Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DeweyLearn, Inc. is an EdTech startup on a mission to revolutionize the education landscape. They are seeking a Python AI Engineer to build and maintain backend services, design AI features, and implement workflows to enhance their education technology solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Python
- Design and ship AI features using LLMs and modern ML techniques
- Implement retrieval workflows (RAG, embeddings, vector search)
- Take AI systems from prototype to production and iterate based on real usage
- Work closely with other engineers and stakeholders to make good technical trade-offs
- Help keep our systems clean, reliable, and easy to extend
Skills
- You're a curious technologist at heart. You like understanding how things work, and you enjoy exploring new tools, approaches, and ideas
- You have strong software engineering fundamentals and can build reliable systems that others can understand, maintain, and extend
- You are a good communicator and can ask the right questions, explain trade-offs in a straightforward way, and collaborate with stakeholders
- You enjoy collaborating with other team members
- You have a proven track record as a Python developer, with at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience
- You have experience working with ML/AI systems in a production environment
- You have native/fluent proficiency in English
- Good command of the Python language
- Production API development experience
- Understanding of modern web frameworks
- Good understanding of 'engineering basics' (version control, CI/CD, environments, debugging)
- Experience implementing and evaluating ML/AI solutions
- Experience building AI features using LLMs
- Familiarity with retrieval workflows (RAG) and embedding-based search
- Experience in early-stage startups is a plus
- Experience with PostgreSQL is a plus
- Experience with Natural Language Processing is a plus
- Familiarity with at least one front-end framework is a plus
Benefits
- Flexible remote work arrangement (Europe and the Americas only)
- Collaborative, innovation-focused environment
- Opportunity to shape the future of education
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