Python AI Engineer

About this role

We are DeweyLearn, Inc., an EdTech startup on a mission to revolutionize the education landscape. We’re building something extraordinary and are seeking exceptional engineers to join us on this journey. This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of education technology from the ground up.

Tasks

- Build and maintain backend services and APIs in Python

- Design and ship AI features using LLMs and modern ML techniques

- Implement retrieval workflows (RAG, embeddings, vector search)

- Take AI systems from prototype to production and iterate based on real usage

- Work closely with other engineers and stakeholders to make good technical trade-offs

- Help keep our systems clean, reliable, and easy to extend

Requirements

General:

- You’re a curious technologist at heart. You like understanding how things work, and you enjoy exploring new tools, approaches, and ideas

- You have strong software engineering fundamentals and can build reliable systems that others can understand, maintain, and extend

- You are a good communicator and can ask the right questions, explain trade-offs in a straightforward way, and collaborate with stakeholders

- You enjoy collaborating with other team members

- You have a proven track record as a Python developer, with at least 3 years of professional software engineering experience

- You have experience working with ML/AI systems in a production environment.

- You have native/fluent proficiency in English

- Experience in early-stage startups is a plus

Technical:

- Good command of the Python language

- Production API development experience

- Understanding of modern web frameworks

- Good understanding of “engineering basics” (version control, CI/CD, environments, debugging)

- Experience implementing and evaluating ML/AI solutions

- Experience building AI features using LLMs

- Familiarity with retrieval workflows (RAG) and embedding-based ...