Job Summary

The Senior Scientist is an integral part of the machine learning team, which consists of mathematicians, data scientists, psychometricians, linguists, and software engineers. Our team focuses on natural language applications in educational measurement, with key foci in the automated scoring of student responses for both summative and interim assessments, automated feedback for formative assessments, and automated alerting of disturbing content in student responses. Our team uses state-of-the-art deep learning tools and models different modalities (e.g., speech, text) and is responsible for both prototyping and deploying engines and models. This position will either lead or support data design and analytic efforts for our suite of products, work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure we meet their needs, write technical reports and contribute to our growing body of research by publishing, and contribute to enhancements of existing products or to new products.

Job Responsibilities

• Support CAI’s innovation in natural language applications in support of our mission to improve educational outcomes for our students and educators. This includes automated scoring in large scale assessment programs (for writing, speech and other areas of educational measurement), detection of crisis alert content in student writing and the use of ML for feedback in student writing.

• Support CAI’s emerging product portfolio to for products that employ state of the art machine learning methods that provide solutions to real world problems in K-12, higher education and other related domains.

• Design and implement studies to obtain, score, model, and analyze results for any of CAI’s current natural language applications, including automated scoring, crisis alert detection, and feedback.

• Pursue applied research to actively publish and represent CAI’s leadership in this area

Job Requirements

• Ph.D. in psychometrics/measurement, NLP, or statistics or related computational field

• 5+ years professional experience in k-12 assessment

• 5+ years working with teams of software developers, NLP scientists, and data scientist

• Experience in working with client-facing work, including presentations

• Established publication record in NLP applications in k-12 assessment

Why Work With Us?

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

• Our systems are highly scaled and mission critical serving over a third of all students in grades 3-8 in the United States.

• Our web applications are highly interactive and universally accessible.

• Our machine scoring methods are driven by artificial intelligence allowing computers to perform such complex operations as grading essays with more accuracy than humans.

• Our processes use intensive algorithmic computing allowing a customized experience for each student as the exam adapts real-time based upon answers given.

In the 2021–2022 school year, we delivered more than 100 million online tests, successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.3 million simultaneous test takers,  while ensuring an average response time of less than a tenth of a second. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students. To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit www.cambiumassessment.com

An Equal Opportunity Employer

We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.