Engineer in Residence: Research Coach

AI Fund is focused on enhancing students' research capabilities through AI. The Engineer in Residence will develop an AI research coach that guides high school students through the research process, ensuring they become stronger thinkers rather than just proficient in using AI.

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