Senior Applied AI Systems Engineer – Education Assessment

Pearson; Charleston (WV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve intelligent systems supporting next‑gen K–12 assessment and learning. The role spans AI design, evaluation, and collaboration with software engineers and the AI Data & Knowledge Architect to turn domain expertise into testable AI capabilities within the assessment authoring system.

We focus on rigorous evaluation against ground truth and expert judgment, with emphasis on learning science and

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing and building complete AI or machine-learning systems end to end, not only isolated models or prompts.
• Strong breadth across predictive ML, statistical learning, and retrieval-grounded systems, with judgment about when each fits.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating probabilistic systems against ground truth or expert judgment, including evaluation datasets and regression testing.
• Experience with knowledge graphs and knowledge-grounded AI to contribute to architecture decisions.

Responsibilities

• Design complete, modular AI systems spanning knowledge, data inputs, retrieval, models, agents, tools, deterministic services, human review, evaluation, and integration.
• Build knowledge-grounded systems using graph, semantic, vector, and hybrid retrieval as appropriate.
• Co-design knowledge and graph architecture with the AI Data & Knowledge Architect, contributing substantively.
• Develop AI capabilities for content creation and revision, verification, alignment across frameworks, guidance, and analytic insights.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

AI/ML systems design

Evaluation of probabilistic systems

Knowledge graphs

Education

Advanced degree in CS/AI/ML/Statistics or related field

Tools

Go

Python

MLflow

Job description

Pearson seeks a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer to design, build, and continuously improve intelligent systems supporting next‑gen K–12 assessment and learning. The role spans AI design, evaluation, and collaboration with software engineers and the AI Data & Knowledge Architect to turn domain expertise into testable AI capabilities within the assessment authoring system.

We focus on rigorous evaluation against ground truth and expert judgment, with emphasis on learning science and