Elsevier

Senior Software Engineer / Senior AI Engineer

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Base Salary

$87k - $144k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build prototypes, proofs of concept, and production-standard agentic AI solutions.
  • Implement and test tool use, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows.
  • Contribute to evaluation, observability, guardrails, and outcome measurement for agentic systems.
  • Integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise workflows and systems through APIs and data pipelines.
  • Maintain code quality and documentation, and create reusable patterns, reference implementations, and starter kits.
  • Identify technical risks and blockers, complete moderately complex bug fixes, and finalize requirements with technical peers.
  • Collaborate with host-function stakeholders to ensure solutions fit real workflows.
  • Support handover and capability-building so solutions remain owned and operable after the squad moves on.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of software engineering experience.
  • Hands-on production experience building LLM-powered applications using RAG, tool-augmented agents, or agentic workflows.
  • Experience with prompt engineering, context management, evaluation, observability, memory, tools, and retrieval for multi-step agent tasks.
  • Experience integrating AI into existing systems through APIs and data pipelines.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Experience with CI/CD, modern SDLC practices, TDD, and code review.
  • Experience working with relational, columnar, and vector stores and sound data-modeling principles.
  • Proficiency in Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL, and relevant AI SDKs.
  • Clear written and verbal communication with technical peers and stakeholders.
  • Ability to instrument solutions and measure usage, productivity, and quality against established baselines.
  • Ability to work autonomously, challenge unclear requirements, and deliver validated outcomes in short, time-boxed cycles.

Benefits

  • Flexible working hours.
  • Comprehensive pension plan.
  • Generous vacation entitlement and optional sabbatical leave.
  • Maternity, paternity, adoption, and family care leave.
  • Personal Choice budget.
  • Internal communities and networks.
  • Employee discounts.
  • Recruitment introduction reward.
  • Global Employee Assistance Program.
  • Study assistance and wellbeing initiatives.
  • The posting lists a U.S. national base pay range of $86,600-$144,400 and an annual incentive bonus; compensation is excluded from this benefits list.
  • Country-specific benefits are available, and workplace accommodations can be requested.
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About Elsevier

10,000+ employees

Elsevier builds scientific and medical information products and analytics platforms for researchers, clinicians, and educators. Its portfolio includes journals and databases such as The Lancet, Cell, ScienceDirect, Scopus, and ClinicalKey, sold primarily via institutional subscriptions, licensing, and open-access publishing fees. Founded in 1880 and headquartered in Amsterdam, Elsevier operates as a business of RELX, serving universities, hospitals, corporations, and government research agencies worldwide.

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