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Khan Academy - Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer (12 month contract, 40 hours/week, $85/hour)

Remote - Mountain View, CA / Remote (Continental US + Hawaii + Canada Only)$177k - $177k3d ago

Remote Senior NA Artificial Intelligence EdTech AI Engineer SEO React Go Google Analytics ChatGPT

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO experience, including direct implementation (not just recommendations) • Ability to own implementation end-to-end — reading, writing, and shipping code (Go and React preferred) to deliver SEO/GEO/AEO/AIO improvements • Proven ability to work independently while partnering with engineers, cross-functional teams, and leaders to scope, drive, and deliver SEO initiatives • Working knowledge of how AI-powered search and answer engines retrieve, rank, and cite content (GEO/AEO/AIO fundamentals) • Proficiency with tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Semrush, and Ahrefs • Experience with creating actionable insights using a variety of analytics tools including Google Analytics. • Proven cross-cultural competency skills demonstrating self-awareness, awareness of other, and the ability to adopt inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors to drive inclusion and belonging throughout the organization. • Motivated by the Khan Academy mission “to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere." • Experience at a content-heavy or edtech platform with high page counts and structured content types • Experience with international SEO • Experience using Generative AI / LLMs to build products • COMPENSATIONAt Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. The hourly rate for this role is $85/hour USD. Overtime is not anticipated and must be approved by the team in advance.

Responsibilities

• Research and implement GEO/AEO/AIO strategies — optimizing KA's content, metadata, and page structure to appear in AI-generated responses across Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and other LLM-powered surfaces • Conduct regular technical audits and translate findings into clearly scoped engineering projects with measurable impact • Build and execute on compelling business cases for product enhancements by combining knowledge of our audiences — learners, teachers, and district administrators — with deep understanding of how search and AI discovery work • Instrument and monitor discoverability metrics across traditional search (GSC, organic traffic) and emerging AI surfaces • Partner cross-functionally with Marketing teams to prioritize and sequence discoverability improvements • Stay current with how LLMs retrieve and cite web content, and bring new techniques back to the team

Benefits

• At Khan Academy we are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices, the well-being of our employees, and our Khan community. The hourly rate for this role is $85/hour USD. Overtime is not anticipated and must be approved by the team in advance.