Lead Instructor, The AI Engineer Certification (10-Week Program)
Company: AI Makerspace
Location: Location not specified (Remote)
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-07
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 ...