Udacity is looking to design and scale content agents and the backend systems that create agentic courses and interactive learning experiences to bridge the talent shortage and skills gaps during digital transformation.
Requirements
- Experience: 5+ years backend engineering (distributed services, APIs, data), including experience with LLM-powered applications.
- Languages: Proficiency in Python or Go; strong API design and service ownership.
- LLMs: Prompting, tool/function calling, RAG, embeddings, evaluation fundamentals, and model limitations/safety.
- Data: SQL (e.g., Postgres), caching (e.g., Redis), queues/streams (e.g., Kafka), and schema design.
- Cloud: Containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), and a major cloud (AWS).
- Quality: Solid testing practices, code reviews, monitoring/logging/tracing, and performance tuning.
- Agents: Experience with agent frameworks (e.g., OpenAI Agents SDK) or custom orchestration.
Responsibilities
- Design: Multi-agent architectures and orchestration patterns for content creation, review, and publishing.
- Build: Production agents and tools, and their CLIs/APIs, in Python and Go to power content creation and interactive learning.
- Orchestrate: Stateful agents, event-driven pipelines and tool/function calling.
- Evaluate: Automated evals, rubrics, safety guardrails, and human-in-the-loop review with clear quality metrics.
- Collaborate: Partner with learning designers to ship learner-first experiences.
- Present On Camera: Be the face and voice of your courses, teaching complex technical concepts with clarity and enthusiasm
- Create Learning Experiences: Develop scripts, demos, and hands-on projects that engage learners emotionally and intellectually
Other
- Appear on camera as the author for your courses, teaching concepts and walking through demos.
- The interview process will assess your potential for teaching on camera—no prior course-creation or on-camera experience is required. We will teach you on the job.
- Communication: Clear written and spoken English; willingness to present on camera and learn teaching best practices.
- You light up when explaining how things work
- You believe great engineering includes great documentation and teaching
