Senior AI Engineer

Save My Exams is a rapidly growing EdTech business on the lookout for an ambitious Senior AI Engineer to join our Engineering team and help us apply AI to a wide set of customer and business problems.

Reaching up to 2m monthly active users and on our way to 160,000 paying members, all while being bootstrapped and profitable, we’re now on the lookout for a Senior AI Engineer to join our team.

We like to think we are the most exciting tech company in Europe you’ve never heard of and this role is a unique opportunity to develop an exciting EdTech product that is fast-growing. So, if you’re interested in rapid, profitable growth, and the chance to disrupt a $7tn+ market by improving the lives of millions of students every year, then read on.

Our Engineering team currently consists of 12 Engineers across 3 product squads. We believe that AI can be transformative across our entire product, and so the role of Senior AI Engineer would sit across all squads and report directly to our experienced Lead AI Engineer.

This is an amazing opportunity to build best-in-class solutions in a fast-moving company that isn’t dependent on endless fundraising rounds.

The Role

To love this role, here’s the type of person you are:

• You’d enjoy building and shipping solutions that directly help millions of students across the world.
• You have an experiment-first mindset, wanting to ship quickly and learn quickly.
• You’re at home with current state of the art AI models, keep your finger on the pulse of the latest developments, and are excited about the future of AI.
• You thrive in small, cross functional teams, working in close collaboration with other Engineers, Product Managers and Leadership.
• You enjoy working in a relatively small company, and the ambiguity, pace and opportunity that comes along with it.

Your Responsibilities

• Experiment quickly, applying modern AI techniques to a range of different problem areas to find where we should be investing our effort.
• Create, prioritise and manage a roadmap of initiatives that will significantly move the needle on our strategic objectives.
• Create deliverables which can be easily integrated into our product, suggest great off-the-shelf tooling that reduces maintenance burden and monitor results on an ongoing basis.
• Manage the risk of AI tools, including accuracy and alignment concerns.
• Understand our business, our students, and our content, allowing you to use your judgement to make autonomous decisions.
• Collaborate across teams to identify, prioritise, solve problems iteratively.

Requirements

• Strong professional experience developing products which solve real user problems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• User-centricity and an attitude of taking responsibility for the product and code you ship to our students.
• A test-and-learn mindset.
• An understanding – and balanced opinions – of risks when developing AI products.

Nice to-haves:

• In-depth experience of building products based around LLMs or other generative AI.
• Experience with the operational side of AI, hosting and maintaining models.
• Experience with web development, we use TypeScript, Next.js, React, Express, Postgres.
• Experience in the EdTech space or in Education in general.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience & skills and where in the world you are.
• 36 days of paid vacation, this includes the UK Bank Holidays but you can take them whenever suits you.
• Paid sabbatical – 4 weeks paid leave for every 3 years you work with SME (in addition to your annual holiday allowance).
• In addition to your salary, we also have Stock Options, so everyone can benefit from our success.
• Profit share bonus scheme.
• Private Medical & Life Insurance.
• £500 annual Learning & Development budget.
• Pension contribution.
• Flexible working hours: We don’t expect (or want) you to spend every waking hour at work. Our general working hours are 9-6pm, however we have a company-wide principle around Core Hours, which is 10-4pm and you can work at times that suit you and your team.
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave.
• Remote working: we’re UK based – work from your home or wherever you want, as long as it’s +/- 3 hours within GMT time zone.
• Amazing team: we’re a diverse, talented and friendly group who love what we do.

Save My Exams is an online education platform dedicated to helping students achieve better grades. We create high-quality and affordable resources that are used by millions of students, tutors and teachers all over the world to make studying easier and more enjoyable.

Job Type: Full Time