Remote Position
[Remote] AI-Enabled Educational Web Application Developer
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is hiring an AI-Enabled Educational Web Application Developer in Comparative Media Studies/Writing and the Scheller Teacher Education Program. The role develops AI-powered tools for collaborative K–12 learning, surfaces educational insights to support reflection and curricular planning, and contributes to design-based research and related publications.
Responsibilities
- Will work to design and develop AI-powered tools supporting collaborative learning for K-12 students and teachers
- This role focuses on creating systems that surface and share educational insights from user data to support educator and learner reflection, and curricular planning including identifying opportunities for intervention
- This role’s core responsibility is developing artificial intelligence applications in support of design-based research
- This role will also contribute to writing articles/reports for scholarly and practitioner communities
Skills
- Bachelor's or equivalent work experience in computer science/software development with an emphasis on human-computer interaction, generative AI, or related areas
- Demonstrated experience designing and building technology tools, with emphasis on using LLMs to support software development, UI/UX, HCI, web frameworks utilizing Python/HTML5
- Interest in advancing excellence in education through improving classroom learning
- Strong communication skills
- Ability to work independently and contribute to an interdisciplinary team
- Applicants must have prior U.S. work authorization as we are not able to sponsor visas for this position
- Experience with AI system engineering techniques
- Experience with conversational analysis such as NLP and/or developing voice-based agents
- Experience with mobile optimization and mobile app development
- Knowledge of legal regulations regarding personally identifiable data within the US and abroad
- Willingness to mentor undergraduate student interns
- Experience as an educator in formal or informal learning environments
- Joyful/playful approach to design of learning experiences
- The ability to adapt effectively within a dynamic project
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement; remote candidates considered.
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