Job Description
OtherUniversity (OU) is building the world’s first AI-powered university for degree apprenticeships - a new model of higher education that is faster, smarter, employer-funded, and built for real professional mastery.
We are looking for a Lead AI Engineer to join as our founding technical hire.
This is a hands-on role: you will design, build, and own the core AI systems that power Prof. T, our 24/7 AI professor.
If you want to build something important, ambitious, and first-of-its-kind - this is it.
What you'll build
As our Lead AI engineer, you will:
* Architect and deploy OU’s private Azure OpenAI environment
* Build Prof. T v0.1 — our AI tutor trained on curriculum, assessments, and teaching materials
* Create retrieval and vector-based pipelines (RAG) for structured learning content
* Build internal tools for academics to upload, review, and refine materials
* Work with leadership to define our long-term AI roadmap
* Lay the foundation for adaptive learning, personalised coaching, and automated formative assessment
* Set engineering standards, model safety guidelines, and data governance frameworks
* Help scale the AI stack into a proprietary academic engine used by thousands of learners
This is a rare opportunity to shape th...