Senior AI Systems Engineer for Educational Assessment

Pearson; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design and advance intelligent systems powering next‑gen K–12 assessment products. You will work at the intersection of Content Development, Learning Science, AI, and Psychometrics, collaborating with engineers and architects to turn measurement expertise into testable AI capabilities.

The role emphasizes end‑to‑end system design, agentic and knowledge‑grounded AI, and evaluation‑driven development, with strong preference for

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in computer science, AI, statistics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and building complete AI or ML systems end to end, not isolated models.
• Strong breadth across predictive ML, retrieval, and knowledge-grounded AI.
• Proven ability to evaluate probabilistic systems against ground truth or expert judgment.

Responsibilities

• Design modular AI systems spanning data inputs, retrieval, models, agents, and integration.
• Break complex problems into ML, statistics, retrieval, graphs, and deterministic software with human review points.
• Build working systems and reference implementations; partner with engineers to integrate into the assessment platform.
• Design architectures that evolve with changing models and knowledge bases.
• Create agentic workflows using models, tools, retrieval, and structured outputs with human oversight.
• Develop knowledge-grounded systems with graph and vector retrieval approaches.
• Co-design knowledge architecture with the AI Data & Knowledge Architect.
• Advance content creation, verification, and alignment across frameworks and guidance.
• Make evaluation integral to development; build benches, datasets, and regression testing; monitor drift.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Knowledge graphs

ML system design

Evaluation & testing

Graph retrieval

Collaboration with engineers

AWS

MLflow

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science

Advanced degree in Artificial Intelligence

Advanced degree in Statistics

Equivalent experience

Tools

MLflow

PostgreSQL

Graph databases

AWS

Go

Job description

Pearson seeks a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design and advance intelligent systems powering next‑gen K–12 assessment products. You will work at the intersection of Content Development, Learning Science, AI, and Psychometrics, collaborating with engineers and architects to turn measurement expertise into testable AI capabilities.

The role emphasizes end‑to‑end system design, agentic and knowledge‑grounded AI, and evaluation‑driven development, with strong preference for