AI Engineer (12 months or 18 months fixed-term), Entry Level (Remote)

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Job Summary:

Khan Academy is a nonprofit dedicated to providing free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. The AI Engineer will integrate AI into product features, working with cross-functional teams to develop tools that enhance the quality of AI implementations.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with designers, product managers, and engineers to build AI-driven features that support education use cases.

• Develop test datasets and evaluation criteria for the evaluation of AI outputs

• Measure, maintain, and improve AI output quality over time via experimentation with prompting, scaffolding, and implementation architectures

Qualifications:

Required:

• Experience working in software engineering, data science, or related technical roles.

• Experience with python and/or go preferred.

• Understanding of generative AI models and how to elicit the best performance from them.

• Ability to apply structured, analytical thought and attention to detail with high standards for quality.

• Experience developing evaluation data sets for benchmarking model fit and task-specific performance.

• Ability to analyze interaction data programmatically and manually to identify actionable insights.

• Experience using data to inform strategic decisions.

• Keeping informed about developments in AI and understanding their implications for product competitiveness.

• Strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

• History of working cross-functionally to achieve shared success in organization-wide goals and projects.

• Adaptability to a fast-paced environment and openness to learning new tools and tech.

• Awareness of ethical considerations in AI and machine learning, especially in an educational context.

• Familiarity with strategies for mitigating bias.

• Solid understanding of education technology, curriculum development, and learning science.

• Bachelor’s degree, with a concentration in Computer Science or a related field preferred; Master’s degree preferred.

• 2+ years of transferrable technical experience (e.g., software engineering, ML engineering, data science).

• 1+ years experience related to education (ed tech, instructional design, learning science research, teaching, etc.).

• Experience applying AI, machine learning, and natural language processing concepts to real life problems.

• High level familiarity with the architecture and operation of large language models.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree preferred.

• Experience with python and/or go preferred.

Company:

Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization that provides a free world class education for anyone, anywhere. Founded in 2006, headquartered in Port Washington, New York, USA, team size 51-200 employees, currently Growth Stage. Khan Academy has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.