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We work problem-first rather than tool-first, directly inside segment and function teams, improving the internal workflows that help our people deliver better outcomes for customers, faster.\nAbout the role:\nAs a Senior AI Engineer, you will build and ship AI-powered features as part of a cross-functional Innovation Squad, working inside a business function. You will deliver the set technical direction to production standard, working autonomously within a defined problem, building and testing tool use, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows, integrating AI capabilities into enterprise systems, and contributing to evaluation, observability, and guardrails.\nYou will hold a high bar on code quality, flag risks and blockers early, and work alongside host-function stakeholders to make sure what you build fits real workflows, not assumed ones. You'll also support handover and capability-building so the solution is owned and operable after the squad moves on.\nKey Responsibilities:\nBuilding prototypes and proofs of concept and ship agentic AI solutions to production standards within a defined technical approach.\nImplementing and testing tool use, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows.\nContributing to evaluation, observability, and guardrails for agentic systems.\nIntegrating AI capabilities into existing enterprise workflows and systems.\nMaintaining high code quality and documentation so patterns can be reused.\nFlagging technical risks and blockers early.\nInterface with technical peers to finalize requirements and complete moderately complex bug fixes.\nBuilding solutions for reuse, contributing to patterns, reference implementations and starter kits so work done in one function can be picked up by another.\nImplementing solutions to capture outcome data against baselines.\nWork alongside host-function stakeholders to ensure the build fits real workflows, not assumed ones.\nSupporting handover and capability-building in the host function so the solution is owned and operable after the squad moves on.\nRequirements:\n Engineering experience: 3+ years in software engineering, with hands-on experience building LLM-powered applications in production (RAG, tool-augmented agents, or agentic workflows).\nWays of working: Comfortable working autonomously within a defined problem and pushing back when something doesn't make sense, and delivering in short, time-boxed cycles where validated outcomes matter more than perfect solutions.\nAgentic AI / LLMs: Building RAG pipelines, tool-augmented agents, and agentic workflows; familiar with prompt engineering, context management, evaluation, and observability.\nAgent fundamentals: Understands how agents use memory, tools, and retrieval to complete multi-step tasks.\nEnterprise integration: Integrating AI into existing systems via APIs and data pipelines.\nCloud: AWS, Azure or GCP.\nDelivery: CI/CD, modern SDLC, TDD and code review.\nData: Working with relational, columnar and vector stores, grounded in sound data-modelling principles.\nLanguages: Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL and relevant AI SDKs.\nCommunication: Clear written and verbal communication with technical peers and stakeholders.\nMeasurement: Instrumenting solutions to capture usage, productivity and quality metrics against established baselines.\nWhy Join Us?\nJoin our team and contribute to a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence. If you are ready to advance your career and make a significant impact, we encourage you to apply.\nWork in a way that works for you\nWe promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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.\nWorking 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.\nWorking for you\nWe know that your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:\nComprehensive Pension Plan\nGenerous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave\nMaternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave\nPersonal Choice budget\nInternal communities and networks\nVarious employee discounts\nRecruitment introduction reward\nEmployee Assistance Program (global)\nAbout the business-\nA 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.\n\nU.S. National Base Pay Range: $86,600 - $144,400. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates.\n\nThis job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.\n\nWe know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Clickhereto access benefits specific to your location.\nWe are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.\nCriminals may pose as recruiters asking for money or personal information. We never request money or banking details from job applicants. 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