Head of Data – AI

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🕒 August 19

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

📊 Data Scientist

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AERDF

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11 - 50 employees

📚 Education

🔬 Science

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Science • Non-profit

AERDF is an organization that advances scientific discoveries and pursues evidence-based breakthrough innovations to improve PreK-12 education. Through an advanced inclusive research and development approach, AERDF designs, measures, and evaluates learning solutions to create significant breakthroughs in US PreK-12 education. Their programs focus on specific areas such as math improvement through executive functioning skills, transforming educational assessments with technology, and developing literacy skills for students needing tailored support. AERDF collaborates with a diverse network of educators, researchers, and organizations to drive multigenerational change, particularly for underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students. The organization also supports educational leaders through its fellowship program to cultivate ideas that can transform education systems nationwide.

📋 Description

• Lead the development of reusable data modeling approaches and robust technical infrastructure • Build shared libraries, models, and open-source frameworks for educational prototypes • Transform bespoke or lab-based implementations into generalizable solutions across multiple products • Identify technical approaches that de-risk innovation and accelerate the R&D process • Ensure data science initiatives support shared goals and technical consistency across the AugmentED ecosystem • Partner with engineering to integrate research-grade models into the core AugmentED platform • Ensure data modeling approaches are modular and deployable within platform infrastructure • Grow and manage a high-performing team of 3–6 data science consultants, including grad students, postdocs, and faculty • Foster a culture of excellence, equity, and collaborative problem-solving • Facilitate collaboration between AugmentED teams, university researchers, and educators

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience as a data scientist or applied AI/ML leader designing and deploying data models, algorithms, and AI systems for real-world products • Desire to be both a hands-on contributor and a technical leader across a distributed network of researchers, engineers, and technical contributors • Deep knowledge of machine learning, AI, statistics, and modern data infrastructure • Experience designing extensible data architectures and technical foundations for future growth • Demonstrated ability to develop reusable data models, algorithms, and technical frameworks beyond a single project or use case • Experience partnering with software engineering teams to productionize AI and data science work • Strong understanding of the end-to-end AI development lifecycle, including data pipelines, model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring • Experience building technical foundations enabling collaboration across research, engineering, and product teams • Experience defining requirements, communicating technical constraints, and aligning stakeholders around a shared technical vision • Experience in educational research, learning science, or ed-tech environments (preferred) • Experience partnering with academic researchers, universities, or interdisciplinary research teams (preferred) • Commitment to education equity and social impact • Strategic thinking balanced with hands-on technical abilities • Skilled communicator able to collaborate effectively with academic research partners • Strong growth mindset and comfort with uncertainty

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary relative to other nonprofits • Comprehensive benefits • Opportunities for personal and professional development • Mission-driven, collaborative culture • Opportunity to shape the future of education