Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer (12 month contract, 40 hours/week, $85/hour)
Khan Academy17 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Research and implement GEO, AEO, and AIO strategies for Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and other LLM-powered surfaces.
- Conduct technical audits and turn findings into scoped engineering projects with measurable impact.
- Read, write, and ship code to deliver SEO and AI-discoverability improvements.
- Build business cases for product enhancements using audience knowledge and search and AI-discovery expertise.
- Instrument and monitor discoverability metrics across Google Search Console, organic traffic, and emerging AI surfaces.
- Partner with Marketing, engineering, product teams, and leaders to prioritize and sequence initiatives.
- Stay current on how LLMs retrieve and cite web content and share new techniques with the team.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO experience, including direct implementation rather than recommendations alone.
- Ability to own implementation end to end and ship code; Go and React are preferred.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with engineers and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver SEO initiatives.
- Working knowledge of how AI-powered search and answer engines retrieve, rank, and cite content.
- Proficiency with Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Semrush, and Ahrefs.
- Experience creating actionable insights with analytics tools, including Google Analytics.
- Demonstrated cross-cultural competency and ability to support inclusive perspectives, attitudes, and behaviors.
- Motivation to support Khan Academy’s mission.
- Preferred experience with content-heavy or edtech platforms, international SEO, and using generative AI or LLMs to build products.
Benefits
- 12-month full-time contract at 40 hours per week.
- Benefits eligible.
- Hourly compensation is $85/hour USD; overtime is not anticipated and requires advance approval.
- Equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodations are provided.
About Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan to provide "a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere".