About the job
Join a Billion-Dollar Mission in the Making
Subject is reimagining education from the ground up. We’re backed by Kleiner Perkins, SoftBank Opportunity Fund, Owl Ventures, and founders of category-defining companies. Now we’re building the most ambitious engineering team in edtech — and we’re looking for mission-focused superstars to join our team.
We’re building generative AI solutions that support grading, teacher insights, data analysis, student engagement, and personalized learning at unprecedented scale and speed. If you’re a full-stack senior engineer with experience in AI/LLM development and agent orchestration, this is your moment.
What You’ll Own
You’ll be driving core agentic AI systems and continue their evolution into best-in-class products for student and teacher support, performance analytics, real-time grading, and the personalization of education for every student. This is not just maintenance — it’s rethinking what’s possible.
Responsibilities
AI Product Ownership: Drive our agentic AI infrastructure for grading, data synthesis, student feedback, and more. Evolve prototype systems into high-scale, production-ready solutions.
LLM and Agent Orchestration: Implement, extend, and optimize AI agents using tools like LangChain, semantic search, vector databases, and OpenAI APIs. Design orchestrators that drive multi-step, human-in-the-loop workflows.
Hands-On Engineering: Write production-level code across front-end (Next.js, TypeScript) and back-end (Node.js, Postgres). Deploy through Docker, Vercel, and cloud services (GCP/AWS).
System Thinking: Architect scalable APIs, pipelines, and infrastructure for LLM interaction, data ingestion, grading workflows, and analytics dashboards.
Collaboration & Velocity: Partner with product, data, and content teams in rapid sprints. You’ll work face-to-face with senior leaders daily. Think fast. Move faster.
Quality & Leadership: Champion engineering standards while balancing technical debt and speed. Mentor mid-level engineers and help build a high-trust engineering culture.
You Bring
4+ years experience in full-stack engineering, with real-world ownership of production systems.
Deep understanding of prompt engineering, LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini), vector stores (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate), and agentic frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT, or similar).
Experience with orchestration of multiple AI agents and human-in-the-loop decision-making flows.
Frontend fluency in Next.js, React, TypeScript; backend confidence in Node.js, Postgres.
DevOps skills in Docker, CI/CD, and cloud (AWS or GCP).
Startup hunger: You’ve shipped with incomplete specs, found creative solutions, and worn many hats.
Speed and grit: You operate at championship pace, make decisions quickly, and iterate faster than anyone you know.
Cultural Fit
We are a championship team — not a family. We care, but we perform. We win together.
You thrive in intensity. 60+ hour weeks? In-office every day? That’s your edge.
You believe impact beats pedigree. Your resume is just the starting point — your results will speak loudest.
Mission-Driven Tech That Changes Lives
At Subject, we’re building tools that directly help students graduate high school, improve outcomes, and unlock opportunities. Every line of code has impact. Every model deployed touches real learners.
We’re not in this to participate. We’re here to change the future — and if you are too, we want to talk.
Skills Required
- 4+ years experience in full-stack engineering
- Deep understanding of prompt engineering and LLM APIs
- Experience with orchestration of multiple AI agents
- Frontend fluency in Next.js, React, TypeScript
- Backend confidence in Node.js, Postgres
- DevOps skills in Docker, CI/CD, and cloud (AWS or GCP)
Subject Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Subject and has not been reviewed or approved by Subject.
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Healthcare Strength — Coverage includes medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, alongside wellness programs, mental health benefits, and wellness days. Feedback suggests this breadth supports core health needs beyond basics.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous PTO, paid holidays, paid sick days, and company‑wide vacations are provided. This mix indicates a wide range of time‑off options for rest and recovery.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company equity and performance bonuses are part of the total rewards. This signals access to ownership upside in addition to cash compensation.
Subject Insights
What We Do
We empower districts with accredited middle and high school original credit, credit recovery, and multilingual courses that meet the needs of today’s learners and educators. Our platform was built from the ground up based on extensive feedback from educators and team members who understand firsthand the challenges of teaching today's digital-native students. Teachers told us they needed better ways to engage students, track progress effortlessly, and improve district-wide outcomes—and we listened. Through close collaboration with educators, we developed features that directly address their most pressing needs: bite-sized, engaging video content that captures student attention, flexible language support to serve diverse student populations, comprehensive homework help, seamless progress monitoring tools that save teachers time, and comprehensive analytics that help districts boost graduation rates and student success metrics. Backed by top accreditations (Cognia, WASC) and approvals (UC-AG, NCAA, College Board), Subject delivers measurable results that administrators can trust. Our partner districts report increased student engagement, improved completion rates, and stronger academic outcomes. Ready to transform learning in your district? Let's discuss how Subject can help you achieve your educational goals.
Why Work With Us
Our vision is to revolutionize education by empowering all students with the ability to outperform their current trajectory. We will change the world by increasing society’s access to high quality education, improving high school graduation rates and giving our students better access to top colleges and universities.
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