At McGraw Hill, the AI Platform team is building intelligent learning experiences used by millions of students and educators worldwide. We're looking for a Software Engineer II — AI to join our team, focusing on building services and APIs that use AI to power student and teacher experiences.

Company: McGraw Hill

Role: Software Engineer II - AI

Location: Remote, United States

Experience:

2-5 years of professional software development experience
Experience building APIs and working with relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, or similar)

Key Skills:

Python
FastAPI
async/await
Pydantic
PostgreSQL
Go
LLM orchestration
RAG pipelines
retrieval and routing layers

Role Focus:

Build services that deliver AI to users
Integrate with model providers (Azure OpenAI and others)
Ship code that's tested, readable, and considerate of the people who'll maintain it
Participate in code reviews
Collaborate broadly with data scientists, product managers, designers, and other engineers

Nice to have:

Production experience with AWS or Azure
Familiarity with frontend work (React or Angular)
Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or RAG architectures
Exposure to Go
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform, or modern CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
Background in edtech, accessibility (WCAG 2.2 AA), or content-rich product domains
Open-source contributions, technical writing, or teaching of any kind

Other:

The pay range for this position is between $93,950 - $135,000 annually
Annual bonus plan may be provided
Full range of medical and/or other benefits
Opportunity for horizontal and vertical movement and growth throughout the organization

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