Job Overview
Location
Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
HR & Recruiting
Date Posted
May 6, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Learning Engineer at Playlab Inc. is a flexible, remote-first role focused on building, prototyping, and designing AI tools on the Playlab platform alongside educators and partner organizations to empower them as creators of AI in education.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include co-designing AI tools with educators through hands-on coaching and design sprints, building exemplar AI apps for partner schools and districts, running virtual and in-person build sessions, hosting office hours for educator support, supporting student-facing AI projects, and bringing field insights back to inform product and partnership strategy.
- • Playlab is a tech non-profit dedicated to helping educators and students become critical consumers and creators of AI through open-source, community-driven tools and professional development, with over 40,000 educators having published apps on the platform and backing from major foundations including Gates, Google, CZI, and Schwab.
- • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in AI application design for education, strengthen your coaching and facilitation skills with diverse educator communities, gain experience in rapid prototyping and design thinking in real-world learning contexts, and contribute to shaping equitable, innovative AI use in K-12 settings while working across product, engineering, and partnerships teams.
🎯 Requirements
- • K-12 classroom experience and understanding of educators' real-world problems
- • Builder mindset with experience in tinkering, prototyping, and making things with new tools
- • Strong working understanding of prompting, including system prompt design, few-shot techniques, knowledge grounding, and getting reliable outputs from LLMs
- • Experience with design thinking, rapid prototyping, or helping people learn by doing
- • Strong relationship-building skills and ability to earn trust with educators, school leaders, and district partners
- • Commitment to equity and access, with a focus on reaching historically marginalized communities
🏖️ Benefits
- • Real impact by working directly with educators and students to bring AI building into classrooms nationwide
- • Mission-aligned team of practitioners who have lived the challenges educators face, backed by major foundations
- • Creative autonomy and ownership over how you build and design with partner communities
- • Flexible remote-first work with opportunities for meaningful in-person time with partner communities
- • Competitive pay and benefits including salary, healthcare, retirement, generous time off, and professional growth opportunities
Skills & Technologies
About Playlab Inc.
Playlab Inc. is a San Francisco–based education technology company that builds AI-powered tools for teachers and students. Its platform lets educators create, share, and remix interactive lessons and AI tutors without writing code, integrating with Google Classroom and other LMSs. Founded in 2022 by former Google and Stanford team members, the company focuses on lowering the barrier to personalized learning experiences while keeping humans in the loop for safety and quality.
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