Senior AI Engineer – Agentic AI & RAG Pipelines

Elsevier; New York (NY); On-site; USD 87,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Pension Plan

Generous vacation entitlement and sabb

Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and  -F

Employee Assistance Program (global)

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build AI-powered features within our Embedded Innovation Teams, delivering production-grade agentic solutions aligned with real-world workflows.

You will set technical direction, implement retrieval pipelines and agent workflows, and ensure observability, guardrails, and reusable patterns across functions. Collaboration with host-function stakeholders is essential since the work is embedded in business functions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software engineering with hands-on, production experience building LLM-powered applications.
• Experience building RAG pipelines, tool-augmented agents, and agentic workflows.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL and relevant AI SDKs.

Responsibilities

• Build prototypes and ship AI-powered features to production standards within a defined technical approach.
• Implement and test tool use, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows.
• Contribute to evaluation, observability, and guardrails for agentic systems.
• Integrate AI capabilities into existing enterprise workflows and systems.
• Maintain high code quality and documentation for reuse across functions.

Skills

LLM development

RAG pipelines

Tool-augmented agents

Prompt engineering

Observability

APIs

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

SQL

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

TDD

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build AI-powered features within our Embedded Innovation Teams, delivering production-grade agentic solutions aligned with real-world workflows.

You will set technical direction, implement retrieval pipelines and agent workflows, and ensure observability, guardrails, and reusable patterns across functions. Collaboration with host-function stakeholders is essential since the work is embedded in business functions.