Machine Learning Intern

Cambium Learning Group

1d • Remote

About The Position

Cambium Learning Group is seeking a summer intern to join their machine learning team. This team focuses on modeling unconstrained text to support educational assessment programs, primarily using transformer-based deep learning models. The intern will work on comparing various approaches for automated scoring of Spanish constructed response items. This project involves experimenting with multilingual language models, evaluating the performance of automated scoring for Spanish items using industry-standard metrics like QWK, accuracy, and SMD.

Requirements

• Enrolled in a data science, computer science, mathematics, linguistic, or educational measurement Master’s or Ph.D. program.
• Experience working with text and natural language processing tools.
• Coding ability with Python.
• Ability to work autonomously and collaborate effectively within a team.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with written Spanish would be an asset.

Responsibilities

• Work with psychometricians and data scientists to define a research problem, design an experiment, implement the study, and write up results.
• Write code in Python using machine learning frameworks and libraries to ingest and clean data, build models, and evaluate results.
• Document, archive, and present work on the project.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team discussing methods and results of this project and others.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern