Data Scientist

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience in data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, NLP, statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, or a related quantitative area.
• Experience working with frontier LLMs such as OpenAIs GPTs, Anthropics Claude, and Googles Gemini, including fine-tuning LLMs and/or SLMs.
• Strong Python skills and a habit of writing clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
• A solid grasp of machine learning fundamentals, including supervised and unsupervised learning, feature engineering, model evaluation, model selection, and performance measurement.
• Experience working with structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data, especially large-scale text or content datasets.
• Familiarity with common data science and machine learning tools such as Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, or Matplotlib.
• The ability to translate complex and ambiguous requirements into practical, measurable, data-driven solutions, with strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and attention to quality.
• Clear communication skills, a collaborative approach to working with engineering, product, and business stakeholders, and a genuine interest in building production-ready systems that deliver real user value.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build machine learning, NLP, and generative AI systems for scientific discovery, knowledge extraction, decision support, and intelligent content understanding.
• Work with large-scale, complex, and heterogeneous data, including scientific publications, research datasets, knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxonomies, citations, metadata, and content from every scientific discipline.
• Apply the right technique to each problem, using approaches such as classification, regression, clustering, ranking, feature engineering, deep learning, embeddings, LLMs, retrieval, and generative AI.
• Develop capabilities for semantic search, information retrieval, entity extraction, content classification, recommendation, ranking, summarization, question answering, and evidence-grounded generation.
• Build, evaluate, fine-tune, prompt, and integrate models into robust production systems, while continuously improving quality, relevance, reliability, and user value.
• Write clean, tested, production-quality Python and contribute reusable data science components, packages, and scalable data pipelines for preprocessing, inference, experimentation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
• Support deployment, monitoring, model maintenance, drift detection, automated retraining, and ongoing optimization of data science systems.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, UX, analytics, research, and domain experts, and communicate technical concepts, model behavior, insights, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Technologies:

• AI
• Fine-tuning
• Support
• Machine Learning
• PyTorch
• Python
• TensorFlow
• numpy
• pandas
• UX UI Design

More:

We are a global leader in information and analytics, helping 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. Our global team supports products in education and electronic health records, with a stable product and a culture that values trust, respect, collaboration, agility, and quality. We promote a healthy work/life balance with wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, and we offer flexible working hours. This role is based in London/Oxford with hybrid working. At Elsevier, our work contributes to the worlds grand challenges and a more sustainable future.

last updated 35 week of 2026