Join to apply for the Founding AI Engineer role at Edexia (YC W25)Join to apply for the Founding AI Engineer role at Edexia (YC W25)This range is provided by Edexia (YC W25). Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more.Base pay range$80,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yrAbout EdexiaEdexia is on a mission to fix the mess we call the education system. We''re starting with assessmentthe area that places the greatest burden on educators and offers the most immediate impact for positive change. By revolutionising how assessment works, we''re creating a cascade of improvements that will transform education from the ground up.While others in EdTech are content with wrapping a basic UI around existing LLMs, we''re taking the opposite approachbuilding sophisticated AI systems that actually solve the hardest problems in education (look at What You''ll Build to find out more).Our vision extends far beyond assessment. We''re creating the foundation for systemic educational change, addressing the fundamental misalignments and inefficiencies that have plagued schools for generations. We''ve already secured contracts with schools across Australia and the US. We raised $4M USD at a $35M valuation after completing Y Combinator.About UsWe''re a small, focused 3-person team based in Brisbane, Australia. The CEO, Daniel Gibbon, and CTO Nathan are both second-time technical founders who previously built an EdTech to $200k ARR at 18 in just 1 year while achieving a perfect GPA. Now we are all on a mission to rebuild the education system from the ground up with AI.This Job is Perfect for You IfYou''re excited about solving challenging technical problems that have direct, meaningful impact on education and are willing to work relentlessly toward a central vision.You value being part of a highly intelligent, driven team that pushes each other to excel.Must HavesBe incredibly smart, good at solving complex problems, and learning new things quickly.Be willing to work relentlessly to accomplish a vision of rebuilding our education system from the ground up with AI.Genuinely care about having a positive impact through your career.Have good baseline life and work habits and a willingness to relentlessly optimise every aspect of your life to maximise your productivity and fulfilment.Have some form of technical background, even if that is just math or physics.Have the confidence to keep pace with some of the smartest, most driven people in the world.Nice to HavesDomain expertise in software engineering.Domain expertise in AI/ML.Domain expertise in education.Historical achievement that backs up your intellectual abilities (e.g. IMO/IOI medals).What You''ll BuildAs part of our team, you''ll work on aspects of these challenges that both:Move the needle most significantly for our company and missionAlign with your interests and strengthswhether that''s core AI architecture, UI/UX design, reinforcement learning systems, or data pipeline engineeringAssessment Is Our Strategic Starting Point. To Provide Significant Impact In This Area, We Need To Solve Two Core Technical Challenges, After Which We Can Continue To Work On The Infinite Number Of Technical Challenges To Ultimately Rebuild Education. The Two Core Current Technical Challenges Are:The Human-AI Alignment Problem: Interpreting RubricsProblem: Grading rubrics include vague terms like "informed" versus "adequate," resulting in inconsistent, inaccurate, and biased evaluation from both humans and LLMs. We need to extract teachers'' existing conscious and unconscious interpretation of these variables and help them further define them into precise evaluation parameters.Solutions:Rubric unpacking workflow to make a sophisticated initial guess of the interpretationReal-time voice AI rubric training coaches that have conversations with teachers to align on interpretationReinforcement learning components that extract patterns from teacher correctionsThe Complex Marking Process: Accurately Evaluating Student WorkProblem: Assessment requires making hundreds of discrete decisions about student work that could be in any format (typed, handwritten, graphs, equations) and cover any subject area. Each parameter of analysis could be evaluating anything from mathematical validity to grammar to logical coherence.Solutions:Multi-agent workflows that break down complex assessment tasks into processing, identification, analysis, and communicationOCR and computer vision systems that can handle diverse formatsTask-specific analysis modules for different types of evaluationSystems for converting AI judgments into clear, actionable feedbackBoth Challenges Require a Sophisticated Two-level Optimization Approach:System architecture level: Breaking down complex problems into flexible multi-agent infrastructures that subdivide the work intelligentlyEnd-to-end evaluation frameworks to test complete performanceIndividual agent level: Optimising each specific component for its particular taskUnit-level testing for each component and decision pointWhen Optimising Individual Agents, We Often Do The Following:First, we evaluate and combine existing models on the market in intelligent waysWe experiment with different task decompositions and prompting techniquesWhen needed, we explore fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from feedbackAs a last resort, we develop our own custom models for specific tasksTo power ongoing improvement, you''ll help build our data engine. Like Tesla''s autonomous driving fleet, we''re creating systems that collect and leverage real-world usage.Tech StackPython for AI development and model integrationVarious LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.)Custom OCR and computer vision componentsReinforcement learning frameworksWeb technologies for the frontend (handled primarily by our CTO)Cloud infrastructure for deployment and scalingSeniority levelSeniority levelEntry levelEmployment typeEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionJob functionEngineering and Information TechnologyIndustriesEducationReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at Edexia (YC W25) by 2xGet notified about new Artificial Intelligence Engineer jobs in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.Cloud & AI Solution Engineer - AI & Agentic ApplicationsBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 weeks agoPython and Kubernetes Software Engineer - Data, AI/ML & AnalyticsBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 months agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia A$140,000.00-A$160,000.00 3 weeks agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 week agoPython and Kubernetes Software Engineer - Data, Workflows, AI/ML & AnalyticsBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 weeks agoData Engineer at Mining Company (PH-based only, Remote)Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 6 days agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 weeks agoBrisbane City, Queensland, Australia A$125.00-A$150.00 1 week agoIndooroopilly, Queensland, Australia 5 days agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 week agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 days agoAI Technical Developer - Agentic PlatformsBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 week agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia A$115,000.00-A$135,000.00 1 week agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 weeks agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 days agoBusiness Analyst/Developer - AI & Automation SpecialistBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 weeks agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 12 hours agoBrisbane City, Queensland, Australia 3 weeks agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 3 weeks agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 4 days agoBrisbane City, Queensland, Australia 2 hours agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 13 hours agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 month agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 weeks agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 weeks agoBrisbane City, Queensland, Australia 1 week agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 6 days agoBrisbane City, Queensland, Australia 1 day agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia A$140,000.00-A$160,000.00 1 day agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 2 weeks agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 week agoSouth Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 week agoSouth Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 1 week agoBrisbane, Queensland, Australia 5 hours agoWere unlocking community knowledge in a new way. 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Founding AI Engineer