Lead Psychometrician

Job Overview

Cambium Assessment is a leading provider of online assessments that shape the educational outcomes for millions of students. We are pleased to share that we are hiring a new Lead Psychometrician for our team. The Lead Psychometrician will provide oversight of the technical quality of educational assessment and analysis activities.

Location: Must reside in USA

• Drive technical operational and research projects.
• Plans, coordinates, and performs statistical analysis for basic and/or segments of complex project or work assignments.
• Works autonomously on most phases of statistical and/or psychometric analysis and provides guidance to less experienced psychometricians.
• Provides guidance and oversight to project staff on technical aspects of their work.
• Represents organization's position on technical issues to clients, external boards and panels, professional associations, and other agencies.
• Accountable for basic and complex statistical design and analysis decisions such as variance estimations (weighting), sample design, statistical modeling, and psychometrics.
• Ensures quality control of deliverables.
• Designs, develops and documents technical and operational procedures and statistical guidelines for assigned area.
• Applies advanced knowledge of statistical procedures, psychometric methods and their applications and statistical programming (preferentially R).

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Education Measurement, Psychometrics, Psychological Measurement, or related field with an emphasis on quantitative analysis or psychometrics.
• Advanced training in psychometric research and statistics including item response theory, scaling and equating, Monte Carlo methods, sample design and computer programming.
• At least 8 years of increasingly responsible professional experience, including experience with assessment systems, sampling theory and item response theory.
• Ability to work effectively as a member of a team in a consulting environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

When you work with Cambium Assessment, you’ll be helping to design and build inspiring solutions that make a real impact on the online testing industry, as well as the educators and students we support.

• Advanced computer-adaptive algorithms
• Mobile support of user interfaces
• Learning management systems with social media features
• Universally accessible user interfaces
• Machine scorable items

In the 2024 school year, we delivered more than 126 million online tests, and successfully supported peak testing volumes exceeding 1.5 million simultaneous test takers. We have the most advanced features of any online testing system, and we continue to push boundaries to improve student performance measurement and enabling educators with actionable insights to drive better overall educational outcomes for our students.

To learn more about our organization and the exciting work we do, visit

Our Remote First approach gives employees the flexibility and trust they need to effectively balance work with life. It creates a culture in which all employees are valued and where success is measured in results. It allows us to work collaboratively, inclusively and for greater positive impact, regardless of our individual locations.

If you will be working remotely, either occasionally or on a permanent basis, you must have a reliable internet connection through a cable or fiber‑optic broadband service with minimum speeds of 10 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload.

The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in video‑based interviews during the recruiting process and ongoing virtual meetings with their camera on, as part of their role. To maintain confidentiality and ensure a fair evaluation process, the use of note‑taking tools, reference materials, or AI‑powered tools (including generative AI, language models, or similar technologies) during interviews or other selection activities is prohibited unless prior written approval has been obtained from the People Experience team.

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