What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Engineer, AI Products position at Outschool?
The Company
Outschool's mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human.
We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.
Driving disruptive, positive change in education is rewarding and hard. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We look for talented people whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve outsized results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to be part of an ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning.
Outschool has been named Fast Company's most innovative EdTech company in the world, and one of the top ten best startups for women from Elpha. Outschool has also been one of BuiltIn's Best Remote Places to Work for the last two years and has appeared on Y Combinator's Top Companies list for the last three years.
The Role
We're seeking a Principal Product Engineer to lead the development of Outschool's AI-powered educational assistant - imagine interacting with an infinitely empowered school principal who can understand, guide, and enhance learning experiences. You'll create an intelligent agent that leverages our unique assets : thousands of hours of educational video, rich lesson transcripts, detailed learner preferences, and extensive marketplace interaction data. As we're pioneering new territory in AI-powered education, you'll need to think from first principles and be comfortable with 0->
1 product development.
We are looking for candidates based in the SF / Bay Area or those who are open to frequent in person time in San Francisco.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build our AI-powered educational assistant from the ground up, iterating rapidly on core features
- Create scalable systems that effectively utilize our rich educational content across video, text, and user interaction data
- Lead technical implementation of AI features while maintaining a strong user-centric focus
- Establish patterns for responsible AI development, testing, and monitoring
- Guide and mentor engineers in building AI-powered features
- Partner closely with product leadership to evolve our AI strategy and roadmap
What We're Looking For
Technical Leadership & Experience
1 product development in fast-paced environments
Product & AI Focus
Cultural Alignment
Impact You'll Have
Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. For New York and California candidates, as well as candidates based in Seattle, WA the salary range for this role would be $225,000-$275,000 USD.
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OUTSCHOOL CARES :
At Outschool, we believe that taking care of one another enables us to do our best work. To us that means :
Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact recruiting@outschool.com.
Benefits packages are included for full-time employees only.
Full-time employees must be a citizen or legal residents of the U.S. or Canada and reside in U.S. or Canada.
Once you submit your application, Outschool will process your personal data to evaluate your candidacy for employment. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, we hire employees only in the U.S. and Canada. Applicants else where should be aware that we may discard your application upon submission or we may ask if you would like us to retain it later should there be consideration (this is not typical at all). If you are selected for interviewing, your data will be shared with interviewers and personnel involved in that process. If not hired, your application will be retained for one year in case there is another suitable role. You may opt out of this at any time. Please see our Employee / Applicant Privacy Notice for more detailed information. If applicable, as you progress through the process, we will be clear about what information is being asked for and what happens with that information.
Salary : $225,000 - $275,000
