Khan Academy — Mountain View, CA (we also love interns, and remote is a possibility)
We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Here's a testimonial we received last wweek:
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I just want to thank you soooo very much in high school it was very hard for me and I hated studying also even thou my mother told me it would help me I never listened and now I am in college and this website helps me so much with algebra/health and so much more when I start working again I want to give back to you for helping me out in college and becoming a Doctor because you can never say never :)
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Every month we get hundreds of letters like this from people in all walks of life who are thankful for our free, high-quality educational content. Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, partnerships with organizations like MoMA and the California Academy of Sciences, and a huge library of interactive exercises. Over 20 million math problems are done every week on our site.
You'll be part of a small team working alongside both "celebrity" devs (like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee Craig Silverstein) and many more who you haven't heard of but who are also really awesome.
We're especially looking for new product designers (of all types) but we also have many engineering positions open as well as some positions for a teacher and contract question writers.
Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers and mention that you're coming from HN. Feel free to email me at alpert+HN@khanacademy.org if you have questions about applying or about KA in general. Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas right now unless you're from Canada, Australia, or Mexico.
Don't take me wrong, I really appreciate Khan and I've learned quite a bit from his videos, but I am not seeing the technical challenges in running the website. My opinion is the challenge with Khan's academy is not a technical one, but how to scale the teachers/presenters. Khan is a great teacher, very knowledgable and engaging, but how do you find people like him to take over the other subjects.
– The next version of our personalized learning dashboard [1] to make the UI more consistent across subjects and to help people learn better
– Improved knowledge models so we can better know what you know and don't know [2]
– Better tools for our content creators to allow them to make thousands of engaging, interactive exercise problems without knowing how to code [3]
– A major revision to our iOS app to let students practice skills on the go (or in a classroom with iPads!)
– Infrastructure improvements to make the site more reliable and faster for our millions of visitors every month [4]
There's a ton more that we want to do but haven't had a chance to even think about yet. Not all of our work is technically interesting, but a lot of it is, and it's easy to find technical challenges if that's what you're looking for.
(As for new content, we're working on partnerships with other organizations [5][6] and have many new content creators in other subjects [7]. We're obviously working hard to find ways to make more great content.)
Another example of something technically cool that we built recently is tinyquery, a pure-Python reimplementation of Google BigQuery suitable for very small data sets, which we're using for (fast) integration testing when building pipelines on top of the BigQuery API:
We're a small, non-profit tech startup bringing a free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere.
Here's a testimonial we received last wweek:
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I just want to thank you soooo very much in high school it was very hard for me and I hated studying also even thou my mother told me it would help me I never listened and now I am in college and this website helps me so much with algebra/health and so much more when I start working again I want to give back to you for helping me out in college and becoming a Doctor because you can never say never :)
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Every month we get hundreds of letters like this from people in all walks of life who are thankful for our free, high-quality educational content. Most of you reading this are familiar with Sal's videos, but we also have hundreds of videos by other teachers, partnerships with organizations like MoMA and the California Academy of Sciences, and a huge library of interactive exercises. Over 20 million math problems are done every week on our site.
You'll be part of a small team working alongside both "celebrity" devs (like jQuery creator John Resig and Google's first employee Craig Silverstein) and many more who you haven't heard of but who are also really awesome.
We're especially looking for new product designers (of all types) but we also have many engineering positions open as well as some positions for a teacher and contract question writers.
Apply at https://www.khanacademy.org/careers and mention that you're coming from HN. Feel free to email me at alpert+HN@khanacademy.org if you have questions about applying or about KA in general. Unfortunately we can't sponsor visas right now unless you're from Canada, Australia, or Mexico.