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title: 'Faculty Lead & Learning Engineer - Sciences at Outsmart'
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# Faculty Lead & Learning Engineer - Sciences at Outsmart

- **Company:** Outsmart
- **Location:** Lehi, UT
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-03-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/outsmart/726cf08f-ba56-4f03-97aa-0d493d87c30b

## Job description

Outsmart is a mission-driven, early-stage startup reimagining higher education for the age of AI by creating an entirely new collegiate experience that expands access and opportunity. Backed by $38M from top venture firms including Khosla Ventures, Forerunner, DST Global Partners, and Lightspeed, the company is led by former Duolingo executives and a founding team that also includes Emmy Award winners. With a strong culture centered around high-impact, detail-oriented team members, Outsmart is already seeing significant traction, generating 1–5 million weekly organic views on social media.

## About the role

The Faculty Lead & Learning Engineer - Sciences is Outsmart’s designated faculty member for undergraduate science–owning course design, development, and quality–across biology, chemistry, physics, geology, etc. (intro through advanced topics). You’ll craft an engaging, rigorous, and fun science learning experience for students while setting the standard for science teaching in the AI era.

You’ll bring the depth of an academic and the instincts of a builder. That means leveraging AI and modern tooling to design high-quality curriculum, virtual labs, and assessments at scale — and collaborating closely with learning designers, product, and engineering to bring it to fruition.

Location: Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, or Lehi, UT

Reporting: Works in close partnership with the Head of Academics & Learning Engineering and university academic leadership.

Qualities We're Seeking

- Deep disciplinary expertise in one or more core sciences; comfortable stewarding courses across the broader science portfolio
- Mastery of pedagogy, learning design, and assessment — and enthusiasm for AI-enabled teaching and learning
- Builder mindset: resourceful, high energy, accountable, mission driven, student-obsessed; thrives in early-stage environments
- Clear, direct communicator who collaborates well with designers, engineers, and product

## What you'll do

- Own the science curriculum: Design and develop courses across biology, chemistry, physics, and geology (intro → advanced) with clear learning outcomes and mastery-based progress
- Design assessments (formative & summative)
- Leverage AI & tooling to create interactive content (e.g., a virtual science lab) that improves engagement and efficacy
- Collaborate with Learning Design, Product, and Engineering to ship high-quality, technology-enabled science experiences (simulations, visualizations, notebooks)
- Support accreditation & quality: Align syllabi, policies, credit hours, and outcomes with institutional standards; contribute evidence for reviews and continuous improvement

## Qualifications

- Degree in a core science field (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geology) or Science Education; PhD or EdD preferred
- 3+ years teaching or leading curriculum in undergraduate science (online or hybrid experience a plus)
- Proven fluency with education technology and AI
- Track record of cross-functional collaboration with designers/engineers and shipping learner-centric features

## Perks

- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
- Healthcare for you and your dependents (medical, dental, and vision)
- Parental leave for any full-time employee (birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents)
- 15 PTO days per year, a winter break, and 12+ paid company holidays per year
- Remote work days
- Lunch provided in-office daily
- Working with super talented people who want to make a difference in the world

Outsmart is committed to building an equitable and inclusive workplace and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

## About Outsmart

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Outsmart is building the university of the future by reimagining higher education for the AI era, making it more affordable, accessible, and personalized.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage, raised $26M+ in total)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA with additional offices in New York, New York and Lehi, Utah
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Jorge Mazal (CEO), Daniel Falabella (CPO), Gina Gotthilf (CMO)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Education Technology (EdTech) / Higher Education
- **Target Customers**: B2C – students and lifelong learners seeking an alternative to traditional, debt-heavy college education
- **Mission / Purpose**: To dramatically increase access to higher education in a way that is unprecedented and can change the world. The founders aim to make college-level education a basic, universal human right.

## Products & Services
- **Outsmart Platform (In Development)**: A mobile-first, AI-powered learning experience that aims to replace or supplement traditional college. Details are still under wraps (stealth mode), but it involves content generation at scale, gamification, benchmarking, multi-modal behavior classification, and psychometrically valid assessments. The offering is expected to be a more affordable, personalized, and engaging alternative to lectures and student debt.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$26M+** (Seed rounds in 2024 and 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures (lead), DST Global (lead), Forerunner (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Latitud, Abstract Ventures, Reach Capital, Karman Ventures, 20VC, and angel investors including Lenny Rachitsky (ex-Airbnb).
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **+190% YoY** to 23 employees (as of mid-2025); has 21+ active job postings; monthly web traffic growing.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Founding Team Moat**: Led by three former Duolingo executives (CPO, CMO, and CEO) who were instrumental in scaling that platform to hundreds of millions of users. They bring deep expertise in gamification, growth, and product-led learning.
- **Strong Financial Backing**: $26M+ raised from top-tier venture capital firms in a short period, signaling high confidence in the team and vision.
- **AI-Native DNA**: The product is being built from the ground up for the age of AI, focusing on personalized, adaptive learning at scale.
- **Mission-Driven Focus**: Targeting the massive, broken $1.6 trillion US student loan market with a clear, compelling value proposition: high-quality, affordable higher education.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product Development**: Building and launching the core AI-powered learning platform and mobile apps (iOS/Android).
- **Hiring**: Aggressively scaling the team, particularly in Engineering (Senior Applied AI, Senior Mobile, Full-stack), Product (Principal PM), Learning Design (Senior Learning Designers, Faculty Leads), and Academics (Head of Academics, Lead Assessment Developers).
- **Content & Curriculum**: Developing high-quality, science-based learning content and valid assessment systems to ensure academic credibility.
- **Market Entry**: Moving from stealth mode to a public launch, targeting students frustrated with the cost and format of traditional higher education.

## Why Work Here
- **High-Caliber Team**: Join a tight-knit, ambitious team of former Duolingo, Amazon, Meta, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and Spotify engineers, product managers, and designers.
- **Big Mission**: The opportunity to work on a world-changing problem—reimagining higher education and solving the student debt crisis.
- **Ownership & Impact**: Early-stage company where employees are given real ownership over key features and products (0→1).
- **Culture**: Described as having "big mission energy," "AI in our DNA," and a "ship, a lot" mentality. Focus on craft and solving complex problems.
- **Work Policy**: On-site / office-first. Employees work from physical offices in San Francisco, New York, or Lehi, Utah.
- **Benefits**: Great benefits and perks, though specific details are not publicly listed. The company values real ownership and the chance to create something that truly matters.
- **Tech Stack**: Python, React, React Native, Swift, UIKit, GraphQL, Rive, Unity, and various ML/MLOps tools.

## Sources
1. [joinoutsmart.com (Company Website)](https://joinoutsmart.com/)
2. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://www.linkedin.com/company/outsmart-college)
3. [TechCrunch - Ex-Duolingo execs raise $13M](https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/18/ex-duolingo-execs-raise-13m-to-launch-startup-democratize-access-to-college-education/)
4. [Built In - Outsmart Careers](https://builtin.com/company/outsmart)
5. [Abstract Ventures - Jobs at Outsmart](https://jobs.abstractvc.com/jobs/outsmart)

## Other roles at Outsmart

- [Principal Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/principal-product-designer-outsmart-lehi-49dqsw1p937v) — Lehi, UT
- [Senior Learning Designer, Science](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-learning-designer-science-outsmart-lehi-tq3er826bfht) — Lehi, UT
- [Lead Assessment Developer](https://feeny.ai/job/lead-assessment-developer-outsmart-lehi-ag8ppkzt25k6) — Lehi, UT
- [Senior Applied AI Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-applied-ai-engineer-outsmart-lehi-tcw7kp2baj6p) — Lehi, UT
- [Head of Academics and Learning Engineering](https://feeny.ai/job/head-of-academics-and-learning-engineering-outsmart-lehi-q277v3x41z9b) — Lehi, UT