Senior AI Engineer I (24 months fixed-term)
Senior AI Engineer I (24 months fixed-term)
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$ 137871 - 170772
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ABOUT KHAN ACADEMY
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free world-class education to anyone anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects focusing on math and science. We have over 181 million registered learners globally and are committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide focusing on learners in historically under-resourced communities.
OUR COMMUNITY
Our students teachers and parents come from all walks of life and so do team includes people from academia traditional/non-traditional education big tech companies and tiny startups. We hire great people from diverse backgrounds and experiences because it makes our company value diversity equity inclusion and belonging as necessary to achieve our mission and impact the communities we know that transforming education starts in-house with learning about ourselves and our colleagues. We strive to be world-class in investing in our people and commit to developing you as a professional.
THE ROLE
We are seeking a Senior AI Engineer for a 24 months fixed-term. Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers and guided by our Engineering Principles. You might work on projects such as:
- Integrating state of the art learning science into our product to enable learners and teachers to quickly identify and address learning gaps on the fly.
- Partnering with public school districts with a high percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch students to build and scale our teacher and learner tools to millions of learners who otherwise would not have discovered us.
- Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms.
With the recent launch of Khanmigo and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a technology this role will help harness the power of AI to deliver the product capabilities where applicable.
We are a remote-first organization and we strive to build using technology that is best suited to solving problems for our learners. Currently we build with Go GraphQL JavaScript React & React Native Redux and we adopt new technologies like LLMs when theyll help us better achieve our goals. At Khan one of our values is Cultivate Learning Mindsets so for us its important that were working with all of our engineers to help match the right opportunity to the right individual in order to ensure every engineer is operating at their learning edge.
You can read about our latest work on our Engineering Blog. A few highlights:
- Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
- Our Transition to React Native
- Go Services One Goliath Project
- How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale
- How to upgrade hundreds of React components without breaking production
WHAT YOU BRING
- 5 years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app. In particular you have built and maintained scalable backend services as well as complex stateful frontend user interfaces.
- Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products. Knowledge of common prompt engineering techniques current state of generative models and engineering techniques such as RAG.
- Strong technical project management skills as our Senior Software Engineers often lead projects.
- Experience building and maintaining complex software. Youll join us in writing clean maintainable software that solves hard problems. Youll write testable quality code. Youll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
- Strong communication thoughtfulness and desire to give and receive regular feedback
- Empathy for learners around the world. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. Youre motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world.
- Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness awareness of other and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives attitudes and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization.
Note: We welcome candidates with experience in any and all technologies. We dont require experience in any particular language or tool. Our commitment to on-boarding and mentorship means you wont be left in the dark as you learn new technologies.
PERKS AND BENEFITS
We may be a non-profit but we reward our talented team extremely well! We offer:
- Competitive salaries
- Ample paid time off as needed Your well-being is a priority.
- Remote-first culture - that caters to your time zone with open flexibility as needed at times
- Generous parental leave
- An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
- The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
- Opportunities to connect through affinity ally and social groups
- And we offer all those other typical benefits as well: 401(k) 4% matching & comprehensive insurance including medical dental vision and life
At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices the well-being of our employees and our Khan community. This belief is why we have built out a robust Total Rewards package that includes competitive base salaries and extensive benefits and perks to support physical mental and financial well-being.
The target salary range for this position is $137871 - $170772 USD / $186306 - $230542 CAD. The pay range for this position is a general guideline only. The salary offered will depend on internal pay equity and the candidates relevant skills experience qualifications and job market data. Additional incentives are provided as part of the complete total rewards package in addition to comprehensive medical and other benefits.
MORE ABOUT US
- Sals TED talk from 2011
- Sals TED talk from 2015
- Sals TED talk from 2023
- Our team: COMPANY VALUES
Live & breathe learners
We deeply understand and empathize with our users. We leverage user insights research and experience to build content products services and experiences that our users trust and love. Our success is defined by the success of our learners and educators.
Take a stand
As a company we have conviction in our aspirational point of view of how education will evolve. The work we do is in service to moving towards that point of view. However we also listen learn and flex in the face of new data and commit to evolving this point of view as the industry and our users evolve.
Embrace diverse perspectives
We are a diverse community. We seek out and embrace a diversity of voices perspectives and life experiences leading to stronger more inclusive teams and better outcomes. As individuals we are committed to bringing up tough topics and leaning into different points of view with curiosity. We actively listen learn and collaborate to gain a shared understanding. When a decision is made we commit to moving forward as a united team.
Work responsibly and sustainably
We understand that achieving our audacious mission is a marathon so we set realistic timelines and we focus on delivery that also links to the bigger picture. As a non-profit we are supported by the generosity of donors as well as strategic partners and understand our responsibility to our finite resources. We spend every dollar as though it were our own. We are responsible for the impact we have on the world and to each other. We ensure our team and company stay healthy and financially sustainable.
Bring out the joy
We are committed to making learning a joyful process. This informs what we build for our users and the culture we co-create with our teammates partners and donors.
Cultivate learning mindset
We believe in the power of growth for learners and for ourselves. We constantly learn and teach to improve our offerings ourselves and our organization. We learn from our mistakes and arent afraid to fail. We dont let past failures or successes stop us from taking future bold action and achieving our goals.
Deliver wow
We insist on high standards and deliver delightful effective end-to-end experiences that our users can rely on. We choose to focus on fewer things each of which aligns to our ambitious vision so we can deliver high-quality experiences that accelerate positive measurable learning with our strategic partners.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race color ancestry religion sex gender gender identity or expression national origin sexual orientation age citizenship marital status disability or Veteran status. We value diversity equity and inclusion and we encourage candidates from historically underrepresented groups to apply.
As part of this commitment Khan Academy will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process. If reasonable accommodation is needed please contact
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Contract
