Fast Facts

Join Panorama Education as a Solara Engineering Fellow, an entry-level position designed for early-career engineers to contribute to AI innovations in K-12 education while gaining valuable experience.

Responsibilities: Design and prototype AI features for Solara, develop user-facing tools, and ensure systems are ethical and transparent while collaborating on code and presenting projects.

Skills: Proficiency in programming (preferably Ruby), experience with frameworks like React or Node.js, and basic AI knowledge are required.

Qualifications: Ideal candidates have 0-2 years of software development experience, with a collaborative mindset and eagerness to learn.

Location: This position is remote within the United States, requiring no travel.

Compensation: $40 - $40 / Hourly

Why Join Panorama?

Panorama Education is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive company because we serve students, educators, and families from tremendously diverse backgrounds and identities across the country. We’ve seen how our product and impact are strengthened the more we reflect that diversity. We believe diverse teams are higher-performing, and we embrace the varied perspectives that our team members share with each other.

The Solara Engineering Fellowship is your opportunity to learn, contribute, and grow in a supportive environment—while shaping the future of AI in education. Fellows who excel may be offered full-time positions, but continuation beyond the program is not guaranteed.

About the Role

As a Solara Engineering Fellow, you’ll join Panorama’s dynamic Technology Team through a 10-week immersive fellowship program. This program is designed to give early-career engineers the chance to contribute directly to Solara — Panorama’s next market-defining product, focused on transforming how educators use AI to support students., 

Solara has already seen rapid early success, and to accelerate this momentum we’ve launched the AI Incubator: a focused internal team building AI-first solutions for K–12 education with speed, creativity, and rigor. Fellows will be embedded in this environment, working closely with mentors, teammates, and experienced engineers in a space that values autonomy, fast decision-making, and bold experimentation.

During the fellowship, you’ll be embedded on real projects—learning Panorama’s engineering practices, experimenting with AI tools, and delivering features that make a difference. You’ll also gain experience in building AI systems that are transparent and fair, with safeguards to evaluate for bias and discrimination, aligning with Panorama’s commitment to ethical and responsible technology. 

At the end of the program, fellows will be evaluated for potential full-time opportunities on the Solara team. While full-time employment is not guaranteed, strong performers may be offered a role after successful completion of the fellowship.

The Panorama Technology team has strong technical skills and we value learning and challenging ourselves. From guest talks, internal demos, and knowledge-sharing spaces, to hackathons and open-source projects, we push ourselves to grow as we help schools across the U.S. do the same.

Responsibilities

Work on fascinating and challenging engineering projects, like:

• Designing and prototyping Solara features that integrate cutting-edge AI models into Panorama’s platform.
• Building user-facing tools that make Solara’s insights accessible and actionable for educators.
• Developing systems to monitor, evaluate, and improve the performance of AI-driven features.
• Contribute to Panorama’s commitment to responsible AI by helping ensure systems are transparent, fair, and evaluated for bias and discrimination.
• Writing clean, maintainable code and collaborating on code reviews.
• Presenting project work to peers and stakeholders at weekly demos and during a capstone showcase.

As a Fellow, you’ll:

•  Drive features from design to deployment, with support and feedback from experienced engineers.
• Learn Panorama’s technical stack and development best practices.
• Collaborate closely with mentors and teammates, while building confidence as an independent contributor.
• Gain exposure to AI development practices, ethical considerations, and product impact.

Our Ideal Candidate Has

• 0–2 years of professional software development experience (internships, school projects, or bootcamp experience count!).
• Deep knowledge of at least one programming language, ideally Ruby. 
• Experience with frameworks like React, Vue.js, or Node.js.
• Interest in working in a fast-paced, high-energy, and highly collaborative environment where we move quickly and learn continuously.
• Basic understanding of AI technologies and prompting techniques with an enthusiasm for applying them in real-world products.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• A track record of being collaborative, accountable, and eager to learn.

Bonus Points

• Coursework, internship, or personal project experience in AI/ML.
• Hands-on experience with AI-powered code editors
• Familiarity with databases (Postgres, MySQL) or cloud environments (AWS, GCP).
• Experience practicing Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writing automated tests to ensure code quality and reliability
• Experience developing agentic workflows or working with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems to improve AI reliability and grounding
• Interest in data privacy, ethics, and security in AI systems.

Salary: $40/hr