Education AI Scientist: NLP + LLMs for Real Impact

Sown To Grow; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health benefits

Flexible work arrangement

Growth opportunities

Mission-driven culture

Job summary

Sown To Grow is hiring a Data Scientist to drive NLP/ML models that analyze student and educator text, turning insights into real features used in classrooms. You’ll work across ML, NLP, and production systems with a small team that ships fast and impacts millions of students.

You’ll validate models, handle data responsibly, and collaborate with product/engineering to scale solutions that improve student outcomes and educator support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/DS/ML/Math/Stats or related field.
• 2+ years of Data Scientist/ML Engineer experience with real-world ML problems.
• Strong proficiency in Python and ML stack; NLP experience with text data.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine NLP/ML models on large unstructured text.
• Collaborate with product/engineering to turn ML into user-facing features.
• Extend models to support broader prompts and accessibility while maintaining accuracy.
• Design responsible use of LLMs for generative/assistive features with guardrails.
• Build monitoring and retraining pipelines with data-drift detection.
• Prepare preprocessing and reproducible feature/evaluation workflows.

Skills

Python

ML stack

NLP

Production code

Git workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/DS/ML/Math/Stats

Tools

Python

Pandas/Numpy/Scikit-learn

PyTorch/TensorFlow

AWS SageMaker

Job description

Sown To Grow is hiring a Data Scientist to drive NLP/ML models that analyze student and educator text, turning insights into real features used in classrooms. You’ll work across ML, NLP, and production systems with a small team that ships fast and impacts millions of students.

You’ll validate models, handle data responsibly, and collaborate with product/engineering to scale solutions that improve student outcomes and educator support.