AI/ML Solution Architect

AI/ML Solution Architect Education & Assessment Platforms About Pratham International Pratham International is a US 501(c)(3) established to support learning innovations for children and youth in contexts across the globe. We enable the adaptation and spread of proven and scalable education solutions pioneered in India by Pratham Education Foundation to contexts across the global south through programming and technical assistance tailored to local realities. Today, Pratham innovations reach millions of children annually through partnerships across ~30 countries. Through the Pratham Shah PraDigi Innovation Centre (PraDigi), Pratham International also seeks to create technology innovations for low-resource communities, and support models aimed at learning for school, work, and life for children and youth. We work on several cutting-edge projects in the domain of Generative AI, Automatic Speech Recognition, and Natural Language Processing. The team’s innovative technology products include the PadhAI: Reading Assessment App, which uses advanced speech recognition to evaluate children’s reading fluency in 8 Indian languages and 6 global languages; Anytime Testing Machine (ATM), an AI-enabled question generation and grading system that allows learners to be assessed on any topic, anytime; and a suite of AI-powered chatbots designed for diverse learning contexts: from early childhood care, to youth employment readiness, and OCR-based analysis tools that digitize and assess student work at scale. At Pratham International, we build for the long term. Whether it’s ensuring products are truly accessible across rural India and the global south through languages, building datasets to ensure context and accuracy for products, or gathering feedback from the field. Backed by partners like Google.org, Anthropic, and the Gates Foundation, we are committed to building digital public goods that ensure every child is in school and learning well. Role Overview About the work We design and deliver AI systems that governments and large education programmes can actually run: curriculum-aligned item generation, paper assembly, handwriting OCR, rubric grading, and teacher-in-the-loop review. The work is already live as practice assessment in India and is being built as a national exam platform in Rwanda, with further country programmes behind it. We are hiring a Solution Architect who sits between discovery and delivery. You will turn messy workshop notes and ministry requirements into architecture a team can build, secure, cost, and operate — RAG and multi-agent systems, LLM-as-judge pipelines, and the cloud/LLMOps layer underneath. You will Own solution design from first workshop to a delivery-ready blueprint (services, data stores, trust boundaries, cost, ops). Architect LLM pipelines: generation, retrieval over curriculum knowledge graphs, standards/duplication/quality judges, constraint-based paper assembly. Design human + AI workflows with audit,…