RELX
RELX
RELX develops information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers worldwide. Its products combine specialized content, data, and technology to support better decisions and stronger outcomes across Risk, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Legal, and Exhibitions. RELX also operates across consulting, healthcare, and insurance-related markets, helping organizations improve productivity, manage risk, advance research, support legal work, and conduct more effective business transactions.

Senior Data Scientist, AI and Scientific Search – RELX | Amsterdam Onsite

Lead production AI, LLM, and knowledge discovery systems for Elsevier’s scientific research and healthcare information platform. Build reliable search, retrieval, and decision-support capabilities for complex scientific content.

Description

  • Lead the design, development, and deployment of advanced AI, machine learning, NLP, and generative AI solutions
  • Create LLM applications, semantic search, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, and scientific knowledge discovery systems
  • Improve intelligent research and decision-support products with embeddings, retrieval pipelines, prompt engineering, knowledge graphs, ontologies, citation networks, and scientific content
  • Develop evaluation, experimentation, and monitoring approaches for AI and search systems
  • Measure relevance, grounding, hallucination detection, model performance, reliability, scalability, cost, and user impact
  • Partner with engineering, product, research, and subject-matter experts to bring AI solutions into production
  • Help shape technical strategy and product direction
  • Coach data scientists while advancing responsible AI, experimentation, and continuous improvement
  • Direct complex AI and data science programmes from initial concept through production

Requirements

  • Substantial experience applying data science, machine learning, AI, NLP, information retrieval, and statistical methods to scalable production systems
  • An advanced degree or equivalent practical expertise in a quantitative discipline
  • Strong hands-on capability in machine learning, deep learning, large language models, generative AI, semantic search, RAG, embeddings, ranking, and AI evaluation
  • Proficiency in Python and established data science tools and frameworks
  • Background delivering production-quality software with large structured and unstructured datasets
  • Experience deploying systems with modern cloud, software engineering, and MLOps practices
  • Experience with Python, SQL, object-oriented programming, testing, CI/CD, DevOps, APIs, databases, Git, Jira, GitHub, and GitLab
  • Experience using Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, LangChain, Databricks, Spark, vector databases, AWS or Azure, MLflow, and Kubeflow
  • Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and leadership abilities
  • Ability to turn complex business needs into scalable AI solutions, guide technical decisions, mentor colleagues, and deliver measurable business value

Benefits

  • Wellbeing support
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Shared parental leave
  • Study assistance
  • Sabbatical opportunities
  • Continued learning and development opportunities
  • Benefits that vary by country
  • Accommodation or adjustment support throughout the hiring process

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