Senior MLOps

Job Title: ML Engineer – Research Products for Academic, Government and Scientific, Technical and Medical Journals 
Location: Amsterdam (Hybrid) 
Department: Data Science A&G and STMJ 
Reports to: Manager, Data Science 

About the Role

Join the team that powers Elsevier’s research platforms—Scopus/Scopus AI, ScienceDirect/ScienceDirect AI, and journal submission & peer review workflows. You will bridge Data Science and Engineering to turn experimental NLP/IR/GenAI models into secure, reliable, and scalable services. Our systems operate over one of the world’s largest scholarly corpora, so you’ll work on AI-based features (GenAI, Agentic AI, RAG, etc.) search/ranking quality, and knowledge graph aware retrieval while enforcing content rights and editorial confidentiality.

About our Team

This team’s mission is transforming data into actionable insights. This role is perfect for those who thrive in a dynamic environment and are passionate about leveraging their data expertise to influence decision-making in the research domain.

Key Responsibilities 

ML & LLM Engineering, Search and Recommendation Engines 

• Automate and orchestrate machine learning workflows across major cloud and AI platforms (AWS, Azure, Databricks, and foundation model APIs such as OpenAI) 
• Maintain and version model registries and artifact stores to ensure reproducibility and governance 
• Develop and manage  CI/CD for ML, including automated data validation, model testing, and deployment. 
• Implement ML Engineering solutions using popular MLOps platforms such as AWS SageMaker, MLflow, Azure ML. 
• End-end custom Sagemaker pipelines for recommendation systems 
• Design and implement the engineering components of GAR+RAG systems (e.g., query interpretation and reflection, chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, semantic search), manage prompt libraries, guardrails and structured output for LLMs hosted on Bedrock/SageMaker or self-hosted  
• Design and implement ML pipelines that utilize Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr, vector DBs, and graph DBs  
• Build evaluation pipelines: offline IR metrics (NDCG, MAP, MRR), LLM quality metrics (faithfulness, grounding), and A/B testing. 
• Optimize infrastructure costs through monitoring, scaling strategies, and efficient resource utilization 
• Stay current with the latest GAI research, NLP and RAG and apply the state-of-the-art in our experiments and systems 

Collaboration 

• Partner with Subject-Matter Experts, Product Managers,  Data Scientists and Responsible AI experts to translate business problems into cutting edge data science solutions 
• Collaborate and interface with Operations Engineers who deploy and run production infrastructure. 

Requirements

• 4+ years in ML Engineering, MLOps platforms, shipping ML or search/GenAI systems to production. 
• Strong Python; Java, and/or Scala experience will be considered a plus 
• Experience with statistical analysis, machine learning theory and natural language processing 
• Hands-on experience with major cloud vendor solutions  (AWS, Azure and/or Google) 
• Search/vector/graph technologies (e.g., Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr//Neo4j). 
• Experience in evaluating LLM models 
• Background with scholarly publishing workflows, bibliometrics, or citation graphs 
• A strong understanding of the Data Science Life Cycle including feature engineering, model training, and evaluation metrics 
• Familiarity with ML frameworks, e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, PySpark 
• Experience with large scale data processing systems, e.g., Spark 

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working for you

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Dutch Share Purchase Plan
• Annual Profit Share Bonus
• Comprehensive Pension Plan
• Home, office or commuting allowance
• Generous vacation entitlement and option for sabbatical leave
• Maternity, Paternity, Adoption and Family Care leave
• Flexible working hours
• Personal Choice budget
• Variety of online training courses and career roadshows
• Wellbeing programs and gym facility in the office
• Internal communities and networks
• Various employee discounts
• Recruitment introduction reward
• Work from anywhere
• Employee Assistance Program (global)
• Annual Event

About the business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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