Senior Learning Engineer – Lab Schools Focus

Playlab

Senior Learning Engineer designing AI educational tools for 13 lab schools in a 24-month initiative. Collaborating with teachers to create bespoke AI tools and mentoring regional learning engineers.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Anchor 4 to 5 Lab Schools.
Co-Steward the Cohort With the Lab Schools Learning Partner.
Build Bespoke AI Tools alongside teachers and leaders, including custom assessment tools, knowledge-graphed lesson planners, student-facing builders, and family communication apps tuned to each school's pedagogy.
Mentor Embedded Regional LEs anchored in NYC, Memphis, Austin, the DMV, and Tempe, sharpening their craft and helping them grow into senior practitioners.
Hold the Rubric for Lab Schools Builds.
Run High-Trust Coaching through drop-in sessions, async build support, and 1:1 video coaching with the most advanced builders and leaders across the network.
Co-Facilitate Quarterly Convenings.
Contribute Beyond the Cohort as Needs Arise.
Bring Field Insights Back to Playlab's product, engineering, and research teams to shape platform features and shared playbooks.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have 5+ years of classroom, instructional leadership, or school leadership experience and a deep respect for how hard the work of teaching is.
Have a senior builder's track record of shipping ambitious AI tools using advanced patterns (multi-step flows, evaluator loops, knowledge grounding, agentic design).
Have experience mentoring or coaching educators with patience and high standards in equal measure.
Have strong async and remote-first instincts, and can build trust over video and shared docs.
Are confident with prompting and AI app design, and understand how teachers and students actually use AI in real classrooms.
Have strong curation and documentation craft (build logs, playbooks, walkthroughs, recorded sessions) that genuinely helps others learn.
Are comfortable holding a primary anchor (the lab schools cohort) while flexing into adjacent work as the team's priorities evolve.
Care for equity and access at the center of the work.
Are willing to commit to the full 24-month cohort cadence, including four quarterly three-day convenings.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Retirement plans
Paid time off
Flexible work arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI tools developmentassessment toolsknowledge groundingagentic designasync build supportvideo coachingcurriculum designdocumentation craftplaybooksremote-first collaboration

Soft Skills

mentoringcoachingbuilding trustpatiencehigh standardscurationcommunicationflexibilityequityaccess