Psychometrician, AWS Training & Certification

Amazon • Portland, OR

13d • $136,000 - $184,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification team is seeking a Psychometrician with experience working with criterion-referenced assessment programs to support a large global AWS Certification and Credentialing program. You will work closely with a team of psychometricians, subject matter experts, certification exam program managers, publishing, delivery, security, and product management teams to support ongoing analyses of exam and credential data. To be successful in this position, you must be highly motivated, creative, detail oriented, and a self-starter who is able to think big, execute, ensure high quality, yet stay focused on the details.

Requirements

• PhD
• Degree held in Statistics, Psychometrics, Educational Measurement, Quantitative Psychology, Data Science, Industrial-Organizational (I/O) Psychology, or a related field and one year of research or work experience in the job offered, or as a Research Scientist, Research Assistant, Software Engineer, or a related occupation.
• Must have 1 year of experience in the following skill(s): 1. large-scale education, licensure, or certification assessment programs.
• Must have 1 year of experience in the following skill(s): 2. operational psychometric tasks on large-scale education, licensure, or certification assessment programs including item analysis, equating and scaling, item response theory, classical test theory, form and pool assembly, item bank health analysis, standard setting, and job task analysis.
• Must have 1 year of experience in the following skill(s): 3. at least one of the complex test designs such as linear-on-the-fly testing (LOFT), computerized adaptive testing (CAT).
• Must have 1 year of experience in the following skill(s): 4. at least one of the following areas including machine learning (ML) or natural language processing (NLP).
• Must have 1 year of experience in the following skill(s): 5. Programming skills in at least one script-based programming language (R, Python).

Nice To Haves

• Experience in testing for global audiences.
• History of conference presentations and publications.
• Experience with data forensics methods.

Responsibilities

• Perform and support the main psychometric aspects of exam development and operations, including but not limited to automated test assembly, item and test analyses, optimal item bank design, job task analysis, standard setting, quality assurance, and project planning.
• Conduct main aspects of psychometric analysis in operational work including performing item analysis using psychometric methods, building optimal test forms and pools via optimization techniques, analyzing and monitoring item bank health, setting pass standards via standard setting studies, and supporting Job Task Analysis (JTA) to define and refresh test blueprints.
• Conduct main aspects of psychometric analysis in developing and applying statistical and psychometric modeling to evaluate and ensure AWS certification exams’ validity, reliability, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Participate in research projects to improve existing operational processes and quality using advanced techniques such as Machine Learning (ML), statistical modeling, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), etc.
• Develop automation code using R or Python for psychometric workflow pipeline and other tasks to improve operational efficiencies.
• Present, interpret, and communicate the results of analyses to stakeholders through written and oral reports.
• Follow the accreditation standards set by ISO/IEC:2012 17024 and the National Council for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) as they relate to valid psychometric practices.
• Engage with the professional community through conferences and publications.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree