Staff AI Engineer

Currently we are focused on providing equitable solutions to historically under-resourced communities of learners and teachers, and guided by our Engineering Principles. On the Product team, you might work on projects such as:

Integrating state of the art learning science into our product to enable learners and teachers to quickly identify and address learning gaps on the fly.
Partnering with public school districts with a high percentage of Free and Reduced Price Lunch students to build and scale our teacher and learner tools to millions of learners who otherwise would not have discovered us.
Building tools for teachers to use Khan Academy as a strategic supplement in their classrooms.

Incremental Rewrites with GraphQL
Our Transition to React Native
Go + Services = One Goliath Project
How Engineering Principles Can Help You Scale
How to upgrade hundreds of React components without breaking production

10+ years experience building world-class product experiences for an interactive web-app. In particular, you have built and maintained scalable backend services, as well as complex, stateful frontend user interfaces.
Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products and fine-tune models. Knowledge of common prompt engineering techniques, current state of generative models, and engineering techniques such as RAG.
Deep technical project management skills, as our Staff Software Engineers often lead projects, sometimes across multiple surface areas.
Experience building and maintaining complex software. You’ll join us in writing clean, maintainable software that solves hard problems. You’ll write testable, quality code. You’ll push the team and the mission forward with your contributions.
Strong communication, thoughtfulness, and desire to give and receive regular feedback
Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere."
Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization.
Empathy for learners around the world. You love learning and are excited about helping others learn to love learning. You’re motivated to learn new things and share what you learn with the world.
Excitement about helping Khan Academy bring a free, world-class education to the world.