Senior AI Engineer — Production-Ready Agentic AI

RELX International; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 87,000 - 144,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous vacation entitlement

Pension plan

Sabbatical leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join an Embedded Innovation Squad. You will build and ship AI-powered features inside enterprise systems, delivering production-grade AI capabilities, including retrieval pipelines, agent workflows, and observability considerations.

You will ensure code quality, collaborate with host-function stakeholders, and contribute reusable patterns across functions. The role emphasizes autonomy, problem-solving, and rapid delivery in a cross-functional setting.

Qualifications

• Engineering experience: 3+ years in software engineering with hands-on building of LLM-powered applications in production.
• Experience with RAG pipelines, tool-augmented agents, or agentic workflows.
• Comfort delivering in short time-boxed cycles with validated outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Building prototypes and proofs of concept and ship agentic AI solutions to production standards within a defined technical approach.
• Implementing and testing tool use, retrieval pipelines, and agent workflows.
• Contributing to evaluation, observability, and guardrails for agentic systems.
• Integrating AI capabilities into existing enterprise workflows and systems.
• Maintaining high code quality and documentation so patterns can be reused.
• Flagging technical risks and blockers early.
• Interface with technical peers to finalize requirements and complete moderately complex bug fixes.
• Building solutions for reuse and starter kits for cross-function use.
• Implementing solutions to capture outcome data against baselines.
• Support and enable handover in the host function so the solution remains operable.

Skills

LLM-powered apps

RAG pipelines

Agentic workflows

Prompt engineering

Observability

CI/CD

Tools

AI SDKs

APIs

Job description

Elsevier is seeking a Senior AI Engineer to join an Embedded Innovation Squad. You will build and ship AI-powered features inside enterprise systems, delivering production-grade AI capabilities, including retrieval pipelines, agent workflows, and observability considerations.

You will ensure code quality, collaborate with host-function stakeholders, and contribute reusable patterns across functions. The role emphasizes autonomy, problem-solving, and rapid delivery in a cross-functional setting.