AI/ML Engineer

The role

An AI/ML Engineer will join the product engineering and applied research team to build AI systems for children's education. You will own AI features end-to-end, from identifying product opportunities to shipping production improvements.

What you will do

• Help define the impact of AI on children's education.
• Own AI systems and features end-to-end.
• Build and operate research and evaluation systems.
• Ship production improvements used by children worldwide.
• Collaborate with learning experts and product engineers to build infrastructure.
• Design and improve the agent harness that powers the tutoring experience.
• Develop learner profiling and adaptation systems.
• Develop feedback loops and data flywheels to improve product quality.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building AI products in an engineering or research role.
• Experience in environments that require a high level of ownership.
• Clean Python code writing skills.
• Ability to debug complex systems.
• Experience building and operating evaluation or measurement systems.
• Ability to read recent ML papers and implement parts of the stack.
• Proficiency in applied mathematics and linear algebra.
• Working practice of leveraging AI in engineering workflows.

Nice to have

• Public projects that demonstrate technical creativity
• Strong product intuition
• Depth in low-latency inference at scale
• Experience with model training
• Familiarity with speech systems

About the company

Ello is a public benefit corporation with a mission to maximize the potential of all children. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Nairobi, Kenya.