Senior AI Native Engineer, Guild Education
$194.4-211.2k
+ Stock options
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Open for applications
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$194.4-211.2k
+ Stock options
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who combines strong technical skills with deep empathy for users and fellow engineers, and who is passionate about shaping the future of AI-powered experiences in a mission-driven environment
- 8+ years in software development, with strength in frontend or full-stack work. Proficient in modern web technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript) and backend services (REST/GraphQL)
- Hands-on expertise integrating ML models or AI services into production applications and delivering tangible business or user value. Familiar with NLP, recommender systems, and generative AI
- Skilled in using model APIs and applying concepts like embeddings, prompt engineering, fallback strategies, and cost optimization
- Proven ability to design systems, libraries, or components for reuse across teams and products
- Experience creating adaptive, context-aware interfaces that surface AI outputs naturally and effectively enhance user journeys
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with product, design, and other stakeholder teams to ship production-ready AI features. Adept at articulating complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders
What the job involves
- Guild is hiring a Senior Engineer to join our AI Native Experiences team
- This is a high-impact role for an experienced engineer that is excited to build AI-native features that redefine how users interact with Guild’s platform
- You’ll develop intelligent, dynamic, and responsive interfaces that use machine learning to personalize products and systems in real time; helping learners navigate education and career opportunities with clarity and support
- As part of a cross-functional team, you’ll partner closely with product, design, and MLOps to bring AI capabilities into our frontend and full-stack architecture
- You’ll build production-grade systems that are scalable, maintainable, and reusable; helping establish patterns and tools that enable other teams across Guild to build with AI
- Build and ship user-facing experiences powered by capabilities like summarization, personalization, semantic search, and classification. Ensure these features deliver intuitive, real-time, and context-aware responses that enhance user decision-making and engagement
- Create and maintain reusable components and integration patterns for embedding AI into frontends across Guild’s platform. Ensure these solutions are easy to adopt by other product teams, supporting scalability across multiple products and client implementations
- Partner with MLOps to define reliable model interface standards and deploy internal/external APIs with performance and cost in mind. Work closely with product, UX, and external partners to align AI-driven solutions with client needs, user expectations, and business priorities
- Integrate and monitor third-party AI services (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), ensuring robust error handling, response accuracy, and system observability. Proactively address performance issues or model drifts to ensure features meet enterprise-grade reliability standards
- Collaborate with design to create AI interactions that are simple, transparent, and responsive to user context. Champion responsible AI practices that prioritize user trust, privacy, and inclusivity
- Share expertise in AI integration, prompt engineering, and model orchestration to support peer growth and onboarding of rotating team members. Contribute to a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement
- Stay ahead of AI and frontend trends, identifying practical innovations in areas like semantic search and conversational interfaces. Propose and prototype ideas that push the boundaries of AI-native product experiences while balancing competing priorities across clients and teams
- Advocate for the transformative potential of AI in education and workforce advancement
- Take initiatives from prototyping through deployment and iteration of AI-powered features using expertise, on-going research and pro-active problem solving
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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