AI Engineer: Multimodal Agentic Tutor

Remote (US Preferred)  |  Full-time  |  Reporting to CTO

We’re a fast-moving team reimagining education through AI. Our mission is to deliver personalized, adaptive learning experiences that scale. Backed by leading partners and driven by impact, we’re building tools that empower students and educators every day.

Job Description

We’re hiring an AI Engineer to help drive development of our multimodal agentic tutor—an intelligent, interactive learning companion built entirely in TypeScript. You’ll play a hands-on role in coding, architecture, and prompt engineering as we push the boundaries of how students engage with AI in real-time across text, visuals, and audio.
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This is a high-impact, high-ownership position at the intersection of product, research, and infrastructure. You’ll help shape the underlying architecture, define new agent behaviors, and fine-tune model components to deliver a world-class tutoring experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build key components of our multimodal tutor in TypeScript
• Lead architectural decisions across evolving agentic flows and system design
• Write and maintain prompt logic and orchestration for real-time student interaction
• Implement and refine agent behaviors, memory, and multimodal response strategies
• Collaborate closely with product and education teams to guide tutor effectiveness
• Fine-tune and evaluate components of the tutor framework for performance and personalization
• Stay current with rapid developments in multimodal models and agentic frameworks—bringing new ideas into production

Qualifications

• Strong engineering background with advanced TypeScript skills
• Experience building real-time, interactive, or AI-integrated applications
• 2+ years working with LLMs, prompt engineering, or multi-agent systems
• Ability to lead architectural design in fast-evolving environments
• Interest in multimodal systems (text, images, audio) and their educational applications
• Passion for improving how students learn, with a builder’s mindset and high ownership

Why Join Atypical?

At Atypical, you will have the opportunity to learn every detail about this brave new AI-powered world, and to work on exciting, complex, and deeply meaningful problems, shaping the future of education for decades to come. We offer competitive compensation, unlimited PTO and a flexible work schedule, a learning & development stipend, and more. Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, creativity, and inclusivity.