Principal AI Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 80,000 per year

Requirements:

• At least 1 year of experience building complex LLM-based systems, with strong prompt engineering intuition and experience designing agentic workflows.
• Ability to design meaningful evaluation methods, including custom metrics and frameworks when off-the-shelf options are insufficient.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, architectural thinking, and fluency in Python; comfort working with production infrastructure, cloud environments, and CI/CD.
• Active interest in AI research and emerging capabilities, with the ability to apply new ideas creatively to real problems.
• Empathy for learners and content creators, and ability to translate pedagogical goals into system behavior and product decisions.
• Ability to reason across AI behavior, content structure, platform features, and user experience.
• Familiarity with learning science or a desire to develop expertise in it.
• Persistence in exploring and refining difficult, ambiguous problems without a clear blueprint.
• Preference for elegance and simplicity in system design.
• Clear communication across mediums and interest in mentoring and collaborating in small, high-ownership teams.
• Adaptability, initiative, an entrepreneurial spirit, a collaborative approach, and alignment with our values of data-driven decision-making, action, transparency, ownership, and customer focus.

Responsibilities:

• Build and evolve our core AI tutoring system, including prompt architectures, agentic workflows, and real-time adaptive behaviors.
• Run rigorous experiments and evaluations, developing custom metrics and frameworks to measure learning effectiveness and improve model reliability.
• Design and implement scalable, maintainable software that integrates AI capabilities with platform systems, content pipelines, and user experience components.
• Collaborate with educators, content creators, and product teams to translate pedagogical goals into technical solutions.
• Prototype and productionize novel model interactions, using emerging research and capabilities to advance the tutors intelligence.
• Ensure quality, safety, and observability through monitoring, testing, guardrails, and iterative refinement of model behavior.
• Share knowledge and support teammates, contributing to a culture of clarity, simplicity, and continuous learning.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Support
• LLM
• Python

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At DataCamp, our mission is to empower everyone with the data and AI skills essential for success in the 21st century. We provide practical, engaging learning experiences and partner with more than 17 million learners and 6,000+ companies, including 80% of the Fortune 1000. Were developing an AI tutoring system designed to deliver real-time, adaptive learning experiences and bring personalized tutoring to scale. This role can be performed remotely from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Portugal, or the UAE. Were a dynamic, creative, international start-up offering competitive compensation and benefits, flexible working hours, a yearly learning budget for conferences and training, international company retreats, and an annual IT equipment budget refresh for home working.

last updated 40 week of 2026