About Quizlet:
At Quizlet, our mission is to help every learner achieve their outcomes in the most effective and delightful way. Our $1B+ learning platform serves tens of millions of students every month, including two-thirds of U.S. high schoolers and half of U.S. college students, powering over 2 billion learning interactions monthly.
We blend cognitive science with machine learning to personalize and enhance the learning experience for students, professionals, and lifelong learners alike. We’re energized by the potential to power more learners through multiple approaches and various tools.
Let’s Build the Future of Learning
Join us to design and deliver AI-powered learning tools that scale across the world and unlock human potential.
About the Team (Applied AI):
Our mission is to invent and deploy the next generation of intelligent, personalized, and adaptive learning experiences. We’re consolidating AI efforts across the company into a unified portfolio and are accountable for a disproportionate share of Quizlet’s growth and product differentiation. You’ll partner closely with Product, Data Science, and the AI & Data Platform to deliver an AI‑driven learning coach that’s recognized as best‑in‑class.
About the Role:
As an Applied AI Engineer, you will be working at the forefront of our AI strategy, shaping Quizlet’s AI develop in one of the two complementary domains:
Personalization & Ranking – retrieval and ranking systems that match learners with the right content, experiences, and monetization moments across surfaces (search, feed, notifications, ads).
Generative AI & Agentic Systems – LLM‑powered tutoring, content understanding/synthesis, and tools that boost learner outcomes and creator productivity.
You will work on a variety of models and modeling systems (from Two‑Tower retrieval and multi‑task rankers to RAG/LLM pipelines), ensure robust evaluation and responsible deployment
We’re happy to share that this is an onsite position in our San Francisco office. To help foster team collaboration, we require that employees be in the office a minimum of three days per week: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday and as needed by your manager or the company. We believe that this working environment facilitates increased work efficiency, team partnership, and supports growth as an employee and organization.