ML Engineer

About The Company Outschool’s mission is to inspire kids to love learning. In our fast-changing world, the traditional educational system struggles to meet the diverse and evolving needs of young learners. Outschool reimagines this system, offering flexible and engaging learning experiences as a supplement and alternative to traditional education. By connecting learners with a global community of teachers and peers through our online platform, we make learning personal, dynamic, and deeply human. Since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017, Outschool has made significant strides. Initially successful with secular homeschoolers, we expanded into enrichment learning to serve a broader audience, growing our business 16 times since 2019. Post-pandemic, we evolved our platform to support academic learning, incorporated artificial intelligence, and began expanding our international community. We are proud to have served over 1 million passionate learners with more than $100 million in annual bookings. Driving disruptive, positive change in education is both rewarding and challenging. Outschool team members are encouraged to challenge themselves, take risks, and grow in their careers. We seek talented individuals whose sense of urgency, innate curiosity, and determination to drive impact will help Outschool achieve extraordinary results in pursuit of our mission. We invite you to join our ambitious team dedicated to ensuring every learner can navigate the future with curiosity, resilience, and a love of learning. About The Role We are a fully remote team of engineers distributed across the US and Canada. Our approach emphasizes starting small and iteratively building upon our work to test assumptions and learn quickly. We are developing a complex, engaging product for a highly involved audience, focusing on impactful work that advances our mission. We believe that the future of education is hybrid, combining online and in-person learning. We are seeking engineers passionate about inspiring children to learn by creating tools that provide access to innovative learning experiences. Hands-on experience is highly valued in our hiring process. If this role excites you and aligns with your interests, we encourage you to apply. Core Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team of Engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Designers to enhance class search and recommendation systems for parents, learners, and educators.
• Develop, train, evaluate, and maintain machine learning models using Python to improve platform functionalities.
• Identify opportunities for optimizing ML modeling, training, and evaluation techniques to enhance system performance.
• Participate in requirements gathering, daily standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and deploying new features in production environments.
• Provide on-call support to ensure system reliability and address issues promptly.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2+ years of experience working as an engineer or data scientist.
• Proficiency with databases such as PostgreSQL and Redshift.
• Willingness to mentor colleagues and share expertise.
• Experience working in startup environments is preferred.
• Prior experience in EdTech or search engineering is advantageous.
• Familiarity with Opensearch, TypeScript, SageMaker, Redshift, Postgres, and DBT is a plus.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and stock options.
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.
• Fertility and family planning coverage, along with access to ModernHealth coaching and therapy services.
• Generous PTO and family leave policies.
• Hybrid and remote-friendly work environment, with support for home office setup, internet, and weekly team meals.
• Annual budgets for professional development and diversity, equity, and inclusion learning initiatives.
• Support for children’s education through class budgets.
• Community impact programs, including matching employee donations to charities and supporting Outschool.org’s nonprofit initiatives.

Equal Opportunity Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity as a moral imperative and a source of competitive advantage. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability. Our hiring process is designed to assess skills and experience fairly and equitably.