AI & Emerging technologies

Senior Software Engineer / Senior AI Engineer

Elsevier

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you will build and ship AI-powered features within an Embedded Innovation Squad, turning internal AI experiments into production-ready solutions. You’ll define technical direction, develop tool use and retrieval pipelines, and integrate AI into enterprise workflows. You’ll maintain quality, observability, and guardrails while collaborating with host-function stakeholders to fit real-world needs. This role offers hands-on autonomy, a path to reusable patterns, and opportunities to influence how AI accelerates customer value.

Pay / Benefits
  • Comprehensive Pension Plan
  • Generous vacation entitlement and sabbatical option
  • Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
  • Personal Choice budget
  • Internal communities and networks
  • Employee discounts
Responsibilities
  • Build prototypes and proofs of concept, delivering agentic AI solutions to production standards
  • Design 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
  • Identify and flag technical risks and blockers early
  • Collaborate with peers to finalize requirements and fix moderately complex bugs
  • Create reusable patterns, reference implementations, and starter kits for cross-team reuse
  • Instrument solutions to measure outcomes against baselines
  • Engage with host-function stakeholders to ensure alignment with real workflows
  • Support handover and capability-building so solutions remain operable after the squad moves on
  • Keep abreast of new technology developments
  • Take on related responsibilities as the squad evolves
Key requirements
  • 3+ years of software engineering experience with hands-on building of LLM-powered applications in production (RAG, tool-augmented agents, or agentic workflows)
  • BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
  • Ability to work autonomously and deliver in time-boxed cycles with validated outcomes
  • Experience with building RAG pipelines, tool-augmented agents, and agentic workflows; familiarity with prompt engineering, context management, evaluation, and observability
  • Understanding of agent memory, tools, and retrieval for multi-step tasks
  • Enterprise integration via APIs and data pipelines
  • Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Delivery practices including CI/CD, modern SDLC, TDD and code review
  • Experience with relational, columnar and vector stores and solid data modeling principles
  • Languages: Python, Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, SQL and relevant AI SDKs
  • Strong written and verbal communication with technical peers and stakeholders
  • Ability to instrument solutions to capture usage, productivity and quality metrics against baselines
  • autonomy
  • clear communication
  • problem-solving
  • LLM-powered applications
  • RAG pipelines
  • tool-augmented agents

Reference: WJ-747_31195413 · Posted 01 Nov 2026, 12:12 PM

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