Senior Applied AI Engineer

About the role

Outsmart is a mission-driven, early-stage startup reimagining higher education for the age of AI by creating an entirely new collegiate experience that expands access and opportunity. Backed by $38M from top venture firms including Khosla Ventures, Forerunner, DST Global Partners, and Lightspeed, the company is led by former Duolingo executives and a founding team that also includes Emmy Award winners. With a strong culture centered around high-impact, detail-oriented team members, Outsmart is already seeing significant traction, generating 1–5 million weekly organic views on social media.

Responsibilities

• Work on both generative and discriminative use cases, focusing on content generation at scale, gamification, benchmarking and analytics, multi-modal behavior classification from mobile signals, and continuously modernizing Outsmart’s SDLC.
• Co-ownership of AI-first SDLC, MCP/ML tooling, contribute to prompting standards across the engineering team, define and enforce benchmarks for AI applications, work with Product and Engineering leadership to define AI roadmap, own end-to-end deployment and maintenance of AI systems.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in hands-on AI/ML role
• Deep and proven experience with agentic engineering
• Experience shipping AI-first applications at scale
• Experience using AI effectively to contribute cross-platform
• Demonstrable sense of Product, QA, and DevX
• Ability to work autonomously in a fast‑paced environment

Skills

• Craftsmanship and Extreme Ownership
• Open-mindedness
• Frequent, direct, honest, kind communication
• Demonstrable adoption of AI in all aspects of work
• Track record of shipping in an environment of high-performance
• User obsession

Pay

Salary Range: $190K-$250K

Benefits

• Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
• Healthcare for you and your dependents (medical, dental, and vision)
• Parental leave for any full-time employee (birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents)
• 15 PTO days per year, a winter break, and 12+ paid company holidays per year
• Remote work days
• Lunch provided in-office daily
• Working with super talented people who want to make a difference in the world