AI Prompt Engineer

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Noodle

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

💰 $50M Series C on 2021-10

Consulting • Marketing • Education

Noodle is a company that partners with universities to enhance their educational offerings through technology and strategic services. It offers solutions such as strategic consulting, brand communication, enrollment enhancement, learning design, marketing, placement, and student support to address higher education challenges. With a focus on tech-enhanced strategies, Noodle aims to empower universities by providing tools and services that boost internal capacities, engage learners, and improve student success. The company also helps institutions attract top students and connect them with world-class educational opportunities. Noodle serves as a collaborative partner in innovating higher education and improving learning outcomes.

📋 Description

• Own the design, testing, and continuous improvement of prompts and system instructions powering Noodle’s AI agents across enrollment, learning, and student support • Write, iterate, and maintain system prompts and instruction sets • Translate educational, operational, pedagogical, and business requirements into reliable agent behavior, including personas, tone, constraints, fallbacks, and multi-turn logic • Design prompt architectures for multi-step, chained, and RAG-augmented agent workflows • Collaborate with engineering to configure and deploy agents through Noodle’s AI orchestration platform • Create three-way chat experiences connecting learners, campus or Noodle support staff, and AI assistants • Build evaluation frameworks measuring accuracy, tone, hallucination rate, task completion, and alignment with learning objectives • Use Langfuse to monitor production prompt performance, identify regressions, and prioritize improvements • Design red-teaming and adversarial testing protocols • Establish prompt versioning practices and maintain reusable prompt components • Partner with Noodle teammates and university stakeholders to design, build, and test agents • Tune companion agents for enrollment and student success teams and specific university contexts • Contribute prompt engineering guidelines and best-practices documentation • Track model capability changes across OpenAI, Anthropic, and other providers, surfacing opportunities and risks • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 2+ years of experience designing and iterating on prompts for LLM-powered applications in a production environment • Deep familiarity with prompt patterns: few-shot examples, chain-of-thought, system vs. user roles, output formatting constraints, tool-use prompting, and RAG integration • Strong written communication • Experience building and running prompt evaluations: defining metrics, writing test cases, and interpreting results to make improvement decisions • Comfort working across disciplines, including discussing context windows with engineers and Bloom’s Taxonomy with faculty members • Experience with LLM observability tools (Langfuse, Weights & Biases, or similar) • Familiarity with LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) and AI integrations with LMS platforms such as Moodle, Canvas, or Instructure • Experience with voice agents or multimodal prompting • Comfort reading and writing basic JavaScript or Python for prompt automation and testing pipelines • Knowledge of OpenAI, Anthropic, or other model provider APIs • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and iterate quickly based on user feedback • Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, rapidly changing, team-based environment • Must be legally authorized to live and work in South Africa and maintain residency there throughout employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Work from the comfort of your home office! • Great compensation package • Tools you need on us! Laptop (Mac is our computer of choice) and EcoFlow inverter • 12 weeks paid Parental Leave benefits • 20 working days annual leave + 10 paid national holidays • Medical/RA benefit • Internet benefits • Full access to our employee assistance program (EAP) through Company Wellness • Annual education stipend for lifelong learning