MandarinEnglish Bilingual Tech Mentor (WinterSpring 2026)
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Bilingual Tech Mentor (Mandarin/English speaking) remote part-time evening hours $40 per hour
Do you remember that person who made you realize your true potential The one who championed you while you traversed the path towards academic or professional success.
Your mentor. Maybe you had one or even several if you were very lucky!
Do you want to be that mentor to younger students Do you have computer science experience and expertise Are you interested in learning and teaching about AI Gen AI LLMs
Yes yes and yes Great! We have an amazing opportunity for you!
SureStart is partnering with the XCL World Academy to host a cutting-edge artificial intelligence-focused curriculum designed for Grade 6 students.
The program runs from January through June 2026 and will teach skills related to AI Gen AI app development innovation and entrepreneurship through a virtual program led by mentors.
We would love to have YOU as a mentor to help these Grade 6 students learn AI and app development skills while you also get the chance to be trained in MITs AppInventor platform --- all while getting paid for your efforts.
Program Specifics:
As a Program Mentor you will coach a group of 6 students over the course of the 5 month program providing guidance and advice.
Location: Virtual (program sessions will be conducted over Zoom or similar platform)
Duration: January 6 2026 through June 8 2026; mentor training will take place in November 2025 (Exact datesTBD). There will be 16 working weeks in this period and 7 weeks of break. Breaks are Feb 9 - 27 2026; March 23 - April 3 2026 and May 25 - 29 2026.
As a mentor your responsibilities will be to:
- Train support and encourage a small group of six 6th grade students as they develop knowledge of AI/Gen AI App development AI ethics and AI-driven Innovation and Entrepreneurship using the provided curriculum.
- Specifically note your mentor schedule provided below.
The curricula for the program will be provided and you will be coached and trained in the curriculum and given mentorship training.
Weekly Schedule:
- 1 hour attendance to the lead instructors virtual teaching session on on Monday evening (8:00-9:00pm ET / 5:00-6:00pm PT)
- 40-45 minute prep call on Monday evening with mentoring team lead
- 1 hour virtual teaching session on Tuesday evening (8:00-9:00pm ET Jan 6th - March 1st 7:00 - 8:00 PM ET March 2nd-June 8th) with their student team
- 15 minutes post-student-session virtual debrief (may be 1 hour in the first week)
- 2 hours session prep time (scheduled at your discretion)
Requirements for applicants
- Must speak fluent Mandarin English to support bilingual students
- Passionate about teaching and mentoring younger students; especially invested in mentoring students from backgrounds under-represented in science and technology;
- Currently enrolled or recent graduates from Computer Science Computer Engineering or related fields;
- Have current/recent experience with middle school STEM teaching;
- Excellent communication time-management and teamwork skills;
- Comfortable speaking to small groups in a virtual setting;
- Energetic and enthusiastic
- Able to commit to 5 hours per week from January 6 2026 through June 8 2026
- Willing and able to commit to 3 hours per day for 6 days in November for training in the SureStart AI curriculum
Preferred but not required
- Experience with front-end design app design and/or UI/UX development;
- Experience with AppInventor Scratch or other block-based programming
- Familiarity with common GenAI tools like ChatGPT Stable Diffusion etc.
Benefits
- You will deepen your technical knowledge (look up protege effect)
- Work on exciting challenging and rewarding work critical to the future of ethical AI
- Build up your CV with fantastic leadership and team management experience
- Have the opportunity to attend technical talks and professional skills seminars
- Valuable networking opportunities with industry leaders in tech and academia
- Be an integral part of a movement to build future AI leaders
If youre excited about being a mentor but are hesitating about the requirements go ahead and apply anyway - wed love to hear from you!
Diverse minds building diverse technology is SureStarts mission. We would love to see a wide variety of candidates presenting their unique perspectives experiences and skills. We are an equal opportunity employer and highly value diversity. SureStart does not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status or disability status.
Keywords for this job: AI GenAI app development mobile app development frontend design HCI human computer interaction UI design UX design training mentorship MOOC online training data science jobs machine learning jobs machine vision affective computing emotion AI Natural Language Processing NLP internships interns co-ops speech recognition tts speech synthesis image processing HCI human computer interaction Python Tensorflow Keras PyTorch data scientist.
Required Experience:
Intern
Key Skills
- Developmental Disabilities Experience
- Behavior Management
- Computer Skills
- Conflict Management
- Autism Experience
- Case Management
- Teaching
- Curriculum Development
- Child Protective Services
- Experience with Children
- Mentoring
- Word Processing
About Company
To solve the world’s most pressing technological challenges, we need a diverse representation of skilled minds. At SureStart, that’s exactly what we’re building.
