Senior Data Scientist II

Elsevier B.V.
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence
Cloud Computing
Decision Support Systems
Information Retrieval
Python
Machine Learning
Metadata
Natural Language Processing
TensorFlow
Software Engineering
Large Language Models
Prompt Engineering
Electronic Medical Records
Generative AI
Question Answering
Kubernetes

Job description

Our global team support products education electronic health records that introduce students to digital charting and prepare them to document care in today's modern clinical environment. We have a very stable product that we've worked to get to and strive to maintain. Our team values trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality., In this role, you will design and deliver advanced AI, NLP, and generative AI solutions that power knowledge discovery and decision support. You will work with complex scientific data and apply modern machine learning and LLM-based approaches to build scalable, reliable systems with real user impact. You will also collaborate across teams to turn complex challenges into practical, production-ready solutions., * Design, build, and evaluate advanced AI/ML, NLP, and generative AI solutions for scientific and knowledge-discovery applications.

  • Develop LLM-powered workflows and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for search, summarization, question answering, and evidence-grounded insight generation.
  • Build intelligent retrieval, ranking, recommendation, and decision-support capabilities using modern orchestration frameworks and AI techniques.
  • Integrate scientific metadata, ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge assets into scalable AI workflows.
  • Establish robust evaluation, experimentation, and monitoring frameworks to ensure quality, trust, performance, and reliability.
  • Write production-ready Python code and partner with engineering teams to deploy solutions at scale.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to support high-quality delivery and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Practical experience in data science, AI, machine learning, NLP, information retrieval, or a related quantitative field.
  • Strong hands-on experience building AI/ML, NLP, generative AI, and retrieval-based systems in applied or product-focused environments.
  • Expertise working with LLMs, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, grounding strategies, and responsible AI practices.
  • Strong Python skills and solid machine learning fundamentals.
  • Experience working with large-scale text or content-rich datasets and modern AI/ML frameworks.
  • Experience with RAG, semantic, vector, or hybrid search, along with experimentation and evaluation approaches that measure user impact.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern software engineering practices.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.

Benefits & conditions

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

About the company

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world. Together, we create possibilities. Join us.

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