Software Engineer III - AI, LLM, & Cloud Platform

Pearson; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to analysis, design, implementation, unit testing, and quality engineering of new high-quality software solutions. You will help build a new platform using a modern tech stack and innovate processes.

The role requires rapid learning of new languages and domains (data science, psychometrics, AI cloud apps). You will own functionality, work with customers, and collaborate with engineering leadership to deliver robust software following best

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent tech discipline.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and domains (R, data science, agentic AI cloud apps).
• 3-5 years relevant full-stack development experience.
• Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of software, following industry best practices.
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent cloud-based Web applications.
• Some background in statistics is a big plus.
• AWS hosted applications.
• R and R data science libraries.
• Github and Github-driven CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support a new web application stack
• Leverage and refine LLM-codegen processes to balance agility and quality
• Develop and leverage agent-driven AI architectures
• Work closely with customers and adapt tools to their needs
• Develop psychometrics and data science-focused tools in R
• Operate, extend and create cloud-based solutions in AWS
• Develop and maintain code using best practices for maintainability, performance, security, and verifiability
• Possess the ability to quickly learn new processes, tools, and business domains
• Work with engineering leadership to deliver timely, robust software adhering to best practices

Skills

Full-stack development

Cloud-based apps

Agile experience

Learning agility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline

Tools

Github CI/CD

AWS Cloud

R data libraries

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to contribute to analysis, design, implementation, unit testing, and quality engineering of new high-quality software solutions. You will help build a new platform using a modern tech stack and innovate processes.

The role requires rapid learning of new languages and domains (data science, psychometrics, AI cloud apps). You will own functionality, work with customers, and collaborate with engineering leadership to deliver robust software following best