AI Engineer - Core Education

TL;DR

AI Engineer (Edtech): Building and scaling LLM-powered educational assistants (ORB Chat) that deliver personalized, culturally responsive learning experiences with an accent on advancing the intelligence of ORB Chat and connecting academic progress with future career opportunities. Focus on designing and maintaining ETL pipelines for K‑12 curricular data, developing and fine-tuning generative AI models, and ensuring reliability and safety of AI outputs.

Location: Hybrid: Seattle-based AI team with flexibility

Salary: $160K–$185K annual salary

Company

Stemuli is a pioneering technology company at the intersection of AI, gaming, and workforce development, backed by prominent investors, building the world’s first AI-native educational gaming platform to make education and career development personalized, engaging, and accessible.

What you will do

• Build and scale LLM-powered educational assistants (ORB Chat) for personalized learning.
• Design and maintain ETL pipelines for K‑12 curricular data, AI literacy, and workforce skills content.
• Develop and fine-tune generative AI models for problem creation, explanations, and adaptive feedback in math and career-learning contexts.
• Ensure reliability and safety of AI outputs through structured output validation and bias-mitigation techniques.
• Partner with game designers and Unity engineers to integrate AI-driven NPCs into 3D game experiences.
• Collaborate with education researchers to align models with curricula and support equitable outcomes.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience with large language models (LLMs), including prompting, RAG pipelines, and fine-tuning.
• Strong skills in Python and experience with LLMOps platforms (e.g., Weights & Biases).
• Experience building AI-driven tutoring, chatbots, or content-generation systems.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, and software engineering principles.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to define and scale the core AI companion (ORB) at the center of a new global education platform.
• Collaboration with a diverse, world-class team across game design, Unity, backend, and education research.
• Comprehensive benefits package.