Data Scientist, Generative AI

Data Scientist, Generative AI

REMOTE / FULL TIME

About Amira Learning :

Amira Learning accelerates literacy outcomes by delivering the latest reading and neuroscience with AI. As the leader in third-generation edtech, Amira listens to students read out loud, assesses mastery, helps teachers supplement instruction and delivers 1 : 1 tutoring. Validated by independent university and SEA efficacy research, Amira is the only AI literacy platform proven to achieve gains surpassing 1 : 1 human tutoring, consistently delivering effect sizes over 0.4.

Rooted in over thirty years of research, Amira is the first, foremost, and only proven Intelligent Assistant for teachers and AI Reading Tutor for students. The platform serves as a school district's Intelligent Growth Engine, driving instructional coherence by unifying assessment, instruction, and tutoring around the chosen curriculum.

Unlike any other edtech tool, Amira continuously identifies each student's skill gaps and collaborates with teachers to build lesson plans aligned with district curricula, pulling directly from the district's high-quality instructional materials. Teachers can finally differentiate instruction with evidence and ease, and students get the 1 : 1 practice they specifically need, whether they are excelling or working below grade level.

Trusted by more than 2,000 districts and working in partnership with twelve state education agencies, Amira is helping 3.5 million students worldwide become motivated and masterful readers.

About this role :

We are seeking a Data Scientist with expertise in the domain of reading science, education, literacy, and NLP; with practical experience building and utilizing Gen AI (LLM, image, and / or video) models. You will help to create Gen AI based apps that will power the most widely used Intelligent Assistant in U.S. schools, already helping more than 2 million children.

We are looking for strong, education focused engineers who have a background using the latest generative AI models, with experience in areas such as prompt engineering, model evaluation; data processing for training and fine-tuning; model alignment, and human-feedback-based model training.

Responsibilities include :

• Design methods, tools, and infrastructure to enable Amira to interact with students and educators in novel ways.
• Define approaches to content creation that will enable Amira to safely assist students to build their reading skills. This includes defining internal pipelines to interact with our content team.
• Contribute to experiments, including designing experimental details and hypothesis testing, writing reusable code, running evaluations, and organizing and presenting results.
• Work hands on with large, complex codebases, contributing meaningfully to enhance the capabilities of the machine learning team.
• Work within a fully distributed (remote) team.
• Find mechanisms for enabling the use of the Gen AI to be economically viable given the limited budgets of public schools.

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Commitment to Diversity :

Amira Learning serves a diverse group of students and educators across the United States and internationally. We believe every student should have access to a high-quality education and that it takes a diverse group of people with a wide range of experiences to develop and deliver a product that meets that goal. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

The posted salary range reflects the minimum and maximum base salary the company reasonably expects to pay for this role. Salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Individual pay is based on location, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, military service, or any other status protected by law.