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(Part-time) Chief of Staff

K12 Sales Lead

CTO (Data Engineering / Full-stack)

(Intern) Drone Curriculum

(Intern) Data & AI Curriculum

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CTO (Data Engineering / Full-stack)

Applicable experience: Data Engineering, Backend or Full-stack Webdev, Business Analytics

Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident only.

What we're looking to do

Make tools that make sales easier. This involves targeting districts and creating automated campaigns based on their prior demonstrated interest.

MVP: fetch from existing APIs about school purchases, analyze that, and generating relevant email templates.

Subsequent versions: scrape additional information directly from school and architecture firms’ websites (may need NLP to extract key info). We can also display the data on a map to identify which regions of the US are most interested in what we’re doing.

Develop inventcurriculum to teach data and webdev. Develop projects where high school students build or code real-world technology products as part of their normal academic classes.

Make a webapp to deliver our curriculum and manage makerspaces.

MVP: bolt on analytics dashboards and autograding to our existing 3rd party software.

Subsequent versions: a custom webapp with user roles and telemetry to track student progress and make it easy to rapidly improve the content. Should be easily updatable and deployable requiring minimal server and infrastructure cost.

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What we’re looking for

You’re a good fit if you

love learning and explaining how frameworks and technology work

have made several “ugly duckling” projects and iterated on them and now people say “wow that’s impressive”

are looking for a CTO-kind of role where you get a chance to own several projects instead of being siloed into one tiny feature of a massive product

like to build a small feature, unit test it, and then keep expanding

want a slightly non-traditional job

care about social impact, inequity, or empowering kids with real-world skills

have been a teaching assistant or done STEM outreach

want to be surrounded by innovative people to build side projects

Ideally, you have 1-2 years industry experience or you ran a club / organization that ran production apps (e.g. college hackathon organizer, app development consulting).

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About inventXYZ

inventXYZ is a tech education startup by Penn and Carnegie Mellon grads.

We’re immersing every student grades 7-12 in AI, Virtual Reality, Web Development, Electronics, and Rapid Prototyping through innovative real-world projects in every class they take.

E.g. History: Recreate ancient civilizations in VR; English: Write a blog article using data visualizations as evidence; Algebra: Build and code an electronic music instrument; Physics: Analyze sports technique using motion capture.

You will be one of the first employees of a startup that is changing the world in a meaningful and equitable way.

We were awarded the President’s Innovation Prize by the University of Pennsylvania in 2020:

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And we’ve been helping design the Ignition Lab makerspace for Operation Breakthrough in Kansas City.

The Ignition Lab is a makerspace for inner-city kids sponsored by Travis Kelce⁠

(Super Bowl winning football player).

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Details

Ideally you have strong skills and understanding in at least one of

Data engineering

Full-stack web-development

Machine learning / natural language processing (NLP)

Web scraping

We recognize that there’s usually not a single person with all of these experiences, but we expect you to be strong in at least one of the above and be able to figure out some of the others.

We’re hoping you have familiarity with tools like

Data Engineering

Python / R

Pandas

JSON

Pytorch or similar

Spark

BERT or other NLP techniques

Named entity extraction

Fetching from 3rd party APIs

Full-stack

You have a strong design / UX sensibility and can make sites with responsive, fluid, and performant CSS.

React

Gatsby / NextJS

NodeJS

GraphQL

OAuth

AWS / Google Cloud

AWS Lambda functions / Google Cloud functions / Cloudflare workers

Postgresql / Firebase

Git

Figma

Mapbox / OpenStreetMaps / Google Maps

Integrating 3rd party APIs

Ideally, you have experience deploying projects to cloud services and designing services in a way that minimizes costs.

Even if you haven’t done all of these things, you’re quick to learn, hands-on, and know who to ask or where to look for guidance and help.

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