Kira Learning
Education
AILearningScientist
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“AI Learning Scientist at Kira Learning. Skills: AI features, Learning outcomes, Instructional strategies, Student understanding. Partner with product and engineering teams. Ground AI features in instructional strategies”
What You'll Achieve.
Ensure AI features are pedagogically sound; Genuinely improve learning outcomes; Improve student outcomes
Industry & Context.
Work from San Francisco or New York City, Come into office 4 days a week
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Working knowledge of K-12 instruction, Experience designing and evaluating learning interventions, Comfortable working with technical teams, Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, Degree in learning sciences, educational psychology, cognitive science, or related field
Nice to Have
Classroom teaching experience in K-12, Worked in edtech product environment, Published research on AI tutors, intelligent tutoring systems, mastery learning, or adaptive assessment, Experience with MTSS, response to intervention, or other tiered support frameworks, Hands-on experience running pilots or efficacy studies with school districts
What You'll Do.
Partner with product and engineering teams
Ground AI features in instructional strategies
Shape how we measure student understanding
Partner with product and curriculum teams
Contribute to how we evaluate AI systems
Represent Kira's pedagogical approach
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Product and engineering teams; Product and curriculum teams
Communication Scope
Written materials; Conference talks; Customer conversations
Full Job Description
It is Kira Learning's mission to harness transformative AI technologies to make world-class teaching and learning accessible to everyone. Kira is a rapidly growing startup backed by top-tier Venture Capital funds including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Andrew Ng's AI Fund, and Primavera. We live in a world where technology is rapidly changing the educational experiences of students and teachers everywhere, and we have the opportunity to shape how this change takes place. As an AI Learning Scientist at Kira, you will help ensure that the AI features we build are pedagogically sound and actually move student outcomes. AI is reshaping what classrooms and student learning looks like, and you will help define what high-quality learning looks like in this new era. You will partner with our product and engineering teams to ground our AI systems in evidence-based learning science, and you will help ensure that what we build improves student outcomes. This is a full-time position that frequently requires flexibility outside regular business hours for launches, incidents, or collaboration across time zones. We have offices in San Francisco and New York City. We ask that employees work from one of the two locations, and come into the office 4 days a week (Wednesdays WFH). What You'll Do - You will partner with product and engineering teams to ensure our student-facing AI features, such as our AI tutor, are pedagogically sound and genuinely improve learning outcomes. - You will ground our AI features in evidence-based instructional strategies, including scaffolding, worked examples, retrieval practice, and adaptive feedback. - You will help shape how we measure student understanding and progress over time, working closely with the AI team on personalization and mastery. - You will partner with product and curriculum teams on standards alignment, skill progressions, and the cognitive demand of the work students do on Kira. - You will contribute to how we evaluate the quality
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