Senior Software Engineering Educator - AI Enablement

Mercury
Full-time Canada, Canada Other-General
Posted:
February 24, 2026
Location:
Canada, Canada, Canada

Job Description

Teaching hospitals operate on a model that's remained largely unchanged for over a century: residents learn medicine not through lectures alone, but through supervised practice alongside attending physicians who've seen thousands of cases. The attending physician doesn't just demonstrate technique — they narrate their clinical reasoning, point out subtle patterns the resident would miss, and know when to let the resident struggle versus when to intervene. This model works because medicine recognized early that expertise requires both knowledge transfer and judgment development, and judgment only develops through guided repetition.

Software engineering is facing a version of this same challenge. AI coding tools can now produce working code faster than most engineers can type it — but a growing body of research suggests that speed comes at a cost. Engineers who lean heavily on AI during skill formation score significantly lower on debugging and conceptual mastery. The gap i...

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Job Overview

Job Type: Full-time
Location: Canada, Canada
Posted: February 24, 2026
Deadline: April 05, 2026