AI/ML Engineer - School
About The Position
The AI/ML Engineer – School (K-12) delivers AI solutions tailored to K-12 educators, students, and administrators. You will build production AI features that save teachers time on lesson planning and grading, provide personalized support to students, and do so under the strictest compliance and safety standards of any education segment. This role is unique because K-12 demands more than technical skill — it demands sensitivity to child safety, FERPA compliance, COPPA considerations, and the realities of how teachers actually work. The ideal candidate has shipped K-12 or consumer-safe AI features before and understands that in this domain, 'safe by default' is table stakes.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- 4+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years focused on AI/ML
- Strong proficiency in Python with experience building production ML or LLM systems
- Hands-on experience with modern AI APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock)
- Strong understanding of FERPA, COPPA, and education data privacy requirements
- Experience building AI systems with safety, content filtering, and guardrails
- Solid software engineering fundamentals including testing, CI/CD, and system design
- Excellent judgment on child safety and age-appropriate design decisions
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience building AI features for K-12 or consumer-safe environments
- Background in EdTech with direct teacher or classroom exposure
- Familiarity with state-level student data privacy regulations (SOPIPA, New York Ed Law 2-d)
- Experience with content moderation, red-teaming, or AI safety evaluation
- Familiarity with agentic AI frameworks (LangChain, LlamaIndex)
- Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG, Section 508, DOJ accessibility)
Responsibilities
- K-12 AI Feature Development
- Build AI tools for teacher lesson planning, worksheet creation, and content adaptation
- Develop AI-powered grading, feedback, and formative assessment features
- Create age-appropriate student support, tutoring, and help experiences
- Build administrator analytics and early-warning systems for student intervention
- Integrate AI capabilities into the Cengage School product ecosystem
- Compliance & Child Safety
- Ensure FERPA, COPPA, and state-level student data privacy compliance in every feature
- Implement child safety guardrails, content filtering, and age-appropriate AI behavior
- Partner with Governance on policy enforcement for minors and classroom contexts
- Handle parent, district, and state-level data privacy and audit requirements
- Build transparency and explainability into AI features used with minors
- Optimization & Impact
- Optimize features based on teacher usage data and feedback
- Measure teacher adoption rates, time saved per educator, and classroom impact
- Partner with curriculum and learning science teams on efficacy measurement
- Iterate rapidly while maintaining compliance posture at every release
- Maintain documentation and engineering runbooks for all deployed features
Benefits
- Opportunity to shape AI at scale across a global learning company
- Direct impact on business outcomes, product, and workforce productivity
- Access to cutting-edge AI tools, platforms, and technologies
- Collaborative team environment focused on innovation and continuous improvement
- Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees
- Eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
