AI Engineer

Specific ResponsibilitiesProduction AI Products

• Own Ai products in production, stable, observable, with regressions caught by evals before learners find them.
  
• Take the next prototype from working demo to maintained product, with evals built in from the start rather than bolted on.
  

Agent Architecture & Context Engineering

• Design the context and tooling architecture for the agents, what is in context, when, and why.
  
• Build and maintain the service interfaces agents work through, such as the application’s  access to the learner’s artifact window.
  
• Keep long-running, multi-step agents reliable under real-world learner behaviour, with clear failure modes and recovery.
  
• Build the habit of testing what you ship — eval loops, regression checks, and fast iteration as a default way of working.
  

Skill Requirements - Essential

• Python & FastAPI: strong, production-grade experience with real users.
  
• Shipped LLM applications: at least one AI/LLM application you have shipped and can discuss in detail — what broke, how you found out, what you changed. Scale matters less than what you learned from its failures.
  
• Agent frameworks: working fluency with agent frameworks (we use LangGraph; equivalents fine) and a real point of view on context engineering.
  
• Testing discipline: the habit of testing what you build.
  
• AI-native coding with demonstrated harness engineering experience
  
• Desirable (not required): 
  
  • React and full-stack range; 
    
  • Langfuse or similar observability; knowledge graphs.
    
  • Educational/Edtech domain experience
    

Essential Traits for Success

• You build with AI, not just use it, proper harnesses, eval loops, and fast iteration.
  
• You can’t put an interesting problem down.
  
• You figure things out fast; we don’t need an exact-spec match if you have the base and the initiative.
  
• You favour non-standard evidence of skill, a portfolio of weird side projects beats a polished CV.
  

Person Specification/Attributes

• Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges.
  
• Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others.
  
• Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey.
  
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond.
  
• Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger.