Remote Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer

Go Fractional; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Khan Academy is seeking a Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer in Mountain View with a 12-month contract. The role blends traditional SEO with AI-enabled discovery, shaping how content is indexed and cited by engines and AI systems.

The engineer will own end-to-end implementation, work closely with cross-functional teams, and stay current on LLM retrieval/citation methods to optimize content discoverability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO experience, including direct implementation
• Ability to own implementation end-to-end — reading, writing, and shipping code (Go and React preferred)
• Proven ability to work independently while partnering with engineers, cross-functional teams, and leaders to scope, drive, and deliver SEO initiatives
• Working knowledge of how AI-powered search and answer engines retrieve, rank, and cite content (GEO/AEO/AIO fundamentals)
• Proficiency with tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Semrush, and Ahrefs
• Experience with creating actionable insights using a variety of analytics tools including Google Analytics
• Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives and behaviours to drive inclusion and belonging

Responsibilities

• Research and implement GEO/AEO/AIO strategies — optimizing KA's content, metadata, and page structure to appear in AI-generated responses across Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and other LLM-powered surfaces
• Conduct regular technical audits and translate findings into clearly scoped engineering projects with measurable impact
• Build and execute on compelling business cases for product enhancements by combining knowledge of our audiences — learners, teachers, and district administrators — with deep understanding of how search and AI discovery work
• Instrument and monitor discoverability metrics across traditional search (GSC, organic traffic) and emerging AI surfaces
• Partner cross-functionally with Marketing teams to prioritize and sequence discoverability improvements
• Stay current with how LLMs retrieve and cite web content, and bring new techniques back to the team

Skills

Technical SEO

Go programming

React programming

Independent work

AI/Discovery understand

Google Analytics

Tools

Google Search Console

Google Analytics

Semrush

Ahrefs

Job description

Khan Academy is seeking a Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer in Mountain View with a 12-month contract. The role blends traditional SEO with AI-enabled discovery, shaping how content is indexed and cited by engines and AI systems.

The engineer will own end-to-end implementation, work closely with cross-functional teams, and stay current on LLM retrieval/citation methods to optimize content discoverability.