African Leadership X (ALX)

Education + 1 more

AI Engineer

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Description
Specific ResponsibilitiesProduction AI Products
  • Own Ai products in production, stable, observable, with regressions caught by evals before learners find them.
  • Take the next prototype from working demo to maintained product, with evals built in from the start rather than bolted on.
Agent Architecture & Context Engineering
  • Design the context and tooling architecture for the agents, what is in context, when, and why.
  • Build and maintain the service interfaces agents work through, such as the application’s access to the learner’s artifact window.
  • Keep long-running, multi-step agents reliable under real-world learner behaviour, with clear failure modes and recovery.
  • Build the habit of testing what you ship — eval loops, regression checks, and fast iteration as a default way of working.
Skill Requirements - Essential
  • Python & FastAPI: strong, production-grade experience with real users.
  • Shipped LLM applications: at least one AI/LLM application you have shipped and can discuss in detail — what broke, how you found out, what you changed. Scale matters less than what you learned from its failures.
  • Agent frameworks: working fluency with agent frameworks (we use LangGraph; equivalents fine) and a real point of view on context engineering.
  • Testing discipline: the habit of testing what you build.
  • AI-native coding with demonstrated harness engineering experience
  • Desirable (not required):
    • React and full-stack range;
    • Langfuse or similar observability; knowledge graphs.
    • Educational/Edtech domain experience
Essential Traits for Success
  • You build with AI, not just use it, proper harnesses, eval loops, and fast iteration.
  • You can’t put an interesting problem down.
  • You figure things out fast; we don’t need an exact-spec match if you have the base and the initiative.
  • You favour non-standard evidence of skill, a portfolio of weird side projects beats a polished CV.
Person Specification/Attributes
  • Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges.
  • Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others.
  • Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey.
  • Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond.
  • Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger.


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