Pearson
Skills: TypeScript, Python, SQL, AWS
Role Overview
We are seeking a Lead Specialist, Applied AI Systems Engineer, to design, build, and continuously improve the intelligent systems that support Pearson(https://himalayas.app/companies/pearson)’s work developing the next generation of K–12 assessment and learning.
This role sits within the Measurement & Learning team and operates at the intersection of Content Development, Learning Science, Technology, AI Science, and Psychometrics, partnering closely with software engineers and the AI Data & Knowledge Architect to turn assessment and measurement expertise into testable AI capabilities within our assessment authoring system, which supports formative and summative assessment for Pearson(https://himalayas.app/companies/pearson) and its partners.
This hands-on role joins in the early phases of this work, improving and extending complete AI systems built on a shared knowledge foundation, rather than focusing on prompts or chatbots. The work spans predictive machine learning, statistical methods, retrieval, graph-based approaches, generative and agentic AI, and deterministic software, chosen for reliability rather than novelty.
We are particularly interested in innovators who have built AI or machine-learning systems whose outputs must be rigorously evaluated against ground truth, expert judgment, or reliable evidence, such as scientific, healthcare, financial, cybersecurity, legal, or assessment applications. Candidates whose experience is mainly in conversational or customer-service AI should also show substantial experience evaluating systems against defined performance standards. Experience in education, learning, or assessment is strongly preferred when it involves the systems beneath products, such as domain and skill models, learner models, standards and competency frameworks as structured data, or adaptive and recommendation engines, rather than standalone tutoring, chatbot, or content-generation applications.
End-to-End AI Systems Design
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