Learning Scientist: AI-Powered Education Prototyper

Weld North Education (now Imagine Learning); Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans (medical, dental, vision)

401k with company match

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Work from home options

Job summary

Imagine Learning, a leader in digital-first K–12 curriculum solutions, seeks a Learning Scientist to turn learning science into AI-enabled instructional materials. You will work on a small, entrepreneurial team to build prototypes and test artifacts that teachers can use at scale.

You will translate research into instructional content, develop knowledge graphs, and collaborate with engineers to refine content in short cycles. A Master’s degree and at least 3 years of experience are required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in learning sciences, educational psychology, cognitive science, or a related field and at least 3 years of applied learning design or research experience.
• Experience building instructional materials and prototypes; ability to show artifacts, explain design choices, and describe improvements made through testing.
• Ability to model domain knowledge, prerequisites, misconceptions, and connections across subjects using concept maps, knowledge graphs, or structured representations.

Responsibilities

• Translate learning science into concrete instructional examples, prototype content, design rules, and testable hypotheses for AI-enabled experiences.
• Build draft domain knowledge graphs that connect concepts, prerequisite skills, common misconceptions, and cross-domain touchpoints; refine them with experts and feedback.
• Create sample learning activities, worked examples, assessment tasks, and rubrics for engineers to use directly in prototypes and evaluations.
• Work with product and engineering to test interactions, identify instructional gaps, and revise content and behavior in short build cycles.
• Run lightweight learner sessions and rapid checks; use data to choose next improvements and explain evidence limits.
• Evaluate AI interactions and generated content for instructional quality, accuracy, accessibility, and bias; build test cases for recurring failures.

Skills

Instructional design

AI experimentation

Prototype development

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Master’s degree in learning sciences or related field

Tools

Authoring tools

Job description

Imagine Learning, a leader in digital-first K–12 curriculum solutions, seeks a Learning Scientist to turn learning science into AI-enabled instructional materials. You will work on a small, entrepreneurial team to build prototypes and test artifacts that teachers can use at scale.

You will translate research into instructional content, develop knowledge graphs, and collaborate with engineers to refine content in short cycles. A Master’s degree and at least 3 years of experience are required.