Khan Academy
Senior Search & AI Discoverability Engineer (12 month contract, 40 hours/week, $85/hour)
Mountain View, CA / Remote (Continental US + Hawaii + Canada Only) +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, CA / Remote (Continental US + Hawaii + Canada Only)
San Mateo - Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO experience.
About the job
Own and deliver technical improvements that help Khan Academy content get discovered, indexed, cited, and recommended by search engines and AI-powered search systems.
What you'll do
- Research and implement strategies for visibility in AI-generated responses; audit technical discoverability and turn findings into scoped engineering projects.
- Build business cases for improvements, monitor search and AI discoverability metrics, and partner with Marketing to prioritize work.
- Track how LLMs retrieve and cite web content and apply new techniques.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on technical SEO experience, including direct implementation.
- Ability to own implementation end-to-end, including reading, writing, and shipping code.
- Working knowledge of how AI-powered search and answer engines retrieve, rank, and cite content.
- Proficiency with tools such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Semrush, and Ahrefs.
Nice to have
- Go and React.
- Experience with content-heavy or edtech platforms, international SEO, or using Generative AI / LLMs to build products.
Pay
$85/hour USD (hourly rate)
Tools
Go, React, Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Semrush, Ahrefs, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity
AI focus
Optimize content for AI-generated responses and other LLM-powered discovery surfaces; understand how AI systems retrieve, rank, and cite web content.
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