Senior AI Engineer – Platform Team (Full Stack)

Join Coursedog’s Platform team to architect and deliver the AI infrastructure powering Intelligent Academic Operations. You will design the orchestration pipelines, developer tooling, and AI integration frameworks that enable product pods across Scheduling, Curriculum, Catalog, and beyond to rapidly build and ship AI-powered capabilities.

This is a full-stack, enablement-focused role — your work won’t just ship features directly, it will multiply the velocity and impact of every engineering team.

Key Responsibilities

• AI Platform Development – Build and maintain reusable AI services, APIs, and orchestration pipelines (e.g., LangSmith, Airflow, MLFlow) to support cross-team AI initiatives.
• Developer Enablement – Provide tooling, SDKs, and documentation so product teams can easily integrate AI features into their modules without deep ML expertise.
• Orchestration & Observability – Implement robust workflows for data ingestion, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring at scale.
• Full-Stack Engineering – Build backend APIs in Node.js and deliver reference frontends in Vue to demonstrate and validate platform capabilities.
• Collaboration & Mentorship – Partner with product pod engineers to guide AI adoption best practices, debug integration issues, and promote platform consistency.
• Architecture Leadership – Influence system design for scalability, performance, and maintainability across multiple product lines.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven track record in AI/ML systems development and deployment at scale.
• Hands-on experience with orchestration and lifecycle tools (LangSmith, Airflow, MLFlow, Kubeflow, or similar).
• Strong backend expertise in Node.js and REST API design, JavaScript and TypeScript
• Experience building modern SPAs with Vue 3.
• Solid understanding of relational and document databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Ability to design frameworks and tooling that abstract complexity and empower other teams

Nice-to-Haves

• Familiarity with higher education domain workflows (e.g., academic scheduling, curriculum management).
• Experience with observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) for AI systems.
• Contributions to internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure projects.

Working at Coursedog

Healthcare, Dental & Vision
We follow a fixed contribution model to ensure equity and transparency. Each employee receives the same annual dollar amount to allocate toward their medical, dental, and vision coverage. This empowers you to select the plan that best meets your needs — whether it’s a base-level plan or a more comprehensive option.

Depending on the selected coverage level, the company covers:

• Employee-only coverage: 99% to 55% of monthly premiums
• Employee + dependents: 77% to 43% of monthly premiums

We proudly partner with Aetna and Guardian, and offer access to best-in-class wellness perks including:

• Spring Health (mental health support)
• XP Health (vision benefits)
• Carrot Fertility (family planning)
• One Medical (primary care)

We also support pre-tax savings through Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA).

Retirement Planning
To support long-term financial health, we offer a 401(k) plan from day one of employment.
Beginning January 1, 2026, we’ll provide a 4% employer match on your annual salary (subject to federal limits) for employees contributing to a tax-advantaged retirement account.

Paid Time Off
We trust our employees to manage their time responsibly. That’s why we offer an unlimited Paid Time Off policy — because flexibility and balance are critical for sustained excellence and personal well-being.

Remote-First Since Inception
We were built for distributed work. Our culture emphasizes flexibility over rigidity, outcomes over hours, and transparency over gatekeeping. We are committed to being a remote-first organization indefinitely, empowering you to work where and how you thrive best.

Equity
As a valued contributor to our collective success, you’ll participate in the upside. All employees are granted equity in the company, with vesting aligned to your role and tenure. Equity grants are reviewed and adjusted with promotions to reflect your evolving impact.

Paid Parental Leave
We proudly support working parents with industry-leading benefits.

• Primary caregivers are eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave
• Secondary caregivers receive 6 weeks of paid leave

This time is fully paid and available to all eligible employees regardless of gender or family structure.

About Coursedog

Our mission is to break down barriers to opportunity for students.

Coursedog provides higher ed with modern technology solutions – empowering institutions, students, and communities across the globe.

Coursedog's founding story is rooted in the desire to help students achieve their highest goals. In 2018, Coursedog's co-founders and then college students, Justin Wenig and Nick Diao, were frustrated by how difficult it was to get into the classes they needed to graduate on time. After speaking with higher education provosts and registrars to better understand how academic scheduling works, they came away with a vision that permeates the company today.

Coursedog has raised $113M total capital as a remote-first, hyper-growth startup currently backed by JMI Equity, and with past investments from YC and First Round Capital. We were recently ranked in Forbes top 500 US startup employers and our employee engagement scores rank in the top 5% of tech companies.