Curriculum Developer - School of Computer Science - LTI

Carnegie Mellon University•Pittsburgh, PA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Curriculum Developer serves as the academic implementation lead and pedagogical architect for the certificate, ensuring that the individual courses form a coherent, integrated, and high-quality educational experience. Working closely with the Faculty Certificate Director, Faculty Course Directors, Adjunct Preceptors, CMU Online, and the Certificate Operations Manager, this role provides continuity as instructors, technologies, and course offerings evolve. The Curriculum Developer is responsible for curriculum integration, instructional quality, online pedagogy, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
3 to 5 years of operating systems administrative experience including experience with Python, Large Language Models (LLM) (prompt development, pretraining, finetuning, and RLHF), software development and model deployment on cloud platforms such as AWS.
Successful completion of a pre-employment background check

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in designing coursework and/or teaching is preferred.
A combination of education and proven experience from which comparable knowledge is demonstrated may be considered.

Responsibilities

Ensure coherence across courses; Align learning objectives, prerequisites, and assessment philosophy; Eliminate unnecessary overlap while identifying curricular gaps; Maintain curriculum roadmap.
Develop detailed course structures; Design assignments and projects; Develop laboratories and instructional materials; Coordinate assessment design; Support online pedagogy appropriate for professional learners.
Coordinate annual updates by reviewing advances in the field, incorporating new tools and models, updating laboratories, refreshing case studies, replacing obsolete technologies, recommending curriculum improvements to Faculty Course Directors.
Serve as the primary liaison with CMU Online by coordinating: video production, recording schedules, instructional design, accessibility, multimedia development, Learning Management System organization and publishing.
Provide instructional continuity by onboarding new Adjunct Preceptors, preparing instructor guides, coordinating teaching materials, ensuring consistency across offerings, supporting integration of industry case studies.
Prior to each offering, review instructional materials, validate laboratories and software environments, verify assignments and grading rubrics, ensure all instructional assets function correctly, coordinate revisions based on student feedback.
Analyze course evaluations, review learning analytics, identify opportunities for improvement, recommend instructional innovations, coordinate certificate-wide enhancements.
Collaborate with other Certificate Curriculum Developers to identify opportunities for shared courses, harmonize prerequisites, maximize reuse of instructional assets, maintain consistency across the LTI certificate ecosystem.