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US

  • Define both the product and technical foundation as the first Founding Engineer, shaping engineering culture and product roadmap.
  • Own full-stack product development across frontend, backend, AI systems, and infrastructure to build AI-powered tutoring experiences.
  • Partner closely with the founder on product direction, architecture, hiring, and engineering culture to scale personalized education.

Full-stack Development AI/ML Product Design User Experience LLMs

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Global

  • Own the direction of the AI that powers Nectir: how it thinks, what context it sees, and what it remembers.
  • Work across frontier models to pick the right model for the right job, tuning cost, latency, and quality.
  • Ship AI-facing features end to end, partnering with the full-stack team to integrate AI capabilities into the platform.

Nectir is the secure AI infrastructure purpose-built for schools, providing 24/7 personalized learning support grounded in course content. Trusted by 80,000 students across 100+ campuses, Nectir has raised $18.5M from leading investors and is backed by independent research demonstrating a 7.5% campuswide GPA increase.

$162,800–$177,600/yr
North America

  • Work directly with customers to understand how consequential work gets done and turn rough problems into working AI-native products.
  • Build across frontend, backend, infrastructure, tools, memory, retrieval, evals, and observability, designing token-efficient agent loops.
  • Harden the last mile: handle permissions, missing information, forms, handoffs, retries, approvals, exceptions, and recovery to make agents dependable in real firms.

Rowan builds AI-powered systems that automate complex workflows for financial services firms, focusing on dependable execution rather than just generating answers. As a small, fast-moving team, they emphasize craftsmanship, customer proximity, and iterative building.

Europe Middle East

  • Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system with prompt architectures and agentic workflows.
  • Design and implement scalable software integrating AI with platform systems.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with educators and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.

DataCamp empowers everyone with data and AI skills through practical learning experiences. It serves over 17 million learners and 6,000+ companies, including 80% of Fortune 1000, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and transparency.

Global

  • Own the agent layer orchestrating specialist agents for investor research, outreach, and conversations.
  • Build and scale the matching engine using embeddings, ranking, and feedback loops.
  • Ship production code end to end with Python, Postgres, and AI tooling.

Paires is a fundraising platform that pairs founders with investors using AI agents for outreach and relationship management. It is a small, senior, flat team that is profitable and self-funded.

Global

  • Coach students and professionals in software engineering, including architecture, frontend frameworks, and AI-driven development like AI system design, LLM fine-tuning, and prompt engineering.
  • Support career development through resume review, interview prep, salary negotiation, and networking strategies.
  • Set your own hours and rates, host virtual sessions, and partner with the team to deliver a high-quality, supportive experience.

Leland is building the home for ambition in the age of AI, connecting people with the experts, programs, and communities they need to achieve their goals. Since 2021, they've helped tens of thousands of people and raised $19M from world-class investors, fostering a collaborative, high-energy, and AI-native culture.

AI Engineer

Breezy
Europe

  • Design and build AI-enabled features for education products, working with stakeholders to understand real workflows.
  • Integrate LLM APIs and develop evaluation approaches for quality, consistency, and reliability.
  • Build prototypes quickly, test against real use cases, and productionize successful approaches.

We are a global EdTech company building a suite of AI-enabled products for students, teachers, and education partners to support better learning outcomes at scale. Our team fosters a culture of experimentation and disciplined engineering.

US

  • Design, build, and ship customer-facing product features end-to-end.
  • Own architecture across backend systems, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop AI-powered workflows leveraging modern LLM technologies.

This seed-stage healthcare technology startup is building AI-powered infrastructure to modernize care coordination and benefit administration for vulnerable populations. The founding team is creating a culture centered around ownership, collaboration, and craftsmanship.

US

  • Own the application engineering strategy and execution across backend, mobile, and desktop.
  • Lead and grow a small, senior applications team, including backend, mobile, and desktop engineers.
  • Set the architectural direction for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered product workflows, APIs, and client integrations.

France

  • Serve as primary technical and instructional partner for 4-5 lab schools, providing coaching and build support.
  • Co-design and implement AI-powered learning tools with school leaders to meet classroom needs.
  • Define quality standards and contribute insights to improve internal tools and learning frameworks.

Partner company seeks a Senior Learning Engineer for a high-impact role at the intersection of education, AI, and instructional design, supporting a network of lab schools. This remote-first organization offers a competitive compensation package and a flexible work environment.

  • Build and ship AI features end-to-end, from model to system to user experience.
  • Design and iterate on prompts, tools, memory, and agent workflows for real-world reliability.
  • Debug full-stack issues and optimize for latency, cost, and production performance.

A1 builds a proactive smart assistant for everyday users, bringing intelligence to conversations, errands, organizing, and workflows with minimal prompting. The team is small, world-class, and focuses on rapid iteration and shipping high-quality AI products.

US

  • Own problems end-to-end from discovery to shipped product, designing flows, systems, and interfaces that are simple and scalable.
  • Prototype and validate ideas quickly using modern tools, including AI-assisted ones, and bring ideas to life beyond static design.
  • Collaborate deeply with engineers and PMs, contributing directly to implementation and shaping how design evolves at Zen.

Zen Educate is a platform that connects educators with schools to manage staffing needs, improving outcomes for children and saving schools money. They have a small, mission-driven design team with big ambitions, fostering a culture of high ownership and low bureaucracy.

Global

  • Own AI product builds end to end, from concept through production, on client engagements.
  • Prototype fast with LLMs, then harden into production with data pipelines, integrations, and evals.
  • Serve as the primary technical contact for clients, giving clarity to both engineers and executives.

We're an AI services firm that helps companies figure out where and how to use AI. We've bootstrapped to roughly 40 people, worked with 30+ clients, and 4x'd revenue recently.