Principal Research Scientist
Listed on 2026-08-30
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HR/Recruitment
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Education / Teaching
About ETS:
ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories.
Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.
Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.
POSITION SUMMARY:The ETS Research Institute invites applications for a Principal Research Scientist position to lead and contribute to a research agenda focused on human capital development, workforce readiness, and economic mobility in an AI-enabled world. We seek scholars whose research advances understanding of how skills, competencies, and other forms of human capital are developed, measured, and rewarded, and how they influence educational attainment, labor market success, and economic mobility in an economy increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence.
Particular areas of interest include (1) understanding and measuring the skills and capabilities that drive success in education and labor markets, including how advances in AI are reshaping skill demand, workforce readiness, and pathways to opportunity, and (2) generating evidence on the effectiveness of educational and workforce development pathways, including competency-based education (CBE), career and technical education (CTE), and other approaches designed to promote skill acquisition, employment, earnings growth, and long-term economic mobility.
The successful candidate will join a collaborative team of researchers developing innovative frameworks, assessments, and evidence to better understand how human capabilities contribute to individual, educational, and labor market outcomes. This work seeks to inform educators, employers, policymakers, and workforce leaders as they navigate a rapidly changing economy and create pathways to opportunity for diverse learners and workers.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:Lead and refine a research agenda on academic and workforce readiness science and the expansion of workforce pathways, setting priorities and directing a multi-year program of work.
Advance the science of readiness for education, work, and upward mobility — examining how skills and other forms of human capital shape educational attainment, labor market success, productivity, earnings growth, and economic mobility in an economy increasingly influenced by AI.
Investigate how skills, competencies, credentials, and educational experiences predict educational attainment, employment, earnings growth, productivity, workforce participation, and economic mobility.
Advance research and measurement across competency-based education (CBE) and career and technical education (CTE), and other workforce development pathways, studying how skills are acquired, recognized, rewarded, and translated into educational and labor market opportunities.
Design and validate measures and indicators that translate evidence of human capabilities into trusted signals of readiness and investigate how those signals predict educational attainment, workforce participation, productivity, earnings, and career advancement.
Design and lead research evaluating the development, measurement, and economic value of academic, occupational, and durable skills using quantitative, qualitative,…
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