Job Title : Senior Software Engineer
Description: In this role, you'll own the agentic solutions that reinvent how Pearson works. The role aligns to industry level titles such as "
Forward Deployment Agent Engineer " or "
AI Agentic Engineer "
Drive the future of how Pearson works as part of the AgentOps team in the Office of the CTO (OCTO). Inspire innovation. Empower learning. What You'll Do - Deploy Forward with the Business
- Embed directly with teams across Pearson as a forward-deployed engineer - sit with the people doing the work, learn their domain, and build agents into their real workflows.
- Move from first conversation to a working system in the field in days, then iterate with users in the loop until the agent earns a permanent place in their day.
- Own what you build end to end - discovery, architecture, interface, deployment, and the outcome once it is live.
- Build Production-Grade Agentic Applications
- Design and ship multi-agent systems that use tools via MCP, coordinate with one another over agent-to-agent protocols, and hand work back to people at the right moment.
- Build the interfaces that make agents genuinely usable: generative and streaming UI, human-in-the-loop review, voice and speech-to-speech interaction, and multimodal input.
- Work fluently across the agentic framework landscape - LangChain and LangGraph, Deep Agents, CrewAI, Google's Agent Development Kit, the Microsoft Agent Framework, and the OpenAI, Claude and Vercel AI SDKs - and choose the right tool for each problem.
- Engineer for Trust
- Instrument traces, build eval suites and guardrails, and catch regressions before users do.
- Ship into enterprise reality: SSO, permissions, data governance, observability and reliability.
- Hold a high bar on craft - clean architecture, strong testing, and systems that hold up under real-world use.
- Bring the Frontier In
- Evaluate emerging frameworks, models and protocols as they land, and bring into production what is ready for it.
- Work agent-first in your own engineering, using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Antigravity with strong review and testing discipline.
- Turn what you learn in the field into reusable patterns, components and platform capabilities the rest of AgentOps can build on.
Who You Are: - An owner and an entrepreneur - as comfortable defining the problem as solving it.
- A forward-deployed builder, energised by sitting with users, learning their domain, and shipping into their real workflows.
- A full-stack engineer who treats the interface as part of the product.
- An early adopter with shipped work behind you - you form your own view on new frameworks by building with them.
- A rigorous engineer who reasons from traces, evals and evidence.
- A collaborator who turns ideas into impact, fast.
- A believer in the mission - you want the agents you build to free people to do their best, most human work.
What You Bring - 5+ years building and shipping production software, including recent hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating agentic applications in production.
- Strong full-stack engineering across the modern web stack - TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node and Python - with sound architecture and system-design judgment.
- Hands-on experience with agentic frameworks and orchestration - LangChain and LangGraph, Deep Agents, CrewAI, Google's Agent Development Kit, the Microsoft Agent Framework, the OpenAI or Claude Agent SDKs, the Vercel AI SDK or equivalents - and a clear view of the trade-offs between them.
- Experience building the agent interface layer: generative and streaming UI with AG-UI, A2UI, CopilotKit or similar, and human-in-the-loop interaction patterns.
- Multi-agent systems in production: tool-using agents via MCP, agent-to-agent coordination, and the evals and guardrails that keep them reliable.
- Practical experience with voice and multimodal AI - speech-to-speech models, realtime audio and vision - and judgment on where they add value in a product.
- A trace- and eval-driven approach: you instrument agents, read the traces, and design evals and guardrails from what the evidence shows.
- Fluent daily use of agentic engineering tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Antigravity, with the engineering judgment and review discipline to match.
- Customer-facing delivery skill: you can run discovery with a business team, scope tightly, and communicate credibly with both engineers and senior stakeholders.
- Enterprise delivery experience: auth and SSO, permissions, data governance, observability and reliability on an organizational scale.
- Working knowledge of the data layer behind good agents - retrieval, vector databases and data engineering pipelines.
What You'll Gain: - The chance to help build the world's best symbiotic workforce from the ground up - genuinely zero-to-one work.
- Room to work at the frontier of agentic AI, with real ownership and autonomy.
- Impact you can see: freeing thousands of colleagues to do their best work, in service of learners worldwide.
- A small, high-caliber team in the Office of the CTO, with visibility to senior technology leadership.
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.
The full-time salary range for this role is $95,000 - $160,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here.
Applications will be accepted through 13th November 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
Apply today and imagine the impact you can make. Job: Service Owner
Job Family: TECHNOLOGY
Organization: OCTO
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Req ID: 24914
