AI Fund is focused on building innovative AI solutions for education. The Engineer in Residence: Research Coach will develop an AI research coaching tool aimed at enhancing high school students' research skills through guided coaching, ensuring they become stronger thinkers rather than relying solely on AI assistance.

Responsibilities:

Own the user journey from early research question to draft refinement and evidence review
Design guardrails that enforce coaching behavior instead of drifting into ghostwriting
Build multi-step agentic workflows with strong traceability, citation grounding, and failure handling
Talk to students, parents, or educators to learn where the process helps versus harms
Work with AI Fund's build team on product positioning, pedagogy, and technical tradeoffs

Engineer in Residence: Research Coach

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