Lead NLP Data Scientist — Production‑Scale Science AI

1001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 201,000; Full time

Job summary

1001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ, seeks a principal data scientist to own domain-specific content modeling end to end—from eval sets through the pipeline stage that ships results to real users.

You will lead production NLP pipelines, write production-grade Python, and own evaluations in a fast-evolving scientific domain. You will design NLP enrichment pipelines for scientific full-text, compare traditional and LLM-based approaches, and collaborate with editors, product managers, and

Qualifications

• Deep Python production experience.
• Strong NLP background across modern (LLMs, transformers, embeddings, retrieval) and classical approaches.
• Evaluations and cost-aware model comparisons with clear tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Design and build NLP enrichment pipelines that extract entities, classifications, claims, and summaries from scientific full-text at scale.
• Compare NLP approaches to extraction and enrichment against LLM-based approaches and pick the right tool for each task.
• Own evaluation: build golden sets, choose metrics, and tradeoffs between speed, quality, and cost.
• Collaborate with data engineers to orchestrate work in Airflow and Dagster; design reliable pipeline stages.

Skills

Python

NLP

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Job description

1001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ, seeks a principal data scientist to own domain-specific content modeling end to end—from eval sets through the pipeline stage that ships results to real users.

You will lead production NLP pipelines, write production-grade Python, and own evaluations in a fast-evolving scientific domain. You will design NLP enrichment pipelines for scientific full-text, compare traditional and LLM-based approaches, and collaborate with editors, product managers, and