Senior Data Scientist II

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Amsterdam, NLD
In-Office
59K-99K Annually
Senior level
Information Technology • Legal Tech • Analytics
The Role
Design and deliver production-ready AI, NLP, and generative AI solutions for scientific knowledge discovery. Build LLM-powered workflows, RAG systems, retrieval/ranking/recommendation features, integrate ontologies and metadata, establish evaluation and monitoring, write production Python, and provide technical leadership and mentoring.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you excited by the opportunity to design advanced AI systems that accelerate scientific discovery and unlock knowledge at scale?

Would you enjoy building production-ready solutions using machine learning, NLP, and generative AI to create meaningful impact for researchers and professionals?

About our Team

Our global team support products education electronic health records that introduce students to digital charting and prepare them to document care in today’s modern clinical environment. We have a very stable product that we’ve worked to get to and strive to maintain. Our team values trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality.

About the Role

In this role, you will design and deliver advanced AI, NLP, and generative AI solutions that power knowledge discovery and decision support. You will work with complex scientific data and apply modern machine learning and LLM-based approaches to build scalable, reliable systems with real user impact. You will also collaborate across teams to turn complex challenges into practical, production-ready solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and evaluate advanced AI/ML, NLP, and generative AI solutions for scientific and knowledge-discovery applications.
  • Develop LLM-powered workflows and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for search, summarization, question answering, and evidence-grounded insight generation.
  • Build intelligent retrieval, ranking, recommendation, and decision-support capabilities using modern orchestration frameworks and AI techniques.
  • Integrate scientific metadata, ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge assets into scalable AI workflows.
  • Establish robust evaluation, experimentation, and monitoring frameworks to ensure quality, trust, performance, and reliability.
  • Write production-ready Python code and partner with engineering teams to deploy solutions at scale.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to support high-quality delivery and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Practical experience in data science, AI, machine learning, NLP, information retrieval, or a related quantitative field.
  • Strong hands-on experience building AI/ML, NLP, generative AI, and retrieval-based systems in applied or product-focused environments.
  • Expertise working with LLMs, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, grounding strategies, and responsible AI practices.
  • Strong Python skills and solid machine learning fundamentals.
  • Experience working with large-scale text or content-rich datasets and modern AI/ML frameworks.
  • Experience with RAG, semantic, vector, or hybrid search, along with experimentation and evaluation approaches that measure user impact.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern software engineering practices.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 Pattern

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

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

Primary Location Base Pay Range: NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg) €59,300 - €98,800. This role is covered by the Collective Labor Agreement Publishing Industry.

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Skills Required

  • Practical experience in data science, AI, machine learning, NLP, information retrieval, or related quantitative field.
  • Hands-on experience building AI/ML, NLP, generative AI, and retrieval-based systems in applied or product-focused environments.
  • Expertise working with LLMs, including fine-tuning, prompt engineering, grounding strategies, and responsible AI practices.
  • Strong Python skills and solid machine learning fundamentals.
  • Experience working with large-scale text or content-rich datasets and modern AI/ML frameworks.
  • Experience with RAG, semantic, vector, or hybrid search and associated evaluation/experimentation approaches.
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern software engineering practices.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.

RELX Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about RELX and has not been reviewed or approved by RELX.

  • Retirement Support Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with matching contributions, alongside other financial protections such as life and disability coverage. Tuition reimbursement and share purchase access further broaden the financial value of the package beyond base salary.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous vacation allowances, mental health days, and options like sabbaticals and tiered PTO by tenure. Parental and caregiving leaves are described in detail, reinforcing time-away benefits as a standout component of the overall package.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Wellbeing and lifestyle benefits are supported by offerings such as mental health support (e.g., app access), EAP resources, gym-related perks, and wellness incentives. Flexible working hours and related work-life supports add to the perceived day-to-day value of benefits.

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The Company
Amsterdam
10,001 Employees
Year Founded: 1880

What We Do

RELX is a global provider of information-based analytics for professional and business customers across industries. We help scientists make new discoveries, doctors and nurses improve the lives of patients and lawyers win cases. We prevent online fraud and money laundering, and help insurance companies evaluate and predict risk. Our events enable customers to learn about markets, source products and complete transactions. In short, we enable our customers to make better decisions, get better results and be more productive. We do this by leveraging a deep understanding of our customers to create innovative solutions which combine content and data with analytics and technology in global platforms. RELX serves customers in more than 180 countries and has offices in about 40 countries. It employs approximately 30,000 people of whom almost half are in North America. We operate in four major market segments: Scientific, Technical & Medical; Risk & Business Analytics; Legal; and Exhibitions.

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