Oxcaml Educator

Jane Street · Quant · New York, NY · Software Engineering

Jane Street is seeking an experienced educator to develop and deliver courses for their internal educational programs, focusing on teaching engineers how to effectively use OxCaml, a performance-engineered branch of OCaml. The role involves creating materials, expanding existing bootcamps, developing tutorials for advanced features, and mentoring other teachers, while also contributing to the development of OxCaml itself through coding.

What you'd actually do

  1. develop materials and deliver courses to teach engineers at Jane Street how to use OxCaml effectively
  2. expanding our OCaml Bootcamp for new hires to use OxCaml
  3. developing specific tutorials to level-up experienced developers that need OxCaml's most advanced features
  4. work hand-in-hand with a language's designers and implementers to develop its educational component
  5. helping other people involved in teaching grow their skills

Skills

Required

  • teaching
  • curriculum development
  • writing
  • presenting
  • coding
  • mentoring

Nice to have

  • experience teaching CS topics in a university setting
  • experience teaching technical topics in industrial settings

What the JD emphasized

  • skilled educator
  • skilled, effective, and experienced teacher
  • effective writer and presenter
  • writing code
  • mentoring other budding teachers
  • teaching CS topics in a university setting
  • teaching technical topics in industrial settings
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About the Position

Jane Street is hard at work building OxCaml, a branch of OCaml with a variety of extensions to support performance engineering. But designing and implementing the language is only half the battle: we need our developers to understand its nuances and program in OxCaml as experts. That's where you come in.

We’re looking for an experienced, skilled educator to help us develop materials and deliver courses to teach engineers at Jane Street how to use OxCaml effectively. You would work broadly across our internal educational programs, from expanding our OCaml Bootcamp for new hires to use OxCaml to developing specific tutorials to level-up experienced developers that need OxCaml's most advanced features.

This is a unique opportunity to work hand-in-hand with a language's designers and implementers to develop its educational component. You would be part of the team within Jane Street building the next generation of OxCaml.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • We want someone who is a skilled, effective, and experienced teacher. Part of that means being an effective writer and presenter.
  • The job demands an understanding of our technology stack, and the best way to build that understanding is by doing. That means we want someone who is good at writing code, and is excited to spend a significant fraction of their time doing so.
  • Part of the job is going to be directly teaching and developing curricula. But an equally important part is helping other people involved in teaching grow their skills, so we want someone who is good at mentoring other budding teachers.

We’re excited to talk to people who have experience teaching CS topics in a university setting, as well as people who have spent time teaching technical topics in industrial settings.