Platform Engineer: AI, Data Science & Cloud

Pearson; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is hiring a Software Engineer to join a team building a new platform, using a modern tech stack and agile processes. The role requires rapid learning of new tools, languages, and domains, and ownership of functionality from design to quality assurance.

You will develop and support a new web application stack, apply LLM-codegen, build agent-driven AI architectures, and collaborate with customers. R-based data science tools and AWS cloud solutions are part of the role, with a focus on

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent on-the-job training.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and domains (R, data science, agentic AI cloud apps).
• 3-5 years relevant full-stack software development experience.
• Experience with software development, maintenance, and testing following industry best practices.
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent cloud-based web applications.
• Some background in statistics is a plus.
• AWS hosted applications.
• R and R data science libraries.
• Github and Github-driven CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support a new web application stack.
• Leverage and refine LLM-codegen processes to balance agility and quality.
• Develop and leverage agent-driven AI architectures.
• Work closely with customers and adapt tools to their needs.
• Develop psychometrics and data science-focused tools in R.
• Operate, extend and create cloud-based solutions in AWS.
• Develop and maintain code with best practices for maintainability, performance, security, and verifiability.
• Quickly learn new processes, tools, and business domains.
• Work with engineering leadership to deliver timely, robust software adhering to best practices.

Skills

Full-stack development

Cloud-based applications

Learning new tools

Agile environment experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Github CI/CD

R data science libraries

Job description

Pearson is hiring a Software Engineer to join a team building a new platform, using a modern tech stack and agile processes. The role requires rapid learning of new tools, languages, and domains, and ownership of functionality from design to quality assurance.

You will develop and support a new web application stack, apply LLM-codegen, build agent-driven AI architectures, and collaborate with customers. R-based data science tools and AWS cloud solutions are part of the role, with a focus on