Remote Senior AI Scientist, Production ML & GenAI

Pearson; Tallahassee (FL); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a strategic Lead Specialist- AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and scale production AI/ML capabilities powering learner intelligence, knowledge graphs, recommendations, and personalized learning experiences. This remote US role spans AI research, data science, software engineering, and product delivery.

You will lead Generative AI, LLM, RAG, and agentic AI initiatives from concept to production, mentor engineers, and define best practices for responsible AI and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and deploying production AI/ML systems, including cloud-native applications and MLOps practices.
• Strong experience with applied machine learning, Generative AI, LLMs, RAG architectures, knowledge graphs, or agentic AI solutions.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying AI applications using foundation models and modern AI frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python and modern software engineering practices, including APIs, testing, CI/CD, version control, and production operations.
• Experience designing scalable AI platforms, services, and deployment architectures in AWS or similar cloud environments.
• Experience with containerization, orchestration, infrastructure-as-code, and production-grade deployment practices.
• Experience evaluating, monitoring, and optimizing AI systems for quality, reliability, safety, latency, scalability, and cost.
• Experience with modern AI technologies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, LangGraph, LangChain, Semantic Kernel, vector databases, or similar platforms.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with product, engineering, and business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, AI/ML, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, deployment, and operation of production AI capabilities powering learner intelligence and personalization.
• Deliver Generative AI, LLM, RAG, and agentic AI solutions with measurable product impact.
• Build reusable AI platform components, services, APIs, and workflows to accelerate adoption.
• Own end-to-end AI delivery lifecycle from prototyping to deployment and monitoring.
• Establish scalable MLOps and AIOps practices for training, deployment, observability, governance.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Design, Learning Science, and Data Science teams to deliver AI capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and architectures balancing quality, safety, latency, and cost.
• Establish best practices for responsible AI, model evaluation, and governance.
• Mentor engineers and data scientists to elevate AI engineering capabilities.
• Communicate strategy, decisions, trade-offs, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders.

Skills

Years of production AI/ML

Applied ML & Generative AI

Foundation models deployment

Python & API/CI-CD

AWS or cloud deployment

Containerization & IaC

AI systems monitoring & optimization

OpenAI/Anthropic/Bedrock/Azure OpenAI

Cross-functional collaboration

BS in CS/Engineering/Data Science/AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Data Science/AI

Master's or PhD in CS/AI/ML/Statistics

Job description

Pearson is seeking a strategic Lead Specialist- AI Scientist to design, build, deploy, and scale production AI/ML capabilities powering learner intelligence, knowledge graphs, recommendations, and personalized learning experiences. This remote US role spans AI research, data science, software engineering, and product delivery.

You will lead Generative AI, LLM, RAG, and agentic AI initiatives from concept to production, mentor engineers, and define best practices for responsible AI and