MintyBrain’s mission is to put an intelligent learning companion in the hands of every child and solve Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem.

For millennia, receiving one-on-one instruction from society’s greatest teachers has been out of reach for all but a privileged few students.

Now, for the first time in history, we have the technology to change that.

MintyBrain is building a digital tutor that will inspire children to love learning as they excel at it, made possible by the combination of AI and advanced game development.

The first step towards this mission is a product that will bring 5-11 year olds from zero knowledge to mastery of math concepts with no adult intervention.

This work has the potential to boost human intelligence more than anything else in history – and you have the potential to shape it.

In this role you will design and implement core app features, build new mathematics visualizations and AI-guided educational activities, and enhance our custom Unity editor tools to increase the team's output.

MintyBrain's digital tutor inspires kids to love learning while they achieve skill mastery in three phases:
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1.) Conceptual Understanding
Our AI tutor teaches new concepts through visual, interactive, and highly entertaining lessons.
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2.) Skill Building
Kids apply the concepts they've learned to solve puzzles and math problems in an untimed and guided setting.

3.) Fluency
They practice and master their skills by competing to earn in-game rewards and high-scores in challenge mode.

Until now MintyBrain's app and core technology have been a solo-development effort by its founder, Dan Zakon. Now it's time to assemble a team of talented and creative Unity engineers to achieve MintyBrain's ambitious plans for the future.

MintyBrain is an early stage startup backed by $1 million+ in seed funding, now hiring founding team members to join Dan in building world-changing educational software.

• Competitive salary ($100-120k as a flexible target)
• Significant equity for founding team members (1-2% as a flexible target)
• Fully remote work
• Health insurance
• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick days
• Meaningful and challenging work

• Work directly alongside Dan to build our educational gaming platform across its full product lifecycle.
• Design, build, and test new educational visualizations, games, and lessons.
• Architect and maintain our core infrastructure, including backend systems, automation processes, and custom tools to enhance productivity.
• Help the product reach critical business KPIs through incremental improvements and A/B testing.
• Shape the product with your ideas on all aspects of its design.

• 5+ years of experience working in the Unity game engine.
• Elite C# programming ability (fluency with paradigms like reflection, generics, polymorphism, etc.).
• Willingness and excitement about using AI tools to enhance your coding, especially Cursor.
• Ability to understand, debug, and refactor complex systems.
• Ability to design intuitive, aesthetically pleasing, and engaging educational visualizations and novel game mechanics.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, dynamic startup environment and be productive in a remote work setting.
• Ability to communicate with clarity, candor, and kindness.

• Artistic ability
• Experience building mobile or puzzle games
• Experience building Unity editor tools, especially with Odin Inspector
• Experience with backend systems like Firebase
• Experience with async programming and UniTask
• Experience with Unity DevOps and CI/CD
• Interest in working with AI to improve the product and development process