Fast Facts

Kiddom is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to develop search, recommendation, and insights systems to enhance educational experiences. This role involves building machine learning models that support teachers and improve student outcomes through personalized content and intelligent assistance.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include building machine learning systems for search and recommendations, developing evaluation workflows, fine-tuning models, designing discovery pipelines, and collaborating with various stakeholders.

Skills: Required skills include 2+ years of experience in machine learning, strong programming abilities in Python, and proficiency in data manipulation tools and ML libraries.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications are deep knowledge of modern deep learning frameworks, experience with evaluation pipelines, and familiarity with large language models and AI methods.

Location: The job is located in New York, USA.

Compensation: $175000 - $250000 / Annually

About Kiddom

Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.

What the job involves

You will be part of Kiddom’s AI team, building the foundation of our search, recommendation, and insights systems. Your work will directly support teachers and students by delivering timely insights, personalized content, and intelligent assistance.

What the job involves

• Support the build of machine learning systems for search, personalization, and recommendations that power Kiddom’s teacher helper and insight engine.
• Develop evaluation-first development workflows to measure how models improve teaching efficiency, lesson planning, and student learning outcomes.
• Fine-tune machine learning models with feedback signals from teachers and students to align outputs with instructional goals and classroom needs.
• Design intelligent discovery pipelines that combine semantic retrieval, curriculum alignment, and real-time personalization.
• Build agentic assistants that help teachers plan lessons, adapt instruction, and reduce repetitive tasks.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and curriculum experts to translate high-level educational goals into scalable ML-powered systems.

Who you are

• 2+ years of industry experience applying machine learning to solve real-world problems with large, complex datasets
• Proven track record designing, evaluating, and deploying ML/AI systems in production environments that drive measurable business impact, ideally in recommendation, personalization, search, or workflow optimization.
• Strong programming skills in Python and fluency in data manipulation (SQL, Pandas) and common ML toolkits (scikit-learn, XGBoost, TensorFlow/PyTorch).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to break down complex problems into measurable hypotheses and experiments.
• Excellent communication skills with a history of cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and engineering stakeholders.

Desirable

• Deep expertise in modern deep learning frameworks and advanced LLM architectures.
• Experience building evaluation pipelines for ML/AI systems, ensuring reliable measurement of impact and quality in real-world use.
• Experience implementing and fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), including prompt engineering, embeddings, and efficient inference optimization.
• Familiarity with foundation model adaptation techniques such as PEFT, LoRA, or RLHF.
• Self-motivated innovator who thrives in fast-moving environments and is excited to explore emerging AI techniques to solve meaningful problems in education.
• Passion for applying cutting-edge AI research to improve teaching workflows and personalize student learning at scale.

$175,000 - $250,000 a year

Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.

What we offer

Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:

* Competitive salary

* Meaningful equity

* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance

* One Medical membership (in participating locations)

* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.

* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)

* Paid holidays

* Paid bereavement leave

* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.

* Commuter and FSA plans

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.