Senior Applied Data Scientist (Learner Modeling)

At Instructure, we believe in the power of people to grow and succeed throughout their lives. Our goal is to amplify that power by creating intuitive products that simplify learning and personal development, facilitate meaningful relationships, and inspire people to go further in their education and careers. We do this by giving smart, creative, passionate people opportunities to create awesome. And that's where you come in: Our team builds AI-native capabilities, reusable AI systems, and shared infrastructure that power multiple products and workflows across the platform. We are looking for a Senior Applied Data Scientist to develop and validate knowledge tracing and longitudinal learner models, defining what "mastery" means operationally and ensuring the outputs are trustworthy, calibrated, and fair before they reach learners and educators. This is a measurement role as much as a modeling role, closer to computational psychometrics than to generic data science: a prediction that is accurate on average but miscalibrated, unstable, or unfair is not product-ready, and judging that difference is the core of the job. You will partner with AI platform engineers to productionize trainin... Click Apply to read the full job description.