Playlab
Tech / AI / Software
SeniorLearningEngineer[MathFocus]
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“Senior Learning Engineer [Math Focus] at Playlab. Skills: Mathematics expertise, AI tool development, Coaching math educators. Building AI tools for math teaching and learning. Coaching math educators”
What You'll Achieve.
Help grow a rich and diverse community of educators creating and using AI tools; Shift what's possible in a classroom through AI tools; Get to real, workable solutions with partners; Shape where our product team goes next; Help the platform get sharper for math use cases
Industry & Context.
Identify high leverage opportunities; Moving from a real classroom problem to a working AI tool; Handling correctness & alignment with a given use case or approach
Willing to travel to partner sites for in-person build days, coaching, and design sprints
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of K-12 math classroom or instructional leadership experience, Experience using, interrogating, and creating AI tools, Experience mentoring or coaching math educators or instructional coaches, Willingness to travel to partner sites for in-person build days, coaching, and design sprints
Nice to Have
Background in math curriculum design, assessment design, or learning science focused on math cognition, Experience with structured math knowledge sources, proof systems, or computer algebra integrations alongside LLMs, Familiarity with major math curricula (Illustrative Math, Eureka, Open Up, etc.), Bilingual (especially Spanish/English), A network across math-focused districts, math nonprofits, or math teacher communities
What You'll Do.
Building AI tools for math teaching and learning
Coaching math educators
Shaping how AI shows up in math classrooms
Designing and building math-specific apps and starter collections
Mentoring other Learning Engineers on math-adjacent work
Holding trusted relationships with math teachers
and curriculum leaders
Adapting AI tool building with each district's curriculum
Identifying high leverage opportunities for creating AI apps
Building Bespoke Math Apps on Playlab for and with partner organizations
Co-Designing With Math Educators
Setting the Bar for Math AI Tools across the platform
Contributing to evaluation
and benchmarking work
Helping open source work to the field
Sharing learnings at conferences
academic publications
Mentoring LEs on Math-Adjacent Work
Running High-Trust Coaching
Pushing the Boundaries of What's Possible in Math Apps
Supporting Student-Facing Math Building
Bringing Field Insights Back to Playlab's product
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Deep collaboration with partners; Working alongside partner organizations; Reporting to the Head of Learning Engineering; Partnering closely with the Head of K-12 Partnerships; Collaborating with the broader Learning Engineering team; Working with Playlab's product and engineering teams; Bringing insights from the field back to product, engineering, and research teams; Collaborating with partners on evaluation and quality systems; Mentoring other Learning Engineers
Communication Scope
Speaking to technical challenges; Sharing insights from the field
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 Senior Learning Engineer with deep mathematics expertise to join our growing Learning Engineering team. This role is anchored in K-12 math: building AI tools, coaching math educators, and shaping how AI shows up in math classrooms across our partner schools and districts. If you’re successful, you’ll help grow a rich and diverse community of Dan Meyer like educators: people with deep expertise in mathematics education who are actually creating and using AI tools that reflect their expertise and values. Math is one of the highest-leverage and most demanding places to put AI to work in K-12. Confident wrong answers can do real harm. Tools that scaffold student thinking, make teacher prep faster, and surface real misconceptions can shift what's possible in a classroom. Playlab's partner network includes a growing concentration of math-focused districts, networks, and curriculum partners, and we want a senior practitioner who can hold the math craft bar across that work. As Playlab's senior math voice, you will hold trusted relationships with math teachers, coaches, and curriculum leaders, design and build math-specific apps and starter collections, and mentor other Learning Engineers as they take on math-adjace
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