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A full-time role owning the technical vision for how Desk understands each student’s knowledge, and leading the knowledge-modelling engine that updates as they learn.

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Head of AI

London, UK · Full-time

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical vision for how Desk understands and represents each student’s knowledge
  • Lead development of the knowledge-modelling engine that updates as students learn
  • Ensure every AI interaction is informed by up-to-date student, course and deadline context

Requirements

Essential

  • Strong hands-on experience designing and building retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems
  • Deep expertise in prompt engineering and context engineering for LLM-powered products
  • Solid understanding of knowledge tracing and learner/knowledge modelling techniques
  • Ability to architect a system that models each user’s individual knowledge state, tracking what a student knows and doesn’t know
  • Full-stack experience

Desirable

  • You use AI coding tools daily and know where they help and where they don’t
  • Experience managing a multi-person team

Remuneration

  • Equity and salary open to negotiation

How to apply

Send your CV and a 1-page cover letter to careers@desk.study. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an interview.

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