Software Engineer III — AI Platform & Cloud Innovator

Pearson; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to analyze, design, implement, unit test, and quality-engineer scalable software solutions for a new platform built on a modern stack and cloud-first architecture. The role requires rapid learning of new tools, languages, and domains (data science, psychometrics, LLM codegen, agentic AI).

You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with customers, and drive best practices in code quality and security.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/MIS or equivalent on-the-job training.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and new domains (R, data science, agentic AI cloud applications).
• 3–5 years relevant full-stack software development experience.
• Experience with development, maintenance, and testing of software, following industry best practices.
• Experience with highly available, highly concurrent cloud-based Web applications.
• AWS hosted applications.

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

AWS cloud

R data science

LLM codegen

Agentic AI

Customer collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent technology discipline, or equivalent on-the-job training

Tools

Github

Github-driven CI/CD

AWS hosted applications

R

R data science libraries

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Software Engineer to analyze, design, implement, unit test, and quality-engineer scalable software solutions for a new platform built on a modern stack and cloud-first architecture. The role requires rapid learning of new tools, languages, and domains (data science, psychometrics, LLM codegen, agentic AI).

You will own features end-to-end, collaborate with customers, and drive best practices in code quality and security.