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 Advanced Development 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 Data Scientist to help build, ship, and scale production AI systems from the ground up. This is an engineering-forward ML/AI systems role, intended for candidates who are comfortable moving from prototype to production and can own critical parts of the ML/AI systems lifecycle, including pipelines, model integration, inference services, deployment, monitoring, and operational reliability. You will work closely with product, engineering, and research partners to turn advanced AI ideas into reliable product capabilities used at scale. Important note on scope: This rol