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Senior Data Scientist

🇺🇸 Hybrid - PA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Data Science

🗓️ July 9th, 2025

Jupyter PySpark Python

Edtech.com's Summary

Elsevier is hiring a Senior Data Scientist. In this role, the candidate will lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of NLP solutions for Generative AI evaluation in the healthcare domain, driving innovation to improve patient outcomes. The position involves developing metrics, evaluation frameworks, and production-ready Python packages while collaborating with technology teams to deploy data science components.

Highlights
  • Lead design and conduct experiments to assess AI model performance.
  • Develop metrics, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks for Generative AI in healthcare.
  • Create production-ready Python packages for evaluation pipeline components.
  • Evaluate AI models against healthcare domain standards and integrate data science components.
  • Develop automated evaluation and maintenance tools and implement product performance reporting.
  • Proficiency required in Python, SQL, PySpark, Java, GitLab/GitHub, cloud computing, *nix systems, and Jupyter notebooks.
  • Experience with machine learning algorithms, deep learning, and neural networks is essential.
  • Healthcare domain knowledge is highly desirable.
  • Track record of developing novel code solutions and best practices.
  • Employee benefits include comprehensive health plans, 401(k) with match, wellness programs, family support benefits, and paid leave for volunteering and resource group participation.

Senior Data Scientist Full Description

Senior Data Scientist
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Full time

Are you a data-driven problem solver ready to take your impact to the next level? Join us as a Data Scientist III, where you'll lead complex analytical projects, shape data strategy, and drive innovation that fuels real-world results?

Ready to apply your advanced data science skills to solve high-impact problems and shape the future? 

Elsevier is singularly focused on helping healthcare and health education professionals improve clinical outcomes through evidence-based methods. Our data science team works on designing, building, and maintaining NLP solutions for Generative AI Evaluation of Health and Health Education applications.

About the Role: We are seeking an experienced Data Scientist III to join our team. You will be entrusted with the design, implementation, and maintenance of NLP solutions for Generative AI evaluation.

About the team; This team has crafted advanced data driven solutions to drive innovation in Health Care with the goal being to improve patient outcome.

Responsibilities
  • Designing and conducting experiments to assess model performance
  • Developing metrics, benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks
  • Creating production-ready Python packages for evaluation pipeline components
  • Evaluating AI models against healthcare domain standards
  • Integrating data science components and conduct quality assessments
  • Developing automated evaluation and maintenance tools
  • Collaborating with technology teams for pipeline deployment
  • Implementing and maintaining product performance reporting.
  • Build complex Data solutions from both structured and unstructured data  to drive innovation

Requirements
  • Expertise in both model building as well as retraining existing models. 
  • Proficiency in Python, SQL, PySpark and Java
  • Experience with ML algorithms, deep learning, and neural networks
  • Strong background in GitLab/GitHub and cloud computing
  • Proven experience with *nix systems and Jupyter notebook hubs
  • Healthcare domain knowledge highly desirable
  • Track record of developing novel code solutions and best practices

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:
- Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
- Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
- Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
- Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
- Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
- Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
- Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice
 
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