Learning Engineer

Description

Southern New Hampshire University is a team of innovators. World changers. Individuals who believe in progress with purpose. Since 1932, our people-centered strategy has defined us — and helped us grow a team that now serves over 180,000 learners worldwide.

Our mission to transform lives is made possible by talented people who bring diverse industry experience, backgrounds and skills to the university. And today, we're ready to expand our reach. All we need is you.

The Learning Engineer is responsible for developing and evaluating innovative solutions to complex learning challenges and opportunities across SNHU's Global Campus offerings. Specifically, this position focuses on emerging educational technologies, assessment techniques, student engagement strategies, academic research, research/experimentation design, and evolving models for digital education. Working collaboratively across numerous internal departments, the Learning Engineer leads research, prototyping, and evaluation efforts to explore new ideas, develop proof-of-concept solutions, and assess their potential for broader institutional adoption in support of SNHU's mission to deliver affordable, accessible, and high-quality education.

The position requires broad expertise in instructional design, educational technology, assessment, learning sciences, user experience design, learning management systems, research methods, and the application of evidence-based practices to educational innovation.

At SNHU, you'll have the option to work remotely in the following states:
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

We ask that our remote employees have access to a reliable internet connection and a dedicated, properly equipped workspace that is free of distractions. Employees must reside in, and work from, one of the above approved states.

• Design and develop learning solutions drawing from research-based efforts in learning science and educational technology.
• Manage complex design projects independently with small, agile teams.
• Design rigorous testing approaches for the evaluation of strategic initiatives, including test protocols, evaluation instruments, measurement frameworks, hypotheses, success criteria, and decision points.
• Partner with prototype teams as an embedded contributor to translate emerging instructional approaches and design challenges into structured experiments, testable iterations, and production-ready recommendations.
• Convert applied research and emerging literature on AI, assessment, student engagement, and learning science into pilot designs, test plans, and operational playbooks that teams can implement directly.
• Apply methodological rigor to pilot and prototype testing so that results are defensible, reusable, and actionable for decisions about scale, iteration, or discontinuation.
• Integrate research-based practices from diverse populations of learners to ensure solutions are learner-centered and support personalization.
• Analyze faculty needs across various faculty models to support the teaching and facilitation of the learning solution.
• Integrate robust, well-aligned, and valid assessment methods across all aspects of the learning solution.
• Develop technical specifications and use cases for leveraging appropriate technology to support learning.
• Collaborate with user testing teams to evaluate the effectiveness of learning…