Principal Software Engineer-Agentic AI

Elsevier; Maryland Heights (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country specific benefits

Job summary

Elsevier seeks a senior AI architect to lead the design and development of autonomous agentic AI systems that tackle complex business problems. You will architect scalable, LLM-powered solutions with guardrails and mentor engineering teams while steering technical strategy.

The role requires deep expertise in LangChain, RAG, vector databases, and enterprise-scale integration. You will collaborate across product and engineering to deliver production-grade AI capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience designing agentic AI systems including tool-augmented agents and orchestration frameworks like LangChain
• Deep knowledge of LLMs, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), vector databases, and enterprise-scale integrations
• Strong technical leadership and ability to mentor engineering teams

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of autonomous agentic AI systems to solve complex business problems.
• Architect scalable LLM-powered solutions with production-grade guardrails and robust observability.
• Mentor engineering teams and drive the technical strategy for AI initiatives.

Job description

Lead the design and development of autonomous agentic AI systems, multi-step reasoning agents, and AI copilots to solve complex business problems. Architect scalable LLM-powered solutions, implement production-grade guardrails, and mentor engineering teams while driving technical strategy.

Requirements

Must have extensive experience designing and building agentic AI systems, including tool-augmented agents and orchestration frameworks like LangChain. Requires deep knowledge of LLMs, RAG, vector databases, and the ability to integrate AI capabilities into enterprise-scale software.

Key Skills

Agentic AI, Large Language Models, LangChain, OpenAI APIs, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Prompt Engineering, Vector Databases, Function Calling, AI System Architecture, Machine Learning, Software Architecture, Technical Leadership, Responsible AI, Embeddings, AI Orchestration Frameworks, System Observability

Benefits

Annual incentive bonus, Country specific benefits