Principal AI Engineer - AI Tutor
Remote · United Kingdom or United States
Job Summary
Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system, including prompt architectures, agentic workflows, and real-time adaptive behaviors. Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation with custom metrics to measure learning effectiveness and improve model reliability. Design and implement scalable, maintainable software that integrates AI capabilities with platform systems, content pipelines, and user experience components. Collaborate cross-functionally with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions. Prototype and productionize novel model interactions to advance the tutor’s intelligence. Ensure quality, safety, and observability through monitoring, testing, guardrails, and iterative refinement of model behavior. Share knowledge and elevate teammates, contributing to a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous learning.
Required Qualifications
- Experience: 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems
- Strong prompt engineering intuition
- Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods
- Fluency in Python
- Experience with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD
- Familiarity with learning science or willingness to develop expertise
- Ability to translate pedagogical goals into system behavior
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