Principal AI Engineer - AI Tutor

DataCamp; Dubai; Remote; AED 331,000 - 551,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Annual learning budget

Global team retreats

IT home equipment budget

Job summary

DataCamp is building an AI tutoring system designed to emulate and surpass the best human tutors. You will work on the core AI system delivering real-time, adaptive learning experiences to learners. This role can be done remotely from the United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal OR UAE.

You will collaborate with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions, ensuring safety, observability, and continual improvement.

Qualifications

• 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems.
• Strong Python and software engineering fundamentals.
• Experience with production cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system, including prompt architectures and real-time adaptive behaviors.
• Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation with custom metrics.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable software integrating AI with platform systems.
• Collaborate with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.
• Prototype and productionize novel model interactions leveraging emerging research.
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability through monitoring and guardrails.
• Share knowledge and elevate teammates in a culture of clarity and learning.

Skills

LLM-based systems

Prompt engineering

Agentic workflows

Python

CI/CD

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

About DataCamp

DataCamp's mission is to empower everyone with the data and AI skills essential for 21st-century success. By providing practical, engaging learning experiences, DataCamp equips learners and organizations of all sizes to harness the power of data and AI. As a trusted partner to over 17 million learners and 6,000+ companies, including 80% of the Fortune 1000, DataCamp is leading the charge in addressing the critical data and AI skills shortage.

About the role

Research has consistently shown that one-on-one tutoring dramatically outperforms traditional classroom instruction - a finding known as Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem. Despite decades of awareness, no solution has successfully delivered personalized tutoring at scale. Until now.

We are building an AI tutoring system designed to emulate and eventually surpass the best human tutors. You will work on the core AI system that delivers real-time, adaptive learning experiences to learners. If you're excited about building the future of human learning, this role is for you. This role can be done remotely from anyone of the following; United States, United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal OR UAE.

About you

At DataCamp, we seek individuals who embody our core values of data-driven decision-making, action, transparency, ownership, and customer focus. You thrive in a fast-paced, high-performing environment and are driven by a passion for making a meaningful impact. You're adaptable, embracing change and ambiguity with enthusiasm. Your initiative and entrepreneurial spirit push you beyond just meeting targets—you aim to understand the "why" behind our goals and take ownership to drive the business forward. You're a collaborative team player who values transparency and always seeks to improve and innovate.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system, including prompt architectures, agentic workflows, and real-time adaptive behaviors.
• Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation, developing custom metrics and frameworks to measure learning effectiveness and improve model reliability.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable software, integrating AI capabilities with platform systems, content pipelines, and user experience components.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.
• Prototype and productionize novel model interactions, leveraging emerging research and capabilities to advance the tutor's intelligence.
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability through monitoring, testing, guardrails, and iterative refinement of model behavior.
• Share knowledge and elevate teammates, contributing to a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous learning.

Qualifications

Technical

• 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems, with strong prompt engineering intuition and experience designing agentic workflows.
• Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods, including custom metrics and frameworks when off-the-shelf options fall short.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, architectural thinking, and fluency in Python; comfortable working with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD.
• Actively follows AI research and emerging capabilities, applying new ideas creatively to real problems.

Product & Pedagogy

• Strong empathy for learners and content creators; able to translate pedagogical goals into system behavior and product decisions.
• Ability to reason holistically across AI behavior, content structure, platform features, and user experience.
• Familiarity with learning science or a desire to develop expertise.

Character & Collaboration

• Drawn to difficult, ambiguous problems with no clear blueprint; persistent in exploring and refining solutions.
• Preference for elegance and simplicity in system design.
• Communicates clearly across mediums and enjoys mentoring and collaborating in small, high-ownership teams.

Why Datacamp?

Joining DataCamp means becoming part of a dynamic, creative, and international start-up. Here are just a few of the reasons why you'll love being on our team:

• Exciting challenges: Face new technical challenges daily, keeping your work engaging and rewarding.
• Competitive compensation: We offer a competitive salary with attractive benefits.
• Flexibility: Benefit from flexible working hours because the future is flexible!
• Continuous learning: Access a yearly learning budget for conferences & training to support your professional growth.
• Global retreats: Participate in international company retreats, fostering a global team spirit.
• Equipment: Yearly refreshment of your IT Equipment budget for your home working setup.
• Amazing team: Collaborate with a truly exceptional team - seriously, we're awesome!