FDE Subject Matter Expert (Part-time)

About the role

TripleTen is an EdTech company that designs and runs tech career learning programs for the US and Latin American markets. We teach complete beginners—people with no prior tech background—through cohort-based programs built on our own platform and curriculum, developed in partnership with Nebius AI. Our team is fully remote and globally distributed, serving a large, active student base across both regions.

We're looking for a senior author to help create the content for our Forward Deployed Engineering curriculum. The ideal candidate has real-world experience deploying AI solutions in client environments, strong opinions about sound deployment practices, and the ability to guide experienced engineers. Your audience consists of working production engineers (6–15 years of experience, mostly backend) transitioning into forward-deployed AI work.

Format: asynchronous, estimated 20 hrs/week.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end student projects—scope, learning goals, technical infrastructure, environments, and supporting databases or datasets.
• Write clear submission guidelines and assessment criteria (rubrics) for consistent reviewer application.
• Collaborate with Learning Experience Designers to ensure projects and lessons are educationally sound, engaging, and properly calibrated for difficulty and pacing.
• Research, evaluate, and approve technical solutions and tooling to keep the curriculum current and relevant to employer needs.
• Contribute to sales and marketing enablement by training commercial teams on course content and graduate capabilities.

Requirements

• 7+ years of professional engineering experience, currently at a senior level or above (e.g., Senior/Lead/Staff Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, or technical lead on customer-facing delivery).
• Hands-on experience owning deployments end-to-end in real client or enterprise environments—from first call to production go-live and adoption.
• Practical experience with databases and infrastructure for student projects (cloud environments, containers, version control, CI where relevant).
• Ability to break complex technical work into scoped, assessable tasks at defined difficulty levels.
• Strong written communication in English—you’ll produce instructional text that must be unambiguous.
• Comfort collaborating cross-functionally with instructional design and explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience mentoring, teaching, tutoring, or reviewing others' code.

Preferred experience

• Prior EdTech or rubric/assessment design experience.

Benefits

• Fully remote work.
• A digital office with modern tools (Notion, Slack, Zoom) for smooth collaboration.
• Professional trust and autonomy—no micromanaging.
• A diverse, international, close-knit team excited to work with you.