About the company
An edtech platform for data and AI skills with 17M learners and 6,000+ company clients including 80% of the Fortune 1000
Principal AI Tutor Engineer, Dubai / London / Portugal / Belgium
An edtech platform for data and AI skills with 17M learners and 6,000+ company clients, including 80% of the Fortune 1000, is hiring a Principal AI Tutor Engineer to own the core AI tutoring agent that delivers educational material to learners. This is a Principal-level role reporting directly to the Chief AI Officer, based in Dubai.
What you'll do
- Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system: prompt architectures, agentic workflows, real-time adaptive behaviour
- Run experimentation and evaluation, developing custom metrics and frameworks to measure learning effectiveness
- Build the evaluation system and own output quality
- Work hands-on on LLM cost optimisation, cutting cost per learning hour without losing speed or quality
- Design scalable, maintainable software integrating AI capabilities with platform systems, content pipelines and UX
- Work with educators, content creators and product teams to turn pedagogical goals into technical solutions
- Prototype and productionise new model interactions, drawing on emerging research
- Expand the tutoring system into audio, languages and visuals
- Build monitoring, testing and guardrails for quality, safety and observability
- Share knowledge and help raise the bar across the team
What you'll bring
- 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems, with strong prompt engineering intuition and agentic workflow design
- Demonstrated experience building agentic AI systems
- Ability to design evaluation methods and custom metrics where off-the-shelf options fall short
- Experience with evaluation pipelines, golden datasets, prompt engineering
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and fluency in Python
- Comfort with production infrastructure, cloud environments and CI/CD
- Hands-on experience optimising LLM cost, including switching foundation models while holding or improving quality
- Strong product sense and empathy for learners and content creators
- Familiarity with learning science, or a genuine interest in developing it
Pay not advertised. Based in Dubai, London, Portugal or Belgium, with a strong preference for these locations. Remote-friendly: those within roughly an hour of an office are expected on-site 2-3 days a week, others get company-supported travel to Dubai or London a few times a quarter. Candidates outside the preferred countries would likely be engaged on a contract basis rather than permanent.
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