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🏄 California – Remote

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AERDF

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

🔬 Science

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Science • Non-profit

AERDF is an organization that advances scientific discoveries and pursues evidence-based breakthrough innovations to improve PreK-12 education. Through an advanced inclusive research and development approach, AERDF designs, measures, and evaluates learning solutions to create significant breakthroughs in US PreK-12 education. Their programs focus on specific areas such as math improvement through executive functioning skills, transforming educational assessments with technology, and developing literacy skills for students needing tailored support. AERDF collaborates with a diverse network of educators, researchers, and organizations to drive multigenerational change, particularly for underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students. The organization also supports educational leaders through its fellowship program to cultivate ideas that can transform education systems nationwide.

📋 Description

• Define and execute AugmentED’s technical vision for AI-powered education tools • Architect and develop a scalable, secure platform for rapid prototyping and research • Grow and lead a high-performing technical team of both full-time and contract engineers and data scientists • Lead the development of user-centered AI tools that enhance teacher-AI collaboration • Drive innovation by integrating education research into practical, impactful products • Collaborate with educators, researchers, and technology partners to build AI-powered tools and capabilities that improve education outcomes • Translate complex technical concepts for diverse stakeholders • Represent AugmentED’s technology vision in public forums

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience as an AI/ML engineer who has architected and built AI products and services from the ground up • Desire to be both a hands-on individual contributor and an engineering leader • Demonstrated ability to manage and technically mentor both senior and junior engineers • Experience building across the stack (data pipelines, backend services, APIs, front-end features, mobile apps) • Deep knowledge of AI/ML technologies and experience designing and building AI-native tech stacks • Strong understanding of cloud architectures, devops/MLops, deploying scalable infrastructure, and basic privacy and security practices • Comfort building from scratch, building end-to-end proofs of concept, and moving from prototype to production • Startup experience: building the foundations of technical infrastructure and teams, thriving in ambiguity, and approaching opportunities and challenges with scrapiness and creativity

🏖️ Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the future of education • Competitive salary relative to other nonprofits and comprehensive benefits • A mission-driven, collaborative culture