Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer (12 month contract, 40 hours/week, $85/hour)

The role

You will own the technical foundation to ensure content is found, indexed, and recommended by search engines and AI systems. You will research and implement GEO/AEO/AIO strategies and conduct technical audits to improve discoverability.

What you will do

• Research and implement GEO/AEO/AIO strategies
• Conduct regular technical audits and translate findings into engineering projects
• Build and execute business cases for product enhancements
• Instrument and monitor discoverability metrics across search and AI surfaces
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing teams to prioritize improvements
• Stay current with how LLMs retrieve and cite web content

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO experience, including direct implementation
• Ability to own implementation end-to-end by reading, writing, and shipping code
• Proven ability to work independently while partnering with engineers and cross-functional teams
• Working knowledge of how AI-powered search and answer engines retrieve, rank, and cite content
• Proficiency with Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Semrush, and Ahrefs
• Experience with creating actionable insights using a variety of analytics tools including Google Analytics
• Proven cross-cultural competency skills

Nice to have

• Experience at a content-heavy or edtech platform with high page counts and structured content types
• Experience with international SEO
• Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products
• Go and React

Benefits

• benefits eligible

About the company

Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Its platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice covering Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects.