Senior NLP Data Scientist - Applied AI for Research Intelligence

7741 WILEY APAC SERVICES LLP; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Wiley is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to own domain-specific content modeling for research intelligence. You will design NLP pipelines that extract entities, classifications, claims, and summaries from scientific full-text at scale, comparing traditional NLP with LLM-based methods and defending your choices with evaluations and cost estimates.

You will ship production-grade Python, manage high-volume workloads, and collaborate with data engineers to build robust data pipelines that enable

Qualifications

• Production Python in large-scale NLP systems.
• Strong experience with modern NLP (LLMs, transformers) and retrieval.
• Ability to evaluate approaches and justify choices with metrics and cost.

Responsibilities

• Design and build NLP enrichment pipelines from full-text at scale.
• Compare NLP approaches vs LLM-based methods and justify tool choice.
• Own evaluation sets and metrics to balance speed, quality, and cost.
• Write production-grade Python and manage high-volume LLM workloads.
• Collaborate with data engineers to orchestrate workflows using Airflow/Dagster.
• Contribute to agentic AI applications and system-level decisions.

Skills

Deep Python

NLP expertise (LLMs, transformers, Emb

Classic NLP (NER, classification, seq.

Model evaluation & tradeoffs

Production-grade software

Collaboration with data engineers

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Batch

AWS Lambda

SageMaker

Parquet

Iceberg

Job description

Wiley is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to own domain-specific content modeling for research intelligence. You will design NLP pipelines that extract entities, classifications, claims, and summaries from scientific full-text at scale, comparing traditional NLP with LLM-based methods and defending your choices with evaluations and cost estimates.

You will ship production-grade Python, manage high-volume workloads, and collaborate with data engineers to build robust data pipelines that enable