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.
We've made significant strides since launching our marketplace of live online classes in 2017. Finding initial success with secular homeschoolers, we then expanded to enrichment learning to meet the needs of a wider audience, growing our business 16x since 2019. Post-pandemic, we have evolved our platform to power academic learning, incorporated AI, and have begun to grow our international community. We're proud to have served over 1M passionate learners with more than $100M in annual bookings.About the Role:
You would be joining Outschool’s Marketplace team which focuses on helping parents discover great classes for their learners. You’d be responsible for designing & implementing improvements to our search & recommendation algorithms, thinking through the whole process from idea through data transformation, training, evaluation, and validation on production traffic.
We are an effective team of engineers distributed across the US with a mix of ML and full-stack product engineering skills. Our philosophy is to start small and then intentionally iterate to test our assumptions with data and learn quickly. We're iteratively building up a complex product for a highly engaged audience, getting a lot done by staying focused on the work that matters.
Our ML stack is primarily Python and SQL, producing models that plug into our product built with TypeScript, React, GraphQL/Apollo, Node, and OpenSearch.
We prioritize candidates based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with the expectation of working out of our SoMa office one day per week. That said, we are open to candidates outside the Bay Area based on experience and fit.
Core Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with a team of Engineers, Product Managers, Data Scientists, and Designers to improve class search and recommendations for parents, learners, and educators
- Develop, train, evaluate, and maintain machine learning models in Python
- Identify opportunities for improving ML modeling, training and evaluation techniques
- Work with the team to gather requirements, day-to-day activities such as daily standups, sprint planning, retros, deploying features in production and on-call
Desired Skills and Responsibilities:
- 2+ years of experience working in software engineering or data science
- Experience with Python and SQL databases
- Hands-on experience with AI software development tooling
- Proficiency in crafting, testing, and refining prompts to guide generative AI models
Other Considerations:
- Previous experience in startups
- Previous EdTech or search engineering experience
- Experience working with Opensearch, TypeScript, SageMaker, Redshift, Postgres, and DBT are a plus
Outschool recruits across the US and Canada, and sets employee salaries to reflect local compensation and cost of living. This role is available in the following US Pay Zones:
US Tiers
US Tier 1: San Francisco Bay Area and New York City
US Tier 2: All California excluding San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle Metro, Boston Metro, Chicago Metro, Denver Metro, Austin Metro, Portland Metro
US Tier 3: All other cities and states
US Pay Zones
US Tier 1: $135,000-$150,000
US Tier 2: $115,000-$127,500
US Tier 3: $101,000-112,500
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- Shared Financial Success: Competitive salaries, stock options, retirement plans.
- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance — plus fertility/family planning coverage and access to ModernHealth coaching & therapy.
- PTO & Family Benefits: Generous PTO and family leave policies.
- Hybrid & Remote-Friendly: Outschool has a distributed team across the U.S. and Canada and a new office in San Francisco. Bay Area–based employees work in the office part of the week and receive commute-related benefits. Team members outside the Bay Area remain fully remote, with support for expensable home office setup, internet, and weekly meals to stay connected no matter where you are.
- Lifelong Learners: Annual budgets for professional development and DEI learning; budgets for children to take Outschool classes.
- Community Impact: Outschool matches employee donations to eligible charities and supports Outschool.org’s nonprofit programs.
Outschool is an equal opportunity employer. We view diversity as a moral imperative and competitive advantage. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We plan and structure our interviews to directly assess skills and experience.
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Outschool San Francisco, California, USA Office
425 2nd St, San Francisco, CA, United States
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