Khan Academy is looking to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere, and is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to help provide equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers.
Requirements
- 5+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app.
- 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.
- Experience building and maintaining complex software.
- Strong technical project management skills.
- Experience with Go, GraphQL, JavaScript, React & React Native, Redux.
- Familiarity with new technologies like LLMs.
Responsibilities
- Integrating 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.
- Harnessing the power of AI to deliver the product capabilities where applicable.
- Building and maintaining scalable backend services, as well as complex, stateful frontend user interfaces.
- Leading projects and managing technical aspects of the product.
- Writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems.
Other
- Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback.
- Empathy for learners around the world.
- Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors.
- Ability to work in a remote-first culture.
- Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.
