# Visiting Engineer: Research Coach

**Company:** [AI Fund](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ai-fund)
**Location:** Mountain View, CA
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $10k – $10k/yr
**Skills:** Full-Stack Engineering, Generative AI, Agentic Workflows, Retrieval Augmented Generation, Citation Grounding, LangGraph, Claude Agent Sdk, Agent Orchestration, Evaluations, Code Sandboxes
**Posted:** 2026-03-30

> Build an AI research coach for high school students featuring guided workflows, citation verification, authorship logs, and sandboxed experimentation. Requires full-stack engineering with GenAI systems, agent orchestration, and product judgment for educational integrity.

## Job Description

## 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.

## What you'll build
- A guided workflow for question refinement, source review, note-taking, drafting support, and rubric-aware feedback.
- Citation verification grounded in real scholarly sources rather than generic model claims.
- A transparent authorship log that distinguishes student-written work from AI scaffolding or suggestions.
- Optional sandboxed experimentation or code execution where computational work is part of the research process.

## Requirements
- Strong full-stack engineering ability and real hands-on experience shipping multi-step GenAI systems.
- Experience with citation grounding, retrieval, agent orchestration, evals, or developer-tool style workflows.
- Product judgment around trust, educational integrity, and how much help a student should receive.
- A bias toward clear UX for complex workflows rather than impressive but brittle demos.
- You know how to use AI coding assistants and modern AI tools to increase speed without surrendering product judgment.
- US work authorization.

## Nice-to-haves
- Edtech experience or a personal connection to research education.
- Experience building code sandboxes, notebook-style tools, or pedagogy-heavy products.
- Experience with **LangGraph**, **Claude Agent SDK**, or similar workflow tooling.

## Compensation
- $10,000/month for 12 weeks ($30,000 total).
- This is a contract role during the residency. If the build leads to a funded company, the next step is a founder-level role with meaningful equity upside.

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