Principal AI Engineer - AI Tutor

DataCamp
Dubai
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 1+ yearsSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Lead the creation of an AI tutoring system by designing core AI components, conducting rigorous evaluations, and delivering scalable software that integrates AI with content, platform, and user experience. Collaborate with educators and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into practical AI solutions, while ensuring safety, observability, and continual learning and improvement.

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DataCamp
DataCamp
8 months ago

Principal AI Engineer - AI Tutor

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Job Summary

Lead the creation of an AI tutoring system by designing core AI components, conducting rigorous evaluations, and delivering scalable software that integrates AI with content, platform, and user experience. Collaborate with educators and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into practical AI solutions, while ensuring safety, observability, and continual learning and improvement.
Location: Dubai
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system, including prompt architectures, agentic workflows, and real-time adaptive behaviors.
  • •Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation, developing custom metrics and frameworks to measure learning effectiveness and improve model reliability.
  • •Design and implement scalable, maintainable software, integrating AI capabilities with platform systems, content pipelines, and user experience components.
  • •Collaborate cross-functionally with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.
  • •Prototype and productionize novel model interactions, leveraging emerging research and capabilities to advance the tutor’s intelligence.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Learning BudgetEquipment BudgetGlobal Retreats

Key Requirements

  • •1+ years building complex LLM-based systems, with strong prompt engineering intuition and experience designing agentic workflows.
  • •Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods, including custom metrics and frameworks when off-the-shelf options fall short.
  • •Strong software engineering fundamentals, architectural thinking, and fluency in Python; comfortable working with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD.
  • •Actively follows AI research and emerging capabilities, applying new ideas creatively to real problems.
  • •Familiarity with learning science or a desire to develop expertise.
Experience:1+ years
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonLLMCloudCI/CD

Company Brief

DataCamp
Provides an online learning platform offering interactive courses in data science, analytics, and programming with hands-on exercises, projects, and skill tracks for individuals and enterprises to build practical data skills.
Industry: EdTech
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2013
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