Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
This role aligns with market job titles such as Agentic system engineer, Agentic Ai Engineer, or AgentOps Engineer
Drive the future of Agentic AI at Pearson as part of the AgentOps Engineering team. Inspire innovation. Empower learning.
Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to play a key role on our AgentOps Engineering team.
Why This Role Matters
Are you passionate about building AI agents that reason, plan, route work, and run reliably in production—not just prototypes? Do you want to shape how an enterprise builds, operates, and governs digital workers at scale? Join our AgentOps Engineering team and help build the core platform capabilities that power agent crews running across the business.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role focused on building. You’ll ship the write-path features that let agents take real actions, design the orchestration and routing patterns that direct work to the right agent, and engineer enhancements to the platform itself—working inside it, not just on top of it.
Through this, you’ll help teams across Pearson put dependable AI agents to work, and help people realize the lives they imagine through learning.
As a key member of the AgentOps Engineering team and Pearson, you will be expected to embody, and role model our leadership dimensions:
Live Our Purpose: You connect your engineering work to Pearson’s mission and make decisions that reflect a clear understanding of our strategy.
Simplify the Complexity: You navigate ambiguity in a fast-changing field and distil complex agentic systems into explicit, reliable solutions.
Carry Our Culture: You collaborate generously, mentor through design and code reviews, and contribute to an inclusive, high-performing team.
Deliver Results: You set a high quality bar, get the details right, and own outcomes that matter to learners and stakeholders.
What You’ll Do
Build write-path features
Ship the features that let ag