Principal AI Engineer — Adaptive Tutoring Platform

DataCamp; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Annual learning budget

IT equipment budget

Job summary

DataCamp is building an AI tutoring system that adapts in real time to help learners. You will work on core AI components, designing agentic workflows and evaluation metrics to measure learning effectiveness.

The role emphasizes collaboration with educators, content creators, and product teams, ensuring scalable, safe, and observable model behavior while shaping the future of data-driven education.

Qualifications

• 1+ years building complex LLM-based systems with prompt engineering
• Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods and custom metrics
• Strong software engineering, Python, production infrastructure, CI/CD
• Actively follows AI research and applies ideas to real problems

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the core AI tutoring system
• Run rigorous experimentation and evaluation
• Design scalable software integrating AI with platform systems
• Collaborate cross-functionally with educators, content creators, and product teams
• Prototype and productionize novel model interactions
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability of models
• Share knowledge and elevate teammates

Skills

LLM systems

Prompt engineering

Evaluation methods

Python

Cloud & CI/CD

Research awareness

Job description

DataCamp is building an AI tutoring system that adapts in real time to help learners. You will work on core AI components, designing agentic workflows and evaluation metrics to measure learning effectiveness.

The role emphasizes collaboration with educators, content creators, and product teams, ensuring scalable, safe, and observable model behavior while shaping the future of data-driven education.