💼 Full-Time Position

Lead Specialist, AI Scientist

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Pearson
📍 , , spain, , , spain, Spain
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Location
, , spain, Spain
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Posted
June 04, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

AI Scientist / Engineer – Speech Language Model

Role Summary

The AI Scientist / Engineer – Speech Language Models leads the design, development, and evaluation of AI systems for language assessment, real‑time feedback, and skills evaluation. The role focuses on speech recognition, spoken language modeling, and automated scoring, ensuring models are accurate, reliable, fair, and scalable across learner‑facing and hiring‑facing applications.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and improve speech language models for spoken response understanding, pronunciation analysis, fluency, prosody, and communicative effectiveness.
  • Develop and evaluate automated scoring and feedback pipelines for speaking tasks used in AI‑driven speaking practice with instant feedback (learner‑facing).
  • Train, fine‑tune, and evaluate acoustic models, cascading models, speech‑to‑speech models, speech LMs, and scoring models, including neural and large ...