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The Language Technologies Institute (LTI) at Carnegie Mellon University is a world-renowned research and education hub at the forefront of natural language processing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction. Established within the School of Computer Science, LTI pioneers innovative approaches to understanding, processing, and generating human language in both written and spoken forms.
The Curriculum Developer serves as the academic implementation lead and pedagogical architect for the certificate, ensuring that the individual courses form a coherent, integrated, and high-quality educational experience. Working closely with the Faculty Certificate Director, Faculty Course Directors, Adjunct Preceptors, CMU Online, and the Certificate Operations Manager, this role provides continuity as instructors, technologies, and course offerings evolve. The Curriculum Developer is responsible for curriculum integration, instructional quality, online pedagogy, and continuous improvement.
Core Responsibilities
Curriculum Integration: Ensure coherence across courses; Align learning objectives, prerequisites, and assessment philosophy; Eliminate unnecessary overlap while identifying curricular gaps; Maintain curriculum roadmap.
Course Development: Develop detailed course structures; Design assignments and projects; Develop laboratories and instructional materials; Coordinate assessment design; Support online pedagogy appropriate for professional learners.
Annual Curriculum Refresh: Coordinate annual updates by reviewing advances in the field, incorporating new tools and models, updating laboratories, refreshing case studies, replacing obsolete technologies, recommending curriculum improvements to Faculty Course Directors.
CMU Online Coordination: Serve as the primary liaison with CMU Online by coordinating: video production, recording schedules, instructional design, accessibility, multimedia development, Learning Management System organization and publishing.
Preceptor Support: Provide instructional continuity by onboarding new Adjunct Preceptors, preparing instructor guides, coordinating teaching materials, ensuring consistency across offerings, supporting integration of industry case studies.
Quality Assurance: Prior to each offering, review instructional materials, validate laboratories and software environments, verify assignments and grading rubrics, ensure all instructional assets function correctly, coordinate revisions based on student feedback.
Continuous Improvement: Analyze course evaluations, review learning analytics, identify opportunities for improvement, recommend instructional innovations, coordinate certificate-wide enhancements.
Cross-Certificate Coordination: Collaborate with other Certificate Curriculum Developers to identify opportunities for shared courses, harmonize prerequisites, maximize reuse of instructional assets, maintain consistency across the LTI certificate ecosystem.
Adaptability, excellence, and passion are vital qualities within Carnegie Mellon University. We are in search of a team member who can effectively interact with a varied population of internal and external partners at a high level of integrity. We are looking for someone who shares our values and who will support the mission of the university through their work.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 3 to 5 years of operating systems administrative experience including experience with Python, Large Language Models (LLM) (prompt development, pretraining, finetuning, and RLHF), software development and model deployment on cloud platforms such as AWS.
- Previous experience in designing coursework and/or teaching is preferred.
- A combination of education and proven experience from which comparable knowledge is demonstrated may be considered.
Requirements:
- Successful completion of a pre-employment background check
Additional Information:
- Sponsorship: Applicants for this position must be currently legally authorized to work for CMU in the United States. CMU will not sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this opportunity. Carnegie Mellon is not a qualifying employer for the STEM OPT benefit: only the 12-month OPT may be used to work at Carnegie Mellon
Joining the CMU team opens the door to an array of exceptional benefits.
Benefits eligible employees enjoy a wide array of benefits including comprehensive medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance as well as a generous retirement savings program with employer contributions. Unlock your potential with tuition benefits, take well-deserved breaks with ample paid time off and observed holidays, and rest easy with life and accidental death and disability insurance.
Additional perks include a free Pittsburgh Regional Transit bus pass, access to our Family Concierge Team to help navigate childcare needs, fitness center access, and much more!
For a comprehensive overview of the benefits available, explore our Benefits page.
At Carnegie Mellon, we value the whole package when extending offers of employment. Beyond credentials, we evaluate the role and responsibilities, your valuable work experience, and the knowledge gained through education and training. We appreciate your unique skills and the perspective you bring. Your journey with us is about more than just a job; it’s about finding the perfect fit for your professional growth and personal aspirations.
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Location
Pittsburgh, PAJob Function
Software/Applications Development/EngineeringPosition Type
Staff – Fixed Term (Fixed Term)Full Time/Part time
Full timePay Basis
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 3 to 5 years of operating systems administrative experience
- Experience with Python
- Experience with large language models, including prompt development, pretraining, fine-tuning, and RLHF
- Experience with software development and model deployment on cloud platforms such as AWS
- Currently legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship
- Successful completion of a pre-employment background check
- Experience designing coursework and/or teaching
Carnegie Mellon University Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Carnegie Mellon University and has not been reviewed or approved by Carnegie Mellon University.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout, with automatic employer contributions to a TIAA-administered plan at 8% of base salary (and 9.78% for 9‑month academic appointments), plus optional employee deferrals. Vesting after three years is clearly specified, which helps set expectations for long-term value.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support is strengthened by 100% paid parental leave for six weeks and 100% paid maternity leave for 6–8 weeks (delivery-type dependent), effective July 1, 2024. Childcare support is also referenced through a Cyert Center subsidy up to $5,000 per family, alongside no-cost EAP access.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits include free Pittsburgh Regional Transit access and access to fitness classes and facilities, adding recurring non-cash value to the overall package. Pittsburgh’s relatively affordable cost of living can further increase the perceived adequacy of a given salary compared with higher-cost coastal hubs.
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