Full-Time
Senior AI Native Engineer
Posted on 8/28/2025
Guild Education
1,001-5,000 employees
Employee education benefits platform for employers
Compensation Overview
$128.6k - $188.6k/yr
Denver, CO, USA
In Person
Must reside in one of the 32 listed states; proximity to Denver office may be required.
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- 8+ years in software development, with strength in frontend or full-stack work. Proficient in modern web technologies (e.g. React, TypeScript) and backend services (REST/GraphQL).
- Hands-on expertise integrating ML models or AI services into production applications and delivering tangible business or user value. Familiar with NLP, recommender systems, and generative AI.
- Skilled in using model APIs and applying concepts like embeddings, prompt engineering, fallback strategies, and cost optimization.
- Proven ability to design systems, libraries, or components for reuse across teams and products.
- Experience creating adaptive, context-aware interfaces that surface AI outputs naturally and effectively enhance user journeys.
- Demonstrated experience working effectively with product, design, and other stakeholder teams to ship production-ready AI features.
- Adept at articulating complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders.
- Build and ship user-facing experiences powered by capabilities like summarization, personalization, semantic search, and classification. Ensure these features deliver intuitive, real-time, and context-aware responses that enhance user decision-making and engagement.
- Create and maintain reusable components and integration patterns for embedding AI into frontends across Guild’s platform. Ensure these solutions are easy to adopt by other product teams, supporting scalability across multiple products and client implementations.
- Partner with MLOps to define reliable model interface standards and deploy internal/external APIs with performance and cost in mind. Work closely with product, UX, and external partners to align AI-driven solutions with client needs, user expectations, and business priorities.
- Integrate and monitor third-party AI services (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic), ensuring robust error handling, response accuracy, and system observability. Proactively address performance issues or model drifts to ensure features meet enterprise-grade reliability standards.
- Collaborate with design to create AI interactions that are simple, transparent, and responsive to user context. Champion responsible AI practices that prioritize user trust, privacy, and inclusivity.
- Share expertise in AI integration, prompt engineering, and model orchestration to support peer growth and onboarding of rotating team members. Contribute to a culture of learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
- Stay ahead of AI and frontend trends, identifying practical innovations in areas like semantic search and conversational interfaces. Propose and prototype ideas that push the boundaries of AI-native product experiences while balancing competing priorities across clients and teams.
- Advocate for the transformative potential of AI in education and workforce advancement.
- Take initiatives from prototyping through deployment and iteration of AI-powered features using expertise, on-going research and pro-active problem solving.
Guild Education helps companies invest in their employees’ education by offering education benefits through employer partnerships. It works with large employers to provide tuition reimbursement, access to online courses, and degree programs from accredited schools via a managed platform. Employers pay fees to administer these education programs, and Guild earns commissions from educational institutions for student enrollments. The platform streamlines how employees access funding and courses, aligning education benefits with company goals. Compared to competitors, Guild Education centers its product on turning education benefits into a strategic HR and talent development lever, combining workforce development with diversity and internal mobility, and delivering scalable programs that support retention and recruitment. Its goal is to improve talent acquisition, reduce turnover, upskill the workforce, and boost ROI and brand value for employers.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Series F
Total Funding
$643.5M
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
Founded
2015
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Guild raised $264 million in equity for expansion in 2026.
- MOD Pizza expanded tuition-free degrees to 10,000 workers via Guild.
- Regions Bank introduced tuition-free benefits to all associates through Guild.
What critics are saying
- Edtech layoffs force Guild's cash burn without new contracts in 2026.
- Coursera steals Walmart clients with lower-fee AI upskilling in 2027.
- Recession cuts Hilton's Guild contract amid 15% HR budget reductions.
What makes Guild Education unique
- Guild's platform pairs education with AI insights via Guild Talent Advantage.
- Guild manages tuition benefits for 3 million workers at Walmart and Disney.
- Guild's tech-enabled advising supports employees from discovery to completion.
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Benefits
Be an owner - Every employee is granted equity in Guild with a 4-year vesting schedule as well as a 401(k).
Prioritize your time - We offer generous parental leave, PTO, and onsite daycare for Denver-based employees
Have a learner's mindset - Guild offers student loan reimbursement, 100% tuition assistance for your first bachelor’s degree, and $10K/year toward additional education.
Take care of yourself - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans because we care about the health and well-being of all Guild employees.
Growth & Insights and Company News
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↓ -3%Guild Talent Advantage is a first-of-its-kind product suite that pairs education, skilling, and academy experiences with AI insights to empower HR leaders to address a range of urgent talent transformation priorities.
Salt Security, the API security company, is working with Guild Education, the leader in opportunity creation for America’s workforce, to implement the Salt Security API Protection Platform to secure its growing application programming interface (API) ecosystem.
INDIANAPOLIS - Ivy Tech Community College is partnering with career opportunity platform Guild to provide employers with additional options for personal and professional growth.
Learning and c areer opportunity company Guild Education welcomed Dean Carter as its new chief people officer (CPO).
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, MOD Pizza, the purpose-led, people-first brand, announced the significant expansion of its Journey Program to include a robust list of company-paid educational curriculums for its MOD Squad members. Through a new partnership with Guild, MOD’s 10,000+ Squad members in company-owned stores across the U.S. can now unlock life-changing opportunities for both personal and professional advancement. The expanded program will cover the cost of full tuition, plus all books and fees, providing Squad members the opportunity to earn a bachelor’s degree, professional certificates, or enroll in English language learning – all through Guild’s Learning Marketplace and Career Opportunity Platform. “This is an important investment for MOD, and one that can help remove the barriers to education and career mobility that exist for so many,” said Ally Svenson, MOD’s co-founder and protector of the purpose. “The MOD Journey Program is designed to support and serve the people of MOD and ensure we are providing opportunities that will positively impact their lives. There’s nothing more important to us than knowing our Squads can pursue their personal and professional dreams as part of their MOD journey!”