AI Engineer

About Lalilo

Lalilo is an EdTech company building a web application that helps differentiate reading instruction in elementary schools. Our vision is to support teachers by combining pedagogy, design, and artificial intelligence in an engaging learning platform. We believe teachers have one of the most difficult and impactful jobs in society, and we want to help them in their mission of guiding every student. We also believe that every child deserves a fair chance to succeed, and that starts with learning to read.

Our pedagogical assistant is used by 50,000 teachers and 500,000 students worldwide.

About the Role

You’ll join the Data & AI team as an AI Engineer to help us design, ship, and operate the ML and AI systems that power our products. You will work end-to-end: from data and modelling to deployment, monitoring, and iteration in production.

What We're Looking For

Master’s/Engineering degree in Data Science, Machine Learning, or equivalent. 2+ years building and shipping AI-powered products, including ML model development, deployment, and integration. Strong data science fundamentals: able to train, evaluate, and reason about ML models, including LLM-based systems. Solid MLEng and MLOps skills (CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, containerization, monitoring). Pragmatic, ship-focused mindset: you prioritise reliable systems over research output. Genuine enthusiasm for product, applied AI, and emerging technologies. Motivated by EdTech's potential to impact students and teachers. Comfortable navigating in an international team and discussing technical concepts with strong English and French communication skills. Based in Paris or ability to come to the office at least 2 days a week.

Bonus

• Experience with speech recognition or audio ML.
• Experience with genAI-based applications (RAG, Agentic AI, LLM evaluation frameworks). We encourage you to explore dspy.

What We Offer

• A kind, humble, and collaborative environment where everyone contributes hands‑on, learns from one another, and grows through impact.
• 25 days of paid vacation plus 10 RTT days and extra days off if needed.
• Health insurance with Swisslife via Benefiz (base plan 100% covered by Lalilo).
• 75% of your Pass Navigo covered.
• Meal vouchers and complementary health insurance covered.
• Hybrid and flexible work setup.
• Join the Lali-tivities! (famous pastry of the week, afterworks, sports in the morning, team retreats once a year, and much more!).

We offer competitive compensation that matches your experience and skills, and we ensure it's fair and equitable for similar profiles on the team.

The salary range for this position is €55K to €70K annually.

At Lalilo, salaries are transparent and publicly shared within the company. After your first year, you'll be eligible for a performance-based variable bonus, determined by your individual role level as well as Lalilo's and Renaissance's overall results.

Equal Opportunity

We have an ongoing commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and have taken strides to become a more welcoming and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from all underrepresented groups.

If you have a disability and would prefer to apply in a different format or would like us to make reasonable adjustments to enable you to apply or attend any interview, please contact us and we will talk this through with you.

All your information will be kept confidential according to GDPR guidelines. Please note that we can only consider applicants who already hold a full work permit.

This role is subject to DBS and background checks.