AI/ML Engineer (Edtech)

TL;DR

AI/ML Engineer (Edtech): Developing an AI teacher that listens, speaks, and adapts to children with an accent on agent reliability, learner adaptation, and evaluation systems. Focus on building end-to-end AI features, designing educational quality metrics, and implementing low-latency inference for real-world products.

Location: Onsite in San Francisco, CA. Must have US work authorization (sponsorship available for those already authorized).

Salary: $155,000 – $205,000 + Equity

Company

hirify.global is a public benefit corporation building the world's first AI teacher to maximize the potential of every child.

What you will do

• Own AI systems and features end-to-end, from identifying product opportunities to shipping production improvements used by children worldwide.
• Collaborate with learning experts to build infrastructure measuring educational quality, engagement, safety, and latency.
• Design and improve the agent harness that powers the tutoring experience and determines how the tutor adapts to each child.
• Develop learner profiling systems to build models of child strengths, gaps, pace, and engagement patterns.
• Create feedback loops and data flywheels to continuously improve product quality through usage, evaluation, and experimentation.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building AI products in an engineering or research role.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to write clean, maintainable Python code.
• Experience building and operating evaluation or measurement systems (e.g., AI evals).
• Ability to read recent ML papers and implement components of the stack.
• Proficiency in applied mathematics and linear algebra to contribute to research discussions.
• Must be based in San Francisco, CA for in-person collaboration.

Nice to have

• Public projects that demonstrate technical creativity.
• Strong product intuition regarding what is worth measuring.
• Depth in low-latency inference at scale.
• Experience with model training and familiarity with speech systems.

Culture & Benefits

• High-impact mission focused on child development at scale.
• Collaborative environment with experts from Stanford, Berkeley, Google, and Apple.
• Fast-paced shipping cycle with weekly updates and direct testing with children.
• Support for immigration (e.g., O-1 visas) for candidates with existing US work authorization.
• Culture of open, direct communication grounded in empathy and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.