Workera · 1 day ago
Assessment Scientist
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelWorkera is a fast-growing, Series B Silicon Valley start-up redefining how enterprises understand, develop, and mobilize talent. The AI Assessment Scientist will design and deliver assessments using AI-assisted workflows and evidence-centered design, ensuring the assessments provide defensible evidence of skills for enterprise decision-making.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)E-LearningEdTechMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Gain a deep understanding of Workera’s AI-native assessment approach, including skill modeling, evidence-centered design (ECD), and Workera’s assessment authoring product, Compose
Use AI-assisted and agentic workflows in assessment creation, applying expert judgment to ensure clear, meaningful, and defensible evidence of real skills
Collaborate closely with assessment developers, skill strategy managers, designers, and science leadership to shape and deliver assessments in real product contexts
Improve and refine AI-assisted and agentic assessment workflows and supporting operations, increasing efficiency, consistency, and assessment quality at scale
Identify and eliminate manual bottlenecks while preserving rigorous, skill-centric assessment standards
Guide contractor-based assessment development and maintenance, setting clear standards and examples and maintaining a high, consistent quality bar across domains
Make assessment creation and review processes more robust across multiple applications, domains, and customer use cases
Maintain and evolve Workera’s signature assessment catalog, ensuring coherence, quality, and defensible skill evidence as the platform scales
Optimize the distributed contractor model by improving collaboration, review processes, and synthesis of contributions
Maintain, evolve, and future-proof assessment tooling, templates, and quality standards used by assessment developers and clients
Qualification
Required
Master's or PhD in Industrial–Organizational Psychology, Psychometrics, Educational Measurement, or a closely related field
Experience designing and delivering high-stakes assessments (e.g., hiring, certification, workforce mobility)
Experience using AI-assisted workflows to generate, evaluate, or scale assessment content
Strong applied expertise in evidence-centered design (ECD) and psychometrics; working knowledge of IRT and related models
Ability to independently own complex and customized assessment work end to end, including collaboration with internal and client stakeholders
Experience reviewing and elevating work produced by contractors or distributed contributors
Clear, precise communication—especially when translating science into concrete decisions
Proficiency in utilizing AI tools such as ChatGPT or equivalent digital assistants and applying them effectively within your work context
Company
Workera
Workera is an enterprise skill assessment and upskilling platform for data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.
Founded in 2019
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$44.5MKey Investors
AccentureJump CapitalNew Enterprise Associates
2025-01-22Corporate Round
2023-03-23Series B· $23.5M
2022-08-02Convertible Note
Leadership Team
Kian Katanforoosh
CEO & Founder
Recent News
2025-11-22
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