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Senior AI/ML Engineer

ALX Africa💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build the probabilistic path-recommendation engine for an AI learning platform that determines learner next steps using Bayesian Knowledge Tracing and Knowledge Space Theory from a cold start.

Role type

Senior AI/ML Engineer (probabilistic modelling)

Builds

Competency navigation algorithm and ML pipelines for an EdTech platform

Domain

EdTech / Educational AI / Knowledge Tracing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Probabilistic/Bayesian modelling, Python production pipelines, Evaluation design

Preferred skills

BKT/KST, psychometrics, MLflow, knowledge graphs

Technologies

Python, LLMs

Responsibilities

Own the competency navigation algorithm design, implementation, and update dynamics; Encode prerequisite structures and priors for cold-start performance; Build pipelines to process unstructured data into signals using LLM-as-judge; Develop behavioural and at-risk profiling models as data accumulates.

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