# Staff Applied AI Engineer

Outsmart is a mission-driven, early-stage startup reimagining higher education for the age of AI by creating an entirely new collegiate experience that expands access and opportunity. Backed by $38M from top venture firms including Khosla Ventures, Forerunner, DST Global Partners, and Lightspeed, the company is led by former Duolingo executives and a founding team that also includes Emmy Award winners. With a strong culture centered around high-impact, detail-oriented team members, Outsmart is already seeing significant traction, generating 1-5 million weekly organic views on social media. What You’ll Be Doing In this role, you’ll be at the forefront of the AI that powers Outsmart’s applications. As an early member of the engineering team you’ll play a critical role in setting the tone for Outsmart’s technical culture including setting standards for algorithmic quality, scalability, and AI-first development. You will work on both generative and discriminative use cases, focusing on content generation at scale, gamification, benchmarking and analytics, multi-modal behavior classification from mobile signals, and continuously modernizing Outsmart’s SDLC. Who You Are 10 + years experi

- **Id**: 1125793
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/joinoutsmart-staff-applied-ai-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_regions
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries**: AR, BR, CO, MX, AI, AG, AW, BS, BB, BZ, BM, BO, VG, BQ, KY, CL, CR, CW, DM, DO, EC, SV, FK, GF, GD, GP, GT, GY, HT, HN
- **Hiring countries total**: 49
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T20:53:39Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T16:35:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2845
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: EdTech Platforms, Higher Education

## Company

- **Id**: 703517
- **Name**: Outsmart
- **Domain**: joinoutsmart.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/joinoutsmart>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 86000
- **Max usd**: 198000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 1279

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multimodal AI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Argentina** — Iso: AR; Kind: region
- **Brazil** — Iso: BR; Kind: region
- **Colombia** — Iso: CO; Kind: region
- **Mexico** — Iso: MX; Kind: region
- **Anguilla** — Iso: AI; Kind: region
- **Antigua and Barbuda** — Iso: AG; Kind: region
- **Aruba** — Iso: AW; Kind: region
- **Bahamas** — Iso: BS; Kind: region
- **Barbados** — Iso: BB; Kind: region
- **Belize** — Iso: BZ; Kind: region
- **Bermuda** — Iso: BM; Kind: region
- **Bolivia** — Iso: BO; Kind: region
- **British Virgin Islands** — Iso: VG; Kind: region
- **Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba** — Iso: BQ; Kind: region
- **Cayman Islands** — Iso: KY; Kind: region
- **Chile** — Iso: CL; Kind: region
- **Costa Rica** — Iso: CR; Kind: region
- **Curaçao** — Iso: CW; Kind: region
- **Dominica** — Iso: DM; Kind: region
- **Dominican Republic** — Iso: DO; Kind: region
- **Ecuador** — Iso: EC; Kind: region
- **El Salvador** — Iso: SV; Kind: region
- **Falkland Islands** — Iso: FK; Kind: region
- **French Guiana** — Iso: GF; Kind: region
- **Grenada** — Iso: GD; Kind: region
- **Guadeloupe** — Iso: GP; Kind: region
- **Guatemala** — Iso: GT; Kind: region
- **Guyana** — Iso: GY; Kind: region
- **Haiti** — Iso: HT; Kind: region
- **Honduras** — Iso: HN; Kind: region
- **Jamaica** — Iso: JM; Kind: region
- **Martinique** — Iso: MQ; Kind: region
- **Montserrat** — Iso: MS; Kind: region
- **Nicaragua** — Iso: NI; Kind: region
- **Panama** — Iso: PA; Kind: region
- **Paraguay** — Iso: PY; Kind: region
- **Peru** — Iso: PE; Kind: region
- **Puerto Rico** — Iso: PR; Kind: region
- **Saint Kitts and Nevis** — Iso: KN; Kind: region
- **Saint Lucia** — Iso: LC; Kind: region
- **Saint Vincent and the Grenadines** — Iso: VC; Kind: region
- **Saint-Pierre and Miquelon** — Iso: PM; Kind: region
- **Sint Maarten** — Iso: SX; Kind: region
- **Suriname** — Iso: SR; Kind: region
- **Trinidad and Tobago** — Iso: TT; Kind: region
- **Turks and Caicos Islands** — Iso: TC; Kind: region
- **Uruguay** — Iso: UY; Kind: region
- **United States Virgin Islands** — Iso: VI; Kind: region
- **Venezuela** — Iso: VE; Kind: region

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T21:32:30Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 22
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.629
- **P room**: 0.35
- **Age days**: 46
- **Expected fill days**: 7
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

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