Cognitive AI Curriculum Designer

About the role

The AI Psychologist is a profession invented by Aigo’s chief scientist. The team is motivated by fostering human flourishing, solving challenging problems, and building transformative technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and build curricula tailored to the AI’s specific cognitive needs at each stage of development, from early language acquisition through abstract reasoning and theory of mind.
• Figure out how the system could learn something cognitively rather than by hardcoded rule, and identify the prerequisites it needs to get there.
• Create question/answer sets, comprehension exercises, and structured conversations that challenge and expand the system’s current capabilities.
• Identify gaps and failure modes, then work with engineers to address them in rapid iteration cycles.
• Conduct independent research and brainstorming to develop new approaches to curriculum design and capability evaluation.
• Evaluate natural language understanding across a wide range of domains, reasoning types, and cognitive tasks.
• Create knowledge ontologies to bolster the system’s fundamental understanding.

Requirements

• A background in education, cognitive science, linguistics, or a related field, with an emphasis on education.
• A deep fascination with the nature of intelligence, language, and how minds (human or artificial) actually work.
• A strong command of English and exceptional analytical and writing skills.
• The ability to think rigorously and independently, designing tests and curricula from first principles rather than templates.
• Comfortable working closely with engineers and iterating quickly in a fast-moving development environment.
• Comfortable in a technical environment, spending real time in the system's logs and working out why it did what it did.
• Multilingual ability is a plus.

What’s Not Required

Prior AI/ML or software engineering experience. You'll work closely with engineers, but you own the cognitive side: the spec, the tests, the evaluation. Not the code.