Lead Instructor, The AI Engineer Certification (10-Week Program)

About this role

Job Title:

Lead Instructor, The AI Engineer Certification (10-Week Program)

Location:

Remote, accepting applications globally

Our Location:

Columbus Ohio, United States

Work Type:

Contract

Pay

: Contract, $7500 USD, 50% on June 30, 2026, 50% on August 31, 2026

Time Commitment:

~10-12 hours/week for 10 weeks, potential for renewal

AI Makerspace (AIM) is on a mission to create the industry-standard certification for people who want to become
*production AI Engineers.*

We are dedicated to fostering a learning environment that encourages individual growth, community connection, and competence building with Large Language Models at the open-source edge.

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Job Purpose

As the next
Lead Instructor

for The AI Engineering Certification, you will play a critical role in the success of the course! You will serve as the primary face of the cohort, as well as a key member of the technical team, where your opinions will be highly valued across programs and cohorts.

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Responsibilities:

Live Instruction

• Teach two 2-hour sessions per week, demoing application builds corresponding to v1.0 Curriculum

Curriculum Excellence

- Work with Course Operations Lead to ensure that
run of show

and
session sheets

are updated and improved prior to each session and pre-session rehearsal
- Author and version-control a dedicated set of
slides

according to an established weekly deadline cadence that students can use as reference material to complete assignments, building on previous slide decks
- Coordinate delivery

with your Coding Co-Instructor weekly up to and including full rehearsals of the session

Make it Easy

• Respond to student DMs and tags in Discord within 24 hours (during the week) and by Monday for weekend tags
• Host 1 office hour weekly

Practical AI Education

• Model best practices for AI Engineering in the industry by drawing on your deep experience and expertise ...