AI Instructor – AI APIs

What the work is for

YPAI Learn runs live coding classes on putting model APIs to work in software. Your classes take developers from a single request in a script to a backend service that streams replies, validates JSON against a schema and survives rate limits, and teach them to check token use, latency and error rates in their own logs.

The work

• Teach the live class “Get validated JSON from a model API with structured output and tool calls”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Teach the live class “Stream, retry and track the cost of model API calls in a backend service”, 90 minutes, from the class kit.
• Show live how a JSON schema and a tool definition shape the response, how to validate it in code, and what to do when the output is cut off at the token limit.
• Walk learners through streaming tokens to a client, measuring time to first token, logging token counts per request and estimating what each feature costs to run.
• Help learners hit by 429 responses, timeouts or server errors, by adding retries with backoff and jitter, honoring retry-after headers and keeping keys out of client code.

What to expect

• English is the class language, and learners from around the world attend live online. If you can teach in more languages, the application asks you to list them.
• Each class comes with a kit of slides, speaker notes, a minute-by-minute plan, a demo service that calls a model API, and a backup recording of the demo.
• You teach remotely on your own machine with a stable connection, a camera and a microphone, and an editor and terminal set up to run the demo service.
• Ahead of your first class, you pass that class's instructor test.
• Before a teaching assignment starts, you sign an instructor agreement. It covers pay, confidentiality and how class material may be used.
• Each invitation states the class times and the price learners pay, and you see both before you accept.
• Already have a course on AI APIs, or want to make one? You can sell your own recorded course on YPAI Learn too. Bring a course you've built, or build one with our kit. It's the same application.

What you bring

• A service or integration you built on a model API in real work, with code or logs you can show.
• Experience teaching developers, writing technical tutorials, mentoring or running hands-on coding sessions.
• Patience with backend developers meeting non-deterministic output and usage-based billing for the first time.

You need

• Hands-on use of model APIs in production code: structured output, tool calling, streaming, retries and usage tracking.
• Backend experience in Python, TypeScript or a similar language, with HTTP, JSON and asynchronous requests.
• Fluent spoken English, the language the classes are taught in.
• 18 years or older.

Good to know

• Before you accept an assignment, get any approval for outside work that your employment contract requires.
• Teaching time depends on class demand, and you see the expected time commitment in each invitation before you reply.
• Nothing to pay to apply, and no YPAI Learn course you must buy or take.