Playlab
Tech / AI / Software
LearningEngineer[LabSchoolsFocus]
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“Learning Engineer [Lab Schools Focus] at Playlab. Skills: Learning Engineering, AI, education, coaching, building AI tools, documentation, collaboration. Support 2 to 3 Lab Schools. Hold the relationship with each school's founding team across the 24-month partnership”
What You'll Achieve.
equip communities with AI tools and hands-on professional development that empowers educators and students to build custom AI apps for their unique context; Over 40, 000 educators have published apps on Playlab, and the impact is growing every day; redesigning teaching and learning around AI; launching or pivoting a learning model where AI is a core design material; ships at month 24 for the rest of the field to learn from; deliver consistent technical support across your assigned schools and contribute to phase-by-phase programming; ships at month 24 for the field to learn from; Your work directly supports how 13 lab schools use AI to redesign teaching and learning, and what the field learns from them; contribute to the open-source playbook that opens to the field at month 24
Industry & Context.
analytical skills
commit to the full 24-month cohort cadence, including four quarterly three-day convenings
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of classroom, instructional coaching, or school-based experience, a track record of shipping AI tools, experience supporting educators with patience and high standards in equal measure, async and remote-first instincts, confident with prompting and AI app design, understand how teachers and students actually use AI in real classrooms, solid documentation craft (build logs, walkthroughs, recorded sessions) that helps others learn, care for equity and access at the center of the work, willing to commit to the full 24-month cohort cadence, including four quarterly three-day convenings
Nice to Have
Experience supporting instructional technology or PD work across multiple classrooms or schools, Familiarity with knowledge-graph-grounded AI tools or agentic design patterns, Experience supporting both student- and adult-facing AI initiatives, Connections to school-design organizations, lab schools, or AI-in-education nonprofit, comfortable holding a primary anchor (the lab schools cohort) while flexing into adjacent work as the team's priorities evolve
What You'll Do.
Support 2 to 3 Lab Schools
Hold the relationship with each school's founding team across the 24-month partnership
run build sessions and coaching
work closely with the Senior Learning Engineer anchoring the cohort
carry the technical craft across the full arc: discovery
and the open-source playbook
Build Bespoke AI Tools alongside teachers and leaders
Contribute to the Open-Source Playbook
capture patterns from your schools
feed insights into the playbook
Run Coaching Sessions through drop-in office hours
and 1: 1 video coaching
Co-Facilitate Quarterly Convenings
Grow Your Craft through regular practice with senior LEs
and ongoing mentorship
Contribute Beyond the Cohort as Needs Arise
Step into adjacent partnerships
cross-team initiatives
or new bets that benefit from LE craft
Bring Field Insights Back to Playlab's product
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
embedded thought partner to lab school founding teams; work closely with the Senior Learning Engineer anchoring the cohort; growing your practice alongside a team of senior practitioners; Partner With the Senior LE in Your Region; Work alongside the Senior Learning Engineer anchoring the cohort to deliver consistent technical support across your assigned schools and contribute to phase-by-phase programming; Co-Facilitate Quarterly Convenings; supporting build sessions and hosting office hours alongside the broader Lab Schools team; Grow Your Craft through regular practice with senior LEs, build reviews, and ongoing mentorship from the Head of Learning Engineering; Contribute Beyond the Cohort as Needs Arise; Step into adjacent partnerships, cross-team initiatives, or new bets that benefit from LE craft; Bring Field Insights Back to Playlab's product, engineering, and research teams to shape platform features and shared playbooks; culture of collaboration
Communication Scope
listen before suggesting; build trust over video and shared docs; communication
Full Job Description
ABOUT PLAYLAB Playlab is a tech non-profit dedicated to helping educators and students become critical consumers and creators of AI. We believe that an open-source, community-driven approach is key to harnessing the potential of AI in education. We equip communities with AI tools and hands-on professional development that empowers educators and students to build custom AI apps for their unique context. Over 40,000 educators have published apps on Playlab, and the impact is growing every day. At Playlab, we believe that AI is a new design material, one that should be shaped by many to bring their ideas about learning to life. If you're passionate about building creative, equitable futures for students and teachers, we hope you'll join us. THE ROLE Playlab seeks a Learning Engineer to support our work across the AI Lab Schools cohort: a 13-school, 24-month partnership where teachers and leaders are redesigning teaching and learning around AI. The cohort is the most ambitious thing Playlab has ever taken on. Each of the 13 schools is launching or pivoting a learning model where AI is a core design material. They need Playlab partners who can carry the technical craft across the full arc: discovery, prototype, classroom pilot, scale, and the open-source playbook that ships at month 24 for the rest of the field to learn from. As an embedded thought partner to lab school founding teams, you will hold trusted relationships with two to three schools in your region, run build sessions and coaching, and work closely with the Senior Learning Engineer anchoring the cohort. You will be a steady technical presence schools rely on, the person who shows up with care, listens before suggesting, and brings craft into every conversation about what to build. This work spans embedded coaching, hands-on building, contribution to shared playbooks, and growing your practice alongside a team of senior practitioners. Whether a school is launching a brand new model or pivoting an existing pro
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