Senior Agentic AI Engineer

RX Brasil; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,500,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Group Health Insurance

Group Life Insurance

Long-service awards

New Baby gift

Subsidized food

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior Agentic AI Engineer in Bangalore to build document intelligence capabilities for the Submission products. You will transform manuscripts into structured data, enabling AI-driven features across the Submission and Editorial journey.

The role blends software, data engineering and AI, requiring collaboration with cross-functional teams in a hybrid work model near the Bangalore office. You will work on scalable services leveraging AWS and event-driven architectures.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in Java and Python with Spring Boot experience.
• Willingness to learn additional technologies and tools.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements.
• Familiarity with modern IDEs and refactoring tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy cloud-hosted distributed applications for our next-generation product.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to capture requirements in a fast-moving environment.
• Contribute to architecture decisions to ensure stability and performance.
• Implement enhancements to improve delivery processes.
• Partner with Agile and DevOps teams across the project.

Skills

Java

Python

Spring Boot

Tools

Git

IntelliJ

VS Code

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Senior Agentic AI Engineer

Would you like to help create products to support the sharing of scientific knowledge? Do you enjoy collaborating to solve complex technical problems? This hybrid role is open to candidates based within a commutable distance of our Bangalore office. We value meaningful in-person moments to connect, collaborate, plan and for other key moments.

About the Team

The Submission and Editorial platform is at the heart of Elsevier's publishing ecosystem, supporting millions of interactions between researchers, editors, reviewers, and publishers every year. Our team provides the Document Intelligence capabilities that underpin the Submission product portfolio. Using combination data science models and LLMs, we transform complex, unstructured documents into structured, trusted and reusable data, enabling our products and teams to understand submitted content and use that intelligence to create smarter experiences throughout the Submission and Editorial journey.

About the Role

As a Senior Agentic AI Engineer I'll help build the Document Intelligence capabilities that enable Elsevier's Submission products to understand scientific content at scale. You'll work on services that transform complex, unstructured manuscripts into structured, meaningful information and knowledge through document transformation, metadata extraction, content enrichment, and entity recognition. You'll help turn this intelligence into capabilities that power smarter submission and editorial experiences, from automating traditionally manual processes to enabling content discovery and new AI-driven features across the Submission portfolio. We combine AWS, event-driven architectures, microservices, data science and AI/LLM capabilities to build reliable, secure, and highly scalable Document Intelligence services. You'll work at the intersection of software engineering, data engineering and AI, solving challenging problems around understanding and processing millions of research documents within Elsevier's publishing ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing and deploying applications in a cloud-hosted distributed system to build our next-generation product
• Collaborating with business stakeholders to identify requirements and gather feedback in a fast-moving environment
• Providing input into architectural decisions to ensure stability and performance
• Identifying and implementing enhancements to continually improve our delivery process
• Partnering with cross-functional Agile and DevOps implementation teams

Requirements

• Demonstrate some proficiency in most of these technologies; Java, Python, Spring Boot, with a willingness to learn the others.
• Display some experience with version control system (i.e. Git).
• Enjoy collaborating with team members to create innovative solutions.
• Have experience with a modern IDE (IntelliJ / VS Code) and proficiency in using refactoring tools.
• Be open to discussing and honing approaches for our team to improve our working practices.
• Have some experience with test-driven development and mocking libraries (Jest, Mockito).
• Be familiar with collaborative documentation tools (Jira and Confluence).
• Have some real knowledge of Agile practices and execution (Scrum, Kanban).
• Some familiarity with AI coding tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Codex, Antigravity) is desirable.
• Wanting to learn about Agentic software development.
• Wanting to learn about distributed and event-driven solutions using Kafka and AWS cloud services.
• Be eager to grow your skills and experience.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, family leave and tuition reimbursement, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and long-term goals. 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.

Benefits

• Group Health Insurance Policy (covering self and family)
• Group Life insurance/accident policy
• Generous long-service awards
• New Baby gift
• Subsidized food provided (applies to India- Chennai)
• Casual Leave, Sick Leave, Privilege Leave, Compassionate Leave, Special Sick Leave, Gazetted Public Holiday and Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Free Transport provided to and from the office (applies to India-Chennai)

About Us

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 . We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.