Staff AI Engineer - AI Creator

Datacamp

Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

Desired Candidate Profile

You re a strong builder who thrives on turning cutting-edge AI capabilities into real, high-impact products. You operate with high ownership, move quickly, and care deeply about quality balancing experimentation with disciplined execution.

You re comfortable working in ambiguity but don t wait for perfect direction you break down problems, make progress, and iterate. You want to work on systems that matter, alongside people who are pushing the boundaries of how AI can transform learning.

Technical

• Proven experience building and shipping LLM-powered products in production environments.
• Strong prompt engineering skills and hands-on experience with agentic workflows or multi-step model interactions.
• Solid grasp of experimentation comfortable designing, running, and interpreting experiments to drive improvements.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals (Python), with experience building scalable systems and working in modern production environments.

Product & Pedagogy

• Strong product instincts able to connect model behavior to user experience and outcomes.
• Interest in building effective learning experiences; curiosity about how people learn and where AI can accelerate that.
• Ability to work closely with non-engineering stakeholders to ship cohesive, user-centered solutions.

Character & Collaboration

• High ownership and bias for action you move things forward without waiting for perfect clarity.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with evolving constraints.
• Clear communicator who contributes to a strong, low-ego engineering culture.