Principal Data Scientist

Wiley & Sons, Inc.; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meeting-free Fridays

Professional development

Fair, transparent pay

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Wiley & Sons, Inc. in Hoboken, NJ seeks a Principal Data Scientist to own domain-specific content modeling end to end, building NLP enrichment pipelines over millions of scientific articles and delivering production-ready code that users rely on.

You will collaborate with editors, product managers, and engineers, compare NLP approaches, optimize for cost and latency, and ship end-to-end solutions from eval sets to deployment in a fast-evolving market.

Qualifications

• Deep Python. You’ve written it in production, at scale, for years.
• Strong NLP background across modern (LLMs, transformers, embeddings, retrieval) and classical approaches.
• Evaluations and learning from results.
• Habit of comparing approaches and choosing the right one for the task.
• Track record of shipping production systems that deliver value.
• Preferred: Experience with scientific or scholarly text.
• Familiarity with AWS services and data lake patterns.

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 the golden sets in consultation with SMEs and vendors, choose the metrics, and balance speed, quality, and cost.
• Write production-quality Python.
• Manage concurrency and cost for high-volume LLM workloads.
• Structure code that engineers can ship and other data scientists can extend.
• Collaborate with data engineers to orchestrate data pipelines with Airflow and Dagster.
• Design idempotent, retryable, evaluable pipeline stages for reliability at scale.
• Contribute to agentic AI application work: tool-using systems that reason over the enriched corpus.
• Work directly with editors, product managers, and engineers.
• Bring modeling perspective into product decisions, translate stakeholder pushback into concrete modeling work.

Skills

Python

NLP

LLMs

Retrieval

Cost tradeoffs

Production systems

Prompt engineering

Model evaluation

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

SageMaker

Parquet/Iceberg

Job description

Job Description

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role

We’re building the systems that turn one of the world’s largest scientific corpora into research intelligence. That means production NLP + Applied AI pipelines running over millions of journal articles, extracting entities, classifications, claim tuples, and summaries optimized for use by downstream agentic applications. We’re looking for a principal data scientist to own domain-specific content modeling work end to end, from the eval set through the pipeline stage that ships it. You’ll join a small, senior team where data scientists own their models in production. You’ll write the code, own the evaluations, ship the changes, and stay accountable for the outcomes. This is a hands‑on role for someone who wants to see their models through to real users in a rapidly evolving market.

Job 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. That means putting traditional NLP (NER, sequence labeling, classification), embedding-based retrieval, LLM prompting, and fine‑tuned smaller models on the same table, and defending each choice with evaluation, cost, and operational tradeoffs. This is a core part of the job, not an occasional exercise.


• Own evaluation.


• Build the golden sets in consultation with SMEs and vendors, choose the metrics, and make productive tradeoffs between speed, quality, and cost.


• Write production‑quality Python.


• Manage concurrency and cost for high‑volume LLM workloads.


• Structure code that engineers can ship and other data scientists can extend.


• Collaborate with a team of data engineers to orchestrate work in data pipeline and data build tools like Airflow and Dagster.


• Design idempotent, retryable, evaluable pipeline stages that stay reliable when a run fails at scale.


• Contribute to agentic AI application work: tool‑using systems that reason over the enriched corpus, where your NLP and evaluation background will shape how the agent grounds and defends its answers.


• Work directly with editors, product managers, and engineers.


• Bring the modeling perspective into product decisions, and translate stakeholder pushback into concrete modeling work.

Job Requirements

• Deep Python. You’ve written it in production, at scale, for years. You know when to reach for asyncio versus threads versus a queue, and you can explain the tradeoff clearly.


• Strong NLP background across modern (LLMs, transformers, embeddings, retrieval) and classical (NER, classification, sequence labeling) approaches.


• You’ve built evaluations and learned from the results.


• A habit of comparing approaches and choosing the right one for the task.


• You can defend "prompt a large LLM" and "train a small classifier on 2,000 labels" with equal seriousness, back the choice with an eval and a cost estimate, and know what to do when performance drifts.


• A track record of shipping – not just prototypes and papers, but systems that deliver value to real users.


• Preferred: Experience working with scientific or scholarly text.


• Familiarity with AWS (S3, Batch, Lambda, SageMaker) and Parquet or Iceberg data lake patterns.


• Experience running LLMs under real cost and latency budgets in production.


• Some exposure to agentic AI applications: tool use, multi‑step reasoning, guardrails, and evaluation of trajectories rather than single‑turn outputs.

Company Culture

We power infinite possibilities. For more than 200 years, we’ve transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what’s next in science, education, and publishing—creating impact that reaches everywhere. We’re not just observers of progress. We’re the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives. Here, your talent matters.

Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities.

Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact [e-mail] for assistance.

Benefits

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. We offer meeting‑free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programming we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non‑discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

Salary Range: 140,000.00 USD to 200,733.33 USD #LI-JG1

We’re a forward‑thinking organization dedicated to innovation and growth. Our success is built on the diverse talents and perspectives of our team members, who work together to solve complex challenges and create meaningful impact. We foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and professional development.