Senior AI Systems Engineer: Knowledge-Driven Education

Pearson; Raleigh (NC); Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design, build, and improve intelligent systems for K–12 assessment and learning within the Measurement & Learning team. This hands-on role works with software engineers and AI architects to turn measurement expertise into testable AI capabilities.

You will design end-to-end AI architectures, evaluate systems rigorously, and collaborate with psychometricians and content experts to translate requirements into measurable criteria.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in CS/AI/ML or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and building complete AI systems end to end.
• Breadth across predictive ML, retrieval-grounded systems, and graph reasoning.
• Experience evaluating probabilistic systems against ground truth or expert judgment.
• Experience with knowledge graphs and knowledge-grounded AI.
• Strong Python proficiency and TypeScript ability.
• Autonomy and collaboration with engineers and domain experts.

Responsibilities

• Design modular AI systems spanning inputs, retrieval, models, agents, tools, deterministic services, human review, evaluation, and integration.
• Break complex problems into predictive ML, statistical methods, retrieval, graph reasoning, and deterministic software.
• Build working systems and reference implementations, and partner with software engineers to integrate them into the assessment authoring system.
• Collaborate with psychometricians and content experts to translate requirements into evaluation criteria.
• Monitor deployed systems for drift and emerging failures, and drive improvements.
• Communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Knowledge graphs

Evaluation of probabilistic systems

Collaboration with engineers

Education

Advanced degree in Computer Science, AI, ML, Statistics, or related field

Tools

AWS

PostgreSQL

Graph data stores

MLflow

Go

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design, build, and improve intelligent systems for K–12 assessment and learning within the Measurement & Learning team. This hands-on role works with software engineers and AI architects to turn measurement expertise into testable AI capabilities.

You will design end-to-end AI architectures, evaluate systems rigorously, and collaborate with psychometricians and content experts to translate requirements into measurable criteria.