The Scientist is an integral part of the machine learning team, which consists of 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, automated alerting of disturbing content in student responses, and generating items and passages.

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 support data design and analytic efforts for our suite of products, support model calibrations, support analysis for technical reports and contribute to our growing body of research, and contribute to enhancements of existing products or to new products.

Job Responsibilities:

• Conduct and support item and model calibrations 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.

• Conduct and support analyses for technical reporting on CAI's suite of engines,

• Support 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.

• Support applied research to actively publish and represent CAI's leadership in this area

Job Requirements:

• Masters in psychometrics/measurement, NLP, or statistics or related computational field required

• 0-3 years professional experience in K-12 assessment

• 0-3 years working with teams of software developers, NLP scientists, and data scientists

• Experience coding in Python preferred

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, age, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.