Principal AI Engineer - AI Tutor
Remote · United Kingdom or United States
Job Summary
DataCamp is hiring a Principal AI Engineer to build and evolve an AI tutoring system that delivers real-time adaptive learning experiences. The role involves designing and prototyping model interactions, implementing scalable software with AI capabilities, running rigorous experiments and evaluation with custom metrics, integrating AI components with content pipelines and user experience, collaborating with educators and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions, and ensuring safety, observability, and quality through guardrails and monitoring. The ideal candidate has strong Python software engineering skills, experience with LLM-based systems and agentic workflows, knowledge of evaluation methods, and a learner-centered mindset with the ability to mentor teammates and work cross-functionally in a fully remote setup across listed countries.
Required Qualifications
- 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems with strong prompt engineering intuition and experience designing agentic workflows
- Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods and custom metrics/frameworks
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and architectural thinking
- Fluency in Python; comfortable with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD
- Active engagement with AI research and emerging capabilities; applying ideas to real problems
- Empathy for learners and content creators; translating 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
- Clear communication across mediums; mentoring and collaboration in high-ownership teams
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