Mountain View, CA, USA or remote within Continental US, Hawaii, or Canada Hybrid USD 137,871 – 232,883 / year

Khan Academy is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer I, AI Evaluation (24 months fixed-term)

Responsibilities

  • Be fluent in the range of offline and online evaluation strategies, and when to apply the techniques over the lifecycle of development
  • Have intuitions about how to specify eval pipelines succinctly using declarative syntax
  • Understand the role of stratified datasets and ground truth labeling
  • Appreciate the range of eval scoring schemes from human raters to automated LLMs-as-judge

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, related field, or equivalent professional experience.
  • 5 years of Software Engineering including significant time working on the evaluation of generative AI systems or other evaluations of ML model quality
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, SQL, and at least one data pipeline framework (e.g., Airflow, Dagster, Prefect)
  • Familiarity with the architecture of large language models and their industry-standard APIs

Nice to Have

  • Experience with labeling platforms (e.g., Label Studio, Scale AI, Toloka) and human-in-the-loop concerns such as rubric development and inter-rater agreement
  • Exposure to MLOps practices such as model registry, feature store, or continuous evaluation
  • Background in education technology or other human-centered AI applications

Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Ample paid time off as needed
  • 8 pre-scheduled Wellness Days in 2026
  • Remote-first culture
  • Generous parental leave
  • An exceptional team that trusts you and gives you the freedom to do your best
  • The chance to put your talents towards a deeply meaningful mission and the opportunity to work on high-impact products that are already defining the future of education
  • Opportunities to connect through affinity, ally, and social groups
  • 401(k) + 4% matching & comprehensive insurance, including medical, dental, vision, and life

Work Arrangement

Hybrid

Additional Information

  • As part of our hiring process, we use a secure identity verification service through CLEAR® (in partnership with Greenhouse) to confirm that each applicant is who they claim to be. CLEAR® provides a safe, consistent way to confirm identity, helping protect both applicants and the company from impersonation or fraud.
  • 24 months fixed-term
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Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission to deliver a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. Our proven learning platform offers free, high-quality supplemental learning content and practice that cover Pre-K - 12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science.
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Posted 5 months ago