, you have built and maintained scalable backend services, as well as complex, stateful frontend user interfaces
- Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products
- Knowledge of common prompt engineering techniques, current state of generative models, and engineering techniques such as RAG
- Strong technical project management skills, as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects
- Experience building and maintaining complex software
- You’ll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems
- You’ll write testable, quality code
- You’ll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions
- Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
- Empathy for learners around the world
- You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning
- You’re motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world
- Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization
- Note: We welcome candidates with experience in any and all technologies
- We don’t require experience in any particular language or tool
- Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you won’t be left in the dark as you learn new technologies
Responsibilities
- Integrate state of the art learning science into our product to enable learners and teachers to quickly identify and address learning gaps on the fly
- Partnering with public school districts with a high percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch students to build and scale our teacher and learner tools to millions of learners who otherwise would not have discovered us
- Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms
- With the recent launch of Khanmigo and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a technology, this role will help harness the power of AI to deliver the product capabilities where applicable
Benefits
- Competitive salaries
- Ample paid time off as needed – Your well-being is a priority
- Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone, with open flexibility as needed, at times
- Generous parental leave
- An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
- The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
- Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups
- And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life
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