Senior AI Systems Engineer, Education & Assessment

Pearson; Lansing (MI); Vor Ort; USD 140.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design, build, and improve intelligent systems for next‑gen K–12 assessment and learning. You will work across Content Development, Learning Science, AI, and Psychometrics, partnering with software engineers and the AI Data & Knowledge Architect to create testable AI capabilities in our assessment authoring system.

This hands‑on role spans predictive ML, retrieval, graph‑based approaches, and deterministic software, chosen for

Qualifikationen

• Advanced degree in CS/AI/ML or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and building complete AI systems end to end.
• Breadth across predictive ML, statistical learning, retrieval & knowledge-grounded systems.
• Experience evaluating probabilistic systems against ground truth or expert judgment.
• Experience with knowledge graphs & knowledge-grounded AI.
• Strong Python; TypeScript ability or willingness to learn quickly.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaborate with engineers & domain experts.

Aufgaben

• Design complete, modular AI systems spanning inputs, retrieval, models, agents, tools, and human review.
• Break complex problems into predictive ML, retrieval, graph reasoning, and deterministic software.
• Build working systems and reference implementations with software engineers.
• Create architectures that evolve with data, domain knowledge, and evaluation evidence.
• Design and implement agentic and knowledge-grounded workflows with models and tools.
• Develop AI capabilities for content creation, revision, and analytic insights.
• Make evaluation integral to development with datasets, benchmarks, and holdout data.
• Collaborate with psychometricians, content experts, and learning scientists.

Kenntnisse

Python proficiency

Strong collaboration

Analytical thinking

Ausbildung

Advanced degree in Computer Science / AI / ML / Statistics

Tools

TypeScript

Go

Python

MLflow

PostgreSQL

Graph data stores

Jobbeschreibung

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design, build, and improve intelligent systems for next‑gen K–12 assessment and learning. You will work across Content Development, Learning Science, AI, and Psychometrics, partnering with software engineers and the AI Data & Knowledge Architect to create testable AI capabilities in our assessment authoring system.

This hands‑on role spans predictive ML, retrieval, graph‑based approaches, and deterministic software, chosen for