Position : Principal AI Scientist

Role: Full time, 40 hrs/week

Salary: 25-32k PLN Gross/Contract of Employment

Location : Poznań, Poland (hybrid or working from home from anywhere in Poland)

About you & skills that will help you to be successful in this role

• Strong proficiency in NLP

• Experience with Large Language Models like GPT-3

• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning models 

• Proficiency in Python and machine learning tools like TensorFlow, PyTorch

• Software engineering skills

• Experience in managing projects and leading people

• Experience in working with non-technical stakeholders 

• Presentation, collaboration and mentoring skills 

Your daily work:

• Work within the innovation Accelerator unit.

• Cooperating with a cross-disciplinary team pushing the boundaries of Educational Technology

• Hands-on R&D on AI systems that will be used in new Pearson products

• You will often work on proof of concepts aimed at validating new ideas

• Leading a small AI R&D team of technical people working directly with you

• Technical ownership of the AI part of Accelerator’s backlog

We got for you a great range of benefits

• Work in a global environment and grow your professional network 

• Unlimited access to rich sources of knowledge (Coursera, A Cloud Guru, Safari Books…)

• Attractive benefits including MultiSport Card, cinema and theatre tickets, touristic excursions, etc.) 

• Private health care, accident insurance for you and your family 

• Opportunity to master your English skills at daily work and/or by taking companywide English classes 

• Work-life balance, Flexible working arrangement

• Remote work or hybrid (Poznan) work as option 

• Paid leave for volunteer purposes 

• PPK at 4%

• Annual bonus based on performance

• Annual Christmas funding

• Holiday funding (biennially)

• Invest and Earn money and/ or become a shareholder with Pearson Worldwide programme ‘Save for Shares’

About the AI Learning Capabilities (AILC) team

• The AILC team at the Pearson Poznań office is a part of an  R&D unit that creates AI Learning Capabilities  (i.e. systems that use AI methods to facilitate the process of human learning). The team consists of AI Scientists, AI Engineers, and Technical Project Managers.

• Our role is to:

• Design, build, and continuously improve customer-facing Intelligent Learning Capabilities across Pearson.

• Provide technical leadership in the application of AI at Pearson.

• We specialise in two main types of intelligent capabilities:

• Adaptive modelling & diagnostic capabilities that fast-track learners through a course of learning and identify struggling learners.

• Natural language processing-based assessment capabilities that evaluate a learner's soft & hard skills through text or speech.

• In our work, we often innovate around implementing psychometric ideas using the latest machine learning methods and prototyping innovative natural language processing methods. See more of our work.

• We proudly support the Polish AI community by sponsoring conferences (ML in PL, Why R?, GHOST Day, Cloud & Datacentre Day), hosting meetups with the Women in Machine Learning & Data Science organisation, and hosting our own series of open talks & workshops.

About Pearson  

Did you know Pearson is one of the 10 most innovative education companies of 2022? 

At Pearson, we add life to a lifetime of learning so everyone can realize the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact.  

We’re on a journey to be 100% digital to ensure we can deliver direct to consumers everywhere. This has only been accelerated by COVID-19. To meet the changing needs of the global population we have developed a new strategy with ambitious targets. Our Purpose | Add Life to a Lifetime of Learning 

At Pearson, we are focused on delivering the best products and outcomes to more people than ever before by leveraging technology, such as the Pearson Learning Platform

Your Personal Data

The administrator of your personal data is Pearson Central Europe sp. z o.o., with its registered office in Warsaw, ul. Szamocka 8 (PCE). The Data Protection Officer appointed by PCE can be contacted by e-mail at pce.dpo@pearson.com, as well as by traditional mail at the address as above, with the note "RODO". Your personal data is processed on the basis of: GDPR art. 6 sec. 1 lit. A - your consent (concerns data provided in the application, going beyond other processing grounds) GDPR art. 6 sec. 1 lit. B - actions taken at your request, before concluding the contract (aimed at concluding the contract), limited to the scope indicated in the legal provision (Article 22 par. 1,3,4 of the Act - Labor Code) GDPR art. 6 sec. 1 lit. F - PCE's legitimate interest related to the possible determination, investigation or defense of claims against PCE (GDPR Article 82(3)) Your personal data will be stored for 3 years after the end of the recruitment process. You have the right to access your data and the right to rectify, delete, limit processing, the right to transfer data, the right to object, the right to withdraw consent, the right to be forgotten. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the President of the Personal Data Protection Office when you consider that the processing of your personal data violates the provisions of the GDPR. Providing your personal data is voluntary, but necessary to achieve the purposes of processing. The consent that has been granted may be withdrawn at any time, which will be tantamount to ceasing to process specific data. Your data will not be automatically profiled. PCE may transfer your personal data to a third country, including outside the EEA, which is related to Pearson's policy and IT tools used. Personal data may be made available to bodies authorized under the law and entrusted on the basis of an entrustment agreement concluded in writing to entities providing services on behalf of PCE.

Job: RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Organization: English Language Learning

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 9868

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