Generative AI Engineer

Job Title : Generative AI Engineer

Location : REMOTE

Employment Type : FULL TIME

About Us :

Amira Learning accelerates literacy outcomes by delivering the latest reading and neuroscience with AI. As the leader in third-generation edtech, Amira listens to students read out loud, assesses mastery, helps teachers supplement instruction and delivers 1 : 1 tutoring. We seek to help more students learn how to read than any other company in the world. Amira is a rapidly growing and renowned AI startup that was recently named by Business Insider as one of 30 startups to bet your career on. The company is Fast Company's #1 most innovative company in the education category (2025), the only education company in the Forbes Top 50 AI Companies (2024), was a Time Magazine Best Invention (2021), has been featured in the NY Times and on NPR, selected as the "Future of Education" by the Wall Street Journal, won dozens of awards for software excellence, and has exploded into schools across the country.

Trusted by more than 2,000 districts and working in partnership with twelve state education agencies, Amira is helping 3.5 million students worldwide become motivated and masterful readers.

Who You Are :

• You are a self-motivated A-player who is results-oriented, hustles, and works at a fast pace
• You are a strong engineer with practical experience building / tuning and utilizing generative AI models, particularly in multimodal contexts (e.g., speech-to-LLM integration) or agentic AI systems.
• You have experience bridging speech technologies with large language models (LLMs), enabling interactive, voice-based dialogue.
• You have experience in areas such as prompt engineering, model evaluation and feedback, data processing for training and fine-tuning, utilization of human feedback, and / or training and inference optimization

What You'll Do :

You will help create generative AI based apps that will power the most widely used intelligent assistant in U.S. schools. To this end, you will :

Qualifications (Education and Experience) :

Preferred Qualifications :

Benefits :

Commitment to Diversity :

Amira Learning serves a diverse group of students and educators across the United States and internationally. We believe every student should have access to a high-quality education and that it takes a diverse group of people with a wide range of experiences to develop and deliver a product that meets that goal. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

The posted salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base salary the company reasonably expects to pay for this role. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, military service, or any other status protected by law.