Innovation Engineer - AI Prototyping for Learning

Pearson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson Labs is seeking an Innovation Engineer who can turn ambitious learning ideas into working prototypes at speed. You will prototype across AI, multimodal tech, and immersive systems, and share evidence with senior leaders to shape future investments.

The role blends hands-on coding, experiments, and storytelling to inform product direction. Open to engineers who thrive in ambiguity, you’ll work with Learning Science, AI research, Ventures, and product teams, delivering clean handovers and

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and ship prototypes that test hypotheses about learning, assessment, and work, from quick demos to multi-technology systems piloted with real users.
• Run experiments properly: framed around a validated story, user-first, with measurable objectives and honest findings, whether the answer is yes or no.
• Work hands-on with emerging technologies, currently including AI agents, multimodal models, immersive and spatial computing, and knowledge graphs, and help the team understand what they mean for learning.
• Get to a minimal viable system quickly, keep it simple, and add complexity only when the evidence earns it.
• Tell the story of the work: demos, showcases, short technical notes, and contributions to our public portfolio site.
• Treat innovation as a team sport. You will build alongside our Learning Science teams, who ground prototypes in how people actually learn, with the other innovation teams around the business, including AI research, Ventures, and the innovation teams inside each business unit, with product teams who take our work forward, and with the business units who bring us their hardest problems.
• Document and hand over cleanly, so validated work can move into product engineering without losing what made it work.

Job description

Pearson Labs is seeking an Innovation Engineer who can turn ambitious learning ideas into working prototypes at speed. You will prototype across AI, multimodal tech, and immersive systems, and share evidence with senior leaders to shape future investments.

The role blends hands-on coding, experiments, and storytelling to inform product direction. Open to engineers who thrive in ambiguity, you’ll work with Learning Science, AI research, Ventures, and product teams, delivering clean handovers and