Academic Content Developer (AI Optimization & Foundations)
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- Remote · Mexico only
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 7 October 2026.
About the role
Jalasoft's standard text
Jala University is an innovative initiative designed to bridge the gap between academia and industry by delivering practical education tailored to industry needs, with a unique educational model integrating experts from both academia and industry.
Our goal is to transform the economies of underserved regions through the software industry, creating professional opportunities that impact individuals, communities, and regions, while leaving a lasting legacy for future generations
Requirements
- Masters Degree in Computer Science or related
- 5+ years shipping production software, including 2+ years in production AI/ML
- Able to implement optimizers from first principles (not by calling a framework's built-in optimizer) and instrument gradient flow, learning-rate schedules, and regularization diagnostics
- Working fluency in probability and information theory (likelihood, entropy, KL divergence)
- Able to personally build a course artifact to production standard, including an instrumented optimizer and analytical brief
- Hands-on with Python, NumPy, scikit-learn, PyTorch (basics through autograd/custom optimizer loops), Jupyter, Docker, one cloud VM (AWS/GCP/Azure), Weights & Biases, Modal (CPU + T4/A10), matplotlib
- Public writing samples showing technical explanation (docs, workshop material, book chapter, or open-source project known for its docs), including ability to write to publication standard
- Reproducibility discipline (pinned dependencies, containers, seeded runs, documented decoding parameters)
- Professional written English
Benefits
- Remote work modality (home office).
- Joining a dynamic and growing organization with international reach.
What this role asks for
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
Common in software engineering postings at any company.
69% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Jalasoft's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Jalasoft's other open postings on this site.
The team: Jala University Professor
This role is one of 8 open in Jala University Professor. 4 were posted in the last 30 days.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Golang (4 of 8), JavaScript (4 of 8), Node.js (4 of 8), TypeScript (4 of 8), Docker (2 of 8), Hugging Face (2 of 8), OpenAPI (2 of 8)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Academic Content Developer - FinTech Systems & Payments Engineering posted Oct 1
- Academic Content Developer - AI & Fraud Detection in Financial Systems (FinTech) posted Oct 1
- Academic Content Developer - Financial Data Engineering & Credit Systems posted Oct 1
- Academic Content Developer - FinTech Product Engineering & Capstone posted Oct 1
- Academic Content Developer - LLM Fine-Tuning and Alignment Engineer posted Sep 16
- Academic Content Developer - ML Platform and Inference Engineer posted Sep 11
- Academic Content Developer - AI Governance and Compliance Specialist posted Sep 11
From the team and dates on Jalasoft's own job board.
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