Technical Curriculum Developer

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build anywhere—on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Curriculum Developer to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for creating comprehensive training materials, designing engaging exercises and hands-on activities, and developing content that supports our customers in modernizing their applications.

This is a unique role because it combines teaching and software engineering. You’ll design highly technical instructor-led training courses with hands-on exercises to help people get the most out of MongoDB technologies. You’ll also become a veritable MongoDB expert. When applying, please let us know in a few words why you’d be a good fit. Polymath developer? Technology geek? Hacker who loves to speak and write? If any of these descriptions fit, then we’d love to hear from you! Familiarity with AI technologies, LLMs, and RAG is essential.

This is a remote role with the option to work from one of our office locations if local.

What you’ll do

• Evaluate training requirements by product and user role, and turn those requirements into courses with clearly defined learning objectives and learning paths
• Leverage AI technologies, including LLMs and RAG, to enhance training content and delivery.
• Design, develop, and maintain course materials. Course materials include presentation content, student and instructor guides, demo scripts, hands-on coding exercises, quizzes and assessments
• Use feedback and survey data from students, training instructors and MongoDB field engineering teams to create new courses and improve existing courses
• Spend up to two weeks each quarter co-delivering classes alongside a MongoDB instructor to gain firsthand experience of how course content is delivered and received
• Build “train-the-trainer” materials to enable MongoDB’s training instructors around the world to deliver our training courses effectively
• Learn about new product features and teaching methods, collaborating with the MongoDB product engineering and field engineering teams to create engaging, accurate, in-depth educational material
• Develop sample applications using a variety of programming languages
• Continually look for ways to extend and improve our courses to support new products and features, and to enhance the learning experience for students and their instructors

Experience you’ll need

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent experience in a software or technology-related field
• Required experience with GenAI technologies & approaches, including developing applications using LLMs
• 2+ years experience within technical curriculum development
• Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following areas: teaching, technical content development, public speaking, technical writing
• Solid understanding of a programming language
• Knowledge of at least one other programming language is a big plus (e.g., Javascript, Java, Python)
• You are comfortable and familiar with modern software development practices and infrastructure
• Experience using one or more database technologies. Knowledge of MongoDB is a plus, but not required
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• A “can-do” attitude, and the ability to work collaboratively with all members of the curriculum development team and training delivery staff
• Ability to manage time effectively, to complete tasks on a deadline, and to effectively communicate project status and risks as timelines evolve
• You enjoy self-driven exploration and education on new technologies and languages, and can adapt innovative technologies and learn quickly in a fast-paced environment

Success Measures

Within 3 months:

• Complete new hire technical training to acquire hands-on technical knowledge of MongoDB products, their specific capabilities and use cases
• Via new hire training and shadowing, acquire a deep knowledge of MongoDB instructor-led training offerings, student personae and learning objectives
• Assist in the creation and review of new training content (slides and hands-on exercises)
  
  

Within 6 months:

• Successfully co-deliver several MongoDB training courses, demonstrating a solid understanding of the source material
• Comfortable with creating and releasing new / updated training content, given a course outline with defined learning objectives
• Contribute to the design of new and updated training offerings
  
  

Within 12 months:

• Own the end-to-end production of one or more training offerings - from curriculum design to content development to gathering stakeholder feedback
• With the broader Curriculum team, contribute to refining processes and tooling to drive increased development velocity and quality of instructor-led training content

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

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