AI Product Engineer
Full-stack AI engineer who designs, builds, and ships LLM-powered features (prompts, agents, RAG, evaluation) for Audrey, MarcoPolo Learning's AI teaching companion for early-childhood educators, working directly with the CEO. Uses React/TypeScript, Node.js or Python, and AWS; remote within India (Bengaluru preferred), contract-to-hire.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Not listed
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5–8 years of full-stack software engineering: React/TypeScript front end; Node.js or Python back end; AWS
- Personally built and shipped at least one production LLM application used by real users
- Hands-on experience with prompt and agent design, RAG (embeddings, vector search, re-ranking), and evaluating LLM output quality
- AI-native way of working: uses AI tools every day
- Leadership capability: owned a product area or driven product decisions
- Genuine product mindset and curiosity about users (teachers)
- Self-directed, moves work forward with minimal oversight
- Clear written and spoken English; comfortable working across UK and US time zones
- Right to work in India (visa sponsorship not available)
Nice to have
- Ed-tech or early-childhood experience
- FERPA/COPPA familiarity
- Early-stage startup experience
Full description
AI Product Engineer (Full-Stack)
Location: Remote (India-based), Bengaluru preferred, with daily overlap with our UK and US teams
Engagement Type: Contract-to-hire, 3 months then ongoing
Reports to: CEO
About MarcoPolo Learning
MarcoPolo Learning is a leading provider of innovative content, technology, and instructional support for early childhood education. Since 2013, we’ve impacted thousands of classrooms and hundreds of thousands of families across North America. Our Emmy-nominated MarcoPolo World School app and The Polos TV series bring STEM and global discovery to life for young learners.
Backed by top-tier investors, we’re on a mission to transform early learning at scale. At the center of that mission is Audrey, our AI Teaching Companion & Coach for early-learning educators.
Role Overview
We’re looking for an AI Product Engineer who builds with AI by default and cares deeply about the product. You’ll partner closely with our CEO to shape and move Audrey forward. You’ll turn ideas into clear decisions, then build them end to end alongside a small, collaborative engineering team.
This role suits someone who leads through clarity and trust, brings people with them, and helps the whole team do its best work.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the CEO on product direction: shape priorities, test assumptions, and turn ideas into clear, buildable plans.
- Design and build AI features end to end, including prompts and agents, retrieval, and the experience around them.
- Put evaluation and testing in place so AI quality is measurable and keeps improving.
- Ship full-stack features across front end, back end and cloud deployment.
- Work hand in hand with fellow engineers: share context, pair on problems, and help everyone get more from AI tools.
- Communicate progress, risks and trade-offs early and clearly.
- Build with privacy and safety in mind, including FERPA/COPPA alignment.
What Success Looks Like in the First 90 Days
- First 30 days: learn the product, the teachers who use it and the team; get hands-on and ship a first improvement.
- By 60 days: own a meaningful part of the AI experience and deliver improvements on agreed timelines.
- By 90 days: help shape the next phase of the product roadmap with the CEO.
What We’re Looking For
- 5–8 years of full-stack software engineering: React/TypeScript front end; Node.js or Python back end; AWS.