Curriculum Developer

AI is the new electricity. Millions of AI engineers are needed to transform industries with AI, particularly in the realm of GenAI, and we’re building an education platform to train them. With a mission to grow and connect the global AI community, DeepLearning.AI is an education technology company that is empowering the global workforce to build an AI-powered future through world-class education, hands-on training, and a collaborative community. We’re a small tech company with serious credentials, exciting marketing challenges, and wonderful teammates.

DeepLearning.AI is looking for a Curriculum Developer (CD) to work with our internal Curriculum Product Managers (CPMs) and network of world experts in the AI space to create high-quality education content. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in learning experience design to help Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) produce high-quality courses and effective learning experiences. Your experience as an educator, your technical skills in the AI space, and your ability to communicate and work well with a team will all be critical for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Convert the SME’s vision into effective learning content: Our SMEs are experts in their technical domain but are not always teaching or curriculum experts. You will take their ideas and rough materials (hand-sketched slides, bullet-pointed notes, or recorded video lectures) and convert them into learner-facing content (slides, scripts, quizzes, reading items, etc.). Although you do not have to be an expert in the subject of every course, you must be sufficiently technical to understand the material and its intent, and rapidly upskill, before or in the process of creating a new program.
• Review and provide feedback on technical content: You will be learner zero, and the judge and advocate of how other learners may perceive the material. This requires expertise in instructional design and an ability to empathize with learners. You will need to identify areas of improvement in material produced by SMEs or your peers, suggest solutions, and implement them.
• Ensure consistently high content quality and good pedagogy. Effective courses are accurate, cohesive, and engaging. You will be working with peers, with the guidance of the SME and CPM to provide the connective tissue that aligns all the various pieces of feedback and content together. In this generalist role, you could be creating assessments one day, and making video edits to align the scripts and slides the next, all with great attention to detail.

Requirements:

• Technical background in math and programming at a level sufficient to follow and successfully complete an online course in machine learning such as DLAI’s Deep Learning Specialization. We expect you to be proficient in math (calculus, linear algebra, statistics etc.) as well as Python programming (functions, classes, data structures etc.) at a level where you can rapidly learn ML / AI topic areas that are new to you. Basic knowledge of AI / machine learning is required.
• Graduate degree (Master’s or PhD) in fields like Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related STEM area, or equivalent industry experience with hands-on expertise in machine learning, software development, or data-driven model deployment.
• In-depth knowledge and experience designing and/or teaching technical courses online or offline , with experience in designing, structuring, and teaching technical courses specifically in machine learning, data science, or artificial intelligence. Demonstrated ability to create interactive, applied learning experiences.
• Experience designing and/or teaching technical courses online or offline. Must have created slide presentations, reading or lecture material, and assessments for post-secondary or adult learners.
• Excellent communicator with the ability to author and edit high-quality written content in English.
• A team player with a willingness to be flexible in timing and tasks to produce the best quality product.

Preferred:

• A PhD in Math, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Industry experience as a data scientist, machine learning engineer, or similar.
• Previous experience developing online asynchronous curricula in the areas of AI, machine learning, data science, robotics, or similar.
• Familiarity with pedagogical practices such as defining learning objectives and backward design, as well as experience applying such practices in the creation of online educational content.

Our Defining Values:

• We care deeply about our learners: We let our learner's needs guide our actions and decisions and put our mission ahead of ourselves.
• We are great at what we do: We strive for excellence in all dimensions, especially in the quality of the content we create and the people we hire.
• We default to action: We are comfortable acting with limited information and taking ownership of our decisions.
• We ask why: We ask the hard questions and are open to being in the wrong. We advocate for the best ideas, not our ideas.
• We are honest and authentic: We are transparent as an organization, over-communicate to build trust, and share our failures just as we do our successes.
• We do this together: We help each other grow and succeed and have fun at work, even in a remote environment.

What we offer:

• DeepLearning.AI offers a competitive compensation package including a monthly education stipend, flexible PTO, and much more. Individual compensation offers will vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, education/training and skill level.

At DeepLearning.AI, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. DeepLearning.AI believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees are critical to our success as a company. We seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Selection for employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.