9h ago

Senior Staff Applied AI Engineer

San Francisco, CA

$253.1k-$332.2k / year

full-timeleadEdTech

🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll lead the technical roadmap for personalization, ranking, and GenAI/LLM systems at a leading edtech platform serving tens of millions of learners. You'll architect end-to-end ML systems and mentor senior engineers to multiply impact across the org.

🎯 What You'll Do

  • Own technical roadmap for applied AI across personalization, ranking, search, and GenAI/LLM systems
  • Design end-to-end ML systems including candidate sourcing, embedding platforms, and multi-stage ranking
  • Lead LLM-based features: RAG pipelines, fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and inference strategies
  • Institutionalize evaluation with offline and online metrics for ranking and generative systems

📋 Requirements

  • 10+ years in applied ML/AI with staff-level impact leading cross-functional efforts end-to-end
  • Proven record shipping large-scale ranking/personalization or search systems improving online metrics
  • Hands-on with LLM/GenAI systems including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, evaluation, and productionization
  • Deep fluency in Python/PyTorch, distributed training/inference, and modern MLOps

✨ Nice to Have

  • EdTech or consumer mobile experience; conversational tutoring or learning science-informed modeling
  • Publications or open-source contributions in RecSys/LLMs (e.g., RecSys, KDD, NeurIPS, ICLR, ACL)
  • Experience building on a modern MLOps stack including feature management, orchestration, streaming

🎁 Benefits & Perks

  • 🏖️ 20 vacation days
  • 🏥 Competitive health, dental, and vision insurance (100% employee, 75% dependent)
  • 🏦 Employer-sponsored 401k with company match
  • 📚 Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional growth
  • 👶 Paid Family Leave, FSA, HSA, Commuter benefits, and Wellness benefits
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