Machine Learning Tutor

Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company; Utah; On-site; USD 33,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Twice-weekly payments

Remote tutoring

Flexible hours

AI Tutor Copilot

Job summary

Varsity Tutors, a Nerdy Company, is seeking skilled Machine Learning tutors for its Live Learning Platform. You can set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and tutor remotely from home. The platform matches you with students and offers AI-assisted tools to enhance sessions.

Responsibilities include teaching ML concepts, guiding students through data preprocessing and model evaluation, and adapting instruction to individual needs. Flexible hours and fast payments are highlighted.

Qualifications

• Advanced subject mastery in supervised/unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model selection, and deep learning basics.
• Ability to explain linear models, trees, SVMs, ensembles, and neural networks to students.
• Familiarity with ML curricula and adapting instruction to student needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1-on-1 online ML tutoring to students.
• Explain model training pipelines, preprocessing, evaluation metrics, and deployment concepts.
• Adapt teaching to individual learning styles and track student progress.

Skills

ML knowledge

Teaching skills

Curriculum awareness

Communication skills

Adaptability

Tools

Python

scikit-learn

Jupyter Notebook

Job description

About The Job

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Machine Learning tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.

The Varsity Tutors Live Learning Platform has thousands of students looking for online Machine Learning tutors nationally. As a tutor on the Varsity Tutors Platform, you'll have the flexibility to set your own schedule, earn competitive rates, and make a real impact on students' academic success and understanding. All from the comfort of your home.

Why Join Our Platform?

• Earn incrementally higher pay for each session with the same student, reaching up to $40/hour.


• Get paid up to twice per week, ensuring fast and reliable compensation for the tutoring sessions you conduct and invoice.


• Set your own hours and tutor as much as you'd like.


• Tutor remotely using our purpose-built Live Learning Platform. No commuting required.


• Get matched with students best-suited to your teaching style and expertise.


• Our AI-powered Tutor Copilot enhances your sessions with real-time instructional support, lesson generation, and engagement features, helping you save prep time and focus on impactful teaching.


• We handle the logistics—you just invoice for your tutoring sessions, and we take care of payments.

What We Look For In a Machine Learning Tutor

• Advanced Subject Mastery: Deep knowledge of supervised learning, unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model selection, cross-validation, regularization, ensemble methods, dimensionality reduction, clustering, and deep learning fundamentals. Ability to explain linear regression, decision trees, random forests, support vector machines, and neural network architectures while preparing students for data science roles and advanced AI coursework.


• Conceptual Teaching & Problem-Solving: Skilled at breaking down model training pipelines, hyperparameter tuning, and evaluation metric interpretation. Guides students through data preprocessing, feature selection, building and comparing classification and regression models, implementing clustering algorithms, and interpreting confusion matrices and ROC curves. Emphasizes practical model development workflow and connects machine learning to recommendation systems, fraud detection, and predictive analytics.


• Curriculum Awareness & Adaptive Instruction: Familiar with machine learning curricula and common challenges such as understanding bias-variance tradeoff, selecting appropriate algorithms for problem types, and interpreting model performance beyond accuracy. Adapts instruction using Python with scikit-learn, Jupyter notebooks, and real-world data sets to support students from introductory statistics-based ML through advanced deep learning and deployment.


• Effective Teaching Methods: Ability to identify concepts students commonly struggle with, explain material using multiple approaches, and adapt instruction to meet individual learning needs and styles.


• Strong communication skills and a friendly, engaging teaching style.


• Ability to adapt to different learning styles and student needs.

Ways To Connect With Students

• 1-on-1 Online Tutoring - Provide personalized instruction to individual students.


• Instant Tutoring - Accept on-demand tutoring requests whenever you're available.

About Varsity Tutors And 1-on-1 Online Tutoring

Our mission is to transform the way people learn by leveraging advanced technology, AI, and the latest in learning science to create personalized learning experiences. Through 1-on-1 Online Tutoring, students receive customized instruction that helps them achieve their learning goals. Our platform is designed to match students with the right tutors, fostering better outcomes and a passion for learning.

Please note: Varsity Tutors does not contract in: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia or Puerto Rico.