Associate Technical Engineer Intern
Highmark Health
Learning Engineer – Instrumentation and Analysis
Carnegie Mellon University
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • California, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Partner with engineering to design and implement event tracking across lessons, assessments, and practice activities.
- Ensure logging schemas capture fine-grained data such as attempts, hints, time-on-task, and error patterns.
- Audit and maintain data quality so insights are trustworthy and actionable.
- Analyze learner/learning data, identifying opportunities for improvement in content and feature design, coordinating efforts to implement the changes and track their impact on student learning.
- Apply learning science models (e.g., learning curves, item response theory, knowledge tracing) to track skill growth and predict mastery.
- Identify where learners struggle and what drives retention, progression, and engagement.
- Translate findings into recommendations for product, content, and instructional design improvements.
- Collaborate with product managers and designers to shape existing and new features based on learning data.
- Support A/B testing and experiments to measure the effectiveness of interventions.
- Deliver clear, business-oriented reports and dashboards for stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
- At least three (3) years of experience in Learning Sciences, Data Science, Computer Science, or related field
- Experience analyzing learner or user interaction data in large-scale learning platforms (higher ed learning platforms is a plus)
- Strong analytical and statistical skills (SQL, Python, R)
- Experience with cognitive modeling, learning curves, or educational data mining
- Experience working with event logging, data pipelines, or instrumentation frameworks
- Familiarity with mathematics instruction at the higher education level is a plus
- Knowledge of learning science research, best practices in pedagogy and andragogy, and research-based principles of multimedia design is a plus
- A combination of education and relevant experience from which comparable knowledge is demonstrated may be considered
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
- generous retirement savings program with employer contributions
- tuition benefits
- ample paid time off
- observed holidays
- life and accidental death and disability insurance
- free Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus pass
- access to our Family Concierge Team to help navigate childcare needs
- fitness center access
- and much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
SQLPythonRdata analysisevent trackingdata quality auditingcognitive modelingeducational data miningA/B testingdata pipelines
Soft skills
analytical skillscommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingreportingstakeholder engagementrecommendation developmentorganizational skillsadaptabilitycritical thinking
