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Goblins Founding Engineer Application

We’re hiring a founding engineer at Goblins — join us in inspiring 1B kids to love to learn.

The Problem We Solve

In education, we have always traded off scale and quality. In a 30-student math class, half of kids are ready to accelerate, while half are still working on their foundational skills, but teachers cannot be in 30 places at once, giving each student one-on-one support.

Until now. Imagine 30 teachers in every classroom — that's how Goblins feels. It lets students draw math on any device, and it figures out the "why" behind their confusion, giving them instant feedback and building their conceptual foundation. (Preview here!)

Our Traction

Goblins launched to a private beta in March with 15 schools and 300 students. Since then we've built a waitlist of 2,300 teachers, and we now have paid school and district customers across the US and Mexico. We’ve also raised from angels and received a large grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

We are in the unique position of having a product that is both highly differentiated and demanded. Anyone who joins now will be getting well-priced equity on a rocketship. By the end of this schoolyear, this company will be much larger.

The Team

Co-founder Sawyer is the former Head of Design at X1 (acq. by Robinhood) and a former math teacher, and Alp is an AI engineer from Amazon and Stripe. You will also be joining one other engineer and a sales representative.

The Role

At Goblins, you’ll take on big, open-ended engineering problems to ensure students and teachers both have a mind-blowing experience next year. Some of these are…

✅ Building a knowledge graph representing mastery of a math subject, and updating it based on student performance

✅ Building a version of the app that watches student work on real paper from a camera

✅ Expanding our “tangent” feature, which acts more of a primary instructor, and uses the LLM to compose visual modules on-demand for the student when they're struggling

If you’re looking to profoundly change the course others’ lives, play a pivotal role early in a company’s life, and get your hands dirty with LLMs, then we should definitely chat.

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