Principal AI Engineer - AI Creator

Datacamp

We re building an AI Creator that turns learning into action empowering users to instantly build, experiment, and solve real-world problems, transforming knowledge into tangible impact from day one.. You will work on the core AI system that delivers real-time, adaptive learning experiences to learners. If you're excited about building the future of human learning, this role is for you.

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.
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability through monitoring, testing, guardrails, and iterative refinement of model behavior.
• Share knowledge and elevate teammates, contributing to a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous learning.

Qualifications

Technical

• 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.

Product & Pedagogy

• Strong empathy for learners and content creators; able to translate pedagogical goals into system behavior and product decisions.
• Ability to reason holistically across AI behavior, content structure, platform features, and user experience.
• Familiarity with learning science or a desire to develop expertise.

Character & Collaboration

• Drawn to difficult, ambiguous problems with no clear blueprint; persistent in exploring and refining solutions.
• Preference for elegance and simplicity in system design.
• Communicates clearly across mediums and enjoys mentoring and collaborating in small, high-ownership teams.