Hiring: AI Software Engineering Lead Company: Elsevier Location: Philadelphia, PA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-15 07:43:11 Target Skills & Keywords : API Design, LLM, Microservices, RAG About the job Required Skills: •Managing and mentoring of six direct reports. •Driving and owning the technical strategy and execution for the CK AI Service, including the design and governance of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows and API expansion. •Improving the delivery velocity, reducing bottlenecks and single points of failure, driving standardization, mentoring, and cross-functional alignment as the platform matures •Establishing a sustainable leadership model to support the planned division and growth of the team. •Collaborating with our Data Science team to help drive product road map and feature design forward. •Elsevier is a renowned global information analytics company that primarily focuses on providing scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research content, tools, and services. It is one of the largest publishers of academic journals and scholarly literature in the world. Qualifications: •Proven ability to lead, mentor, and grow engineering teams, including managing performance, career development, and team health •Established track record of creating high-performing, collaborative team environments and reducing knowledge silos •Demonstrated capacity to remove blockers, manage priorities, and improve delivery velocity across a team •Deep expertise in designing and delivering distributed systems and APIs at scale •Demonstrated capacity to define and execute technical strategies, balancing short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability •Proven ability to identify and eliminate single points of failure and improve system resilience •Hands-on experience designing and implementing retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workflows •Retrieval pipelines and ranking strategies •Demonstrated capacity to govern and standardize AI patterns, including evaluation, observability, and performance optimization Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!