SR AI Engineer

Role Summary

📚 Made up of people who transform education

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We are Arcotech, the technology team of Grupo Arco Educação, the largest basic education company in Latin America. Our challenge is audacious: we are building one of the largest Education Operating Systems in the world. To give dimension: we are the "brain" of more than 11 thousand schools, 1 in every 4 in Brazil. With the scale we have today, data from more than 4 million students, we apply AI masterfully — from LLMs for adaptive teaching and handwriting correction to agent orchestration for generating pedagogical content. Here, we combine technology and purpose. Join us to revolutionize education and build one of the best tech teams in Latin America!

#VEMPRAARCO 🧡 #VEMSERTECH

Now that you've captured a little more of our essence, let's talk about the opportunity? We are looking for a Sr AI Engineer to be part of a team dedicated exclusively to Artificial Intelligence, focused on keeping up with the latest advances in LLMs and Generative AI and quickly transforming them into high-impact solutions for Education. You will work alongside other AI Engineers and pedagogical specialists, in an environment of continuous learning, experimentation and collaboration, developing products that reach millions of students across Brazil.

Responsibilities

On a daily basis, you will

Leadership and Business Impact

• Be a technical reference for more junior engineers on the AI Engineering team, disseminating good practices and directing architectural choices for Software Engineering and AI Engineering;
• Proactively identify opportunities to apply Generative AI and Machine Learning that generate real impact on key business indicators;
• Translate business needs into viable technical solutions using LLMs and data.
• Co-create solutions with Product, Software Engineering and design teams
• AI and Software Engineering
• Lead the development of solutions with frontier LLMs that interact with millions of Education users
• Architect and develop advanced AI applications using Vector Databases, multimodal LLMs, Single Agents, Multi-Agent systems;

Develop and optimize annotation, validation and quality pipelines for LLM applications, implementing evals, LLM-as-a-judge, evaluation metrics, etc.

• Evolve and optimize the team's development stack (CI/CD, infrastructure for LLMs, governance and API/computation cost optimization)
• Innovation and Prototyping
• Interact with teachers, students, families, principals and pedagogical experts to co-create solutions for the educational environment
• Build and influence the team to build prototypes with speed and adaptability for rapid validation of business and technical hypotheses
• He is a reference in the team for monitoring new papers, technical blogs and main global AI conferences to bring trends, new libraries and AI techniques to the team.
• Genuine interest in the topic of Education and human learning
• Solid experience in Data Science, Machine Learning Engineering, Software Engineering (focused on data) or in the robust development of applications based on LLMs;
• Advanced command of Python, Git and depth in good Software Engineering practices (Clean Code, Unit Tests, Design Patterns);
• Excellent communication skills to translate complex technical concepts to product and business stakeholders;
• Previous experience with technical mentoring of engineering or data professionals;

Advanced English for reading technical literature, documentation and scientific articles at the frontier of AI knowledge.

Benefits

What would be a differentiator?

• Expertise in pedagogical topics
• In-depth experience with production and high-scale LLMs
• In-depth experience building systems that require recurring interaction with domain experts

One of Arcotech’s pillars is diversity. Our motivation is to keep moving, innovating and taking educational technologies to levels not yet seen. To this end, we believe in the strength of the word equity and respect for equal rights. Here we recognize singularities, differences and embrace them all.

• T-4195
• What you will find at Arco, besides incredible people:
• + Food voucher and/or Flash meal
• + SulAmerica health and dental plan
• + Transportation voucher for in-person and hybrid vacancies
• + Extended maternity and paternity leave
• + Daycare assistance
• + Health care: partnership with Wellhub and Zenklub
• + Encouragement of education
• + Discount on airline tickets
• + Partnership with pet health plan
• + Access to Arco teaching materials for employees’ children
• + Partnerships for MBA and Postgraduate
• #MoreDiversity

We believe that in a diverse and inclusive environment our people will be happier, more engaged and more likely to reach their full potential. Therefore, here at Arco, we respect and value equal rights, we recognize singularities and we believe that everyone can contribute to our purpose. #VemPraArco