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Role Summary:

  • Design and build the engine for ALX's AI learning platform, solving cold-start path recommendations.
  • Own the design, implementation, and update dynamics of the competency navigation algorithm.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Encode the prerequisite structure of the domain and its priors for cold-start performance.
  • Build LLM processing pipelines for evaluating content and later behavioural and at-risk profiling.
  • Collaborate with a small team and ship production code, not notebooks.

Skill Requirements:

  • Strong probabilistic/Bayesian modelling skills with experience designing models from domain structure.
  • Python expertise and ability to ship production pipelines.
  • Evaluation design experience; desirable: BKT/KST, MLflow, knowledge graphs.

Who You Are:

  • Courage, humility, adventure, initiative, and resilience.
  • Comfortable learning unfamiliar domains quickly and reasoning carefully about assumptions.

ALX Africa

ALX Africa is a non-profit organization dedicated to unlocking Africa's digital future through tech skills training and career acceleration programs. It has hubs in 8 cities across Africa, has graduated over 347,000 learners since 2020, and aims to empower 2 million Africans by 2030.

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