Principal Data Scientist (NLP + Applied AI)

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

We're building the systems that turn one of the world's largest scientific corpora into research intelligence. That means production NLP pipelines running over millions of journal articles, extracting entities, classifications, claim tuples, and summaries optimized for use by downstream agentic applications. We're looking for a senior data scientist to own domain-specific content modeling work end to end, from the eval set through the pipeline stage that ships it. You'll join a small, senior team where data scientists own their models in production. You'll write the code, own the evaluations, ship the changes, and stay accountable for the outcomes. This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to see their models through to real users in a rapidly evolving market.

What you'll do:

• Design and build NLP enrichment pipelines that extract entities, classifications, claims, and summaries from scientific full-text at scale.
• Compare NLP approaches to extraction and enrichment against LLM-based approaches, and pick the right tool for each task.
• Own evaluation. Build the golden sets in consultation with SMEs and vendors, choose the metrics, and make productive tradeoffs between speed, quality, and cost.
• Write production-quality Python.
• Manage concurrency and cost for high-volume LLM workloads.
• Collaborate with a team of data engineers to orchestrate work in data pipeline and data build tools like Airflow and Dagster.
• Contribute to agentic AI application work: tool-using systems that reason over the enriched corpus.
• Work directly with editors, product managers, and engineers.

What you'll bring:

• Deep Python experience in production, at scale.
• Strong NLP background across modern and classical approaches.
• A track record of shipping systems that deliver value to real users.

Nice to have:

• Experience working with scientific or scholarly text.
• Familiarity with AWS and data lake patterns.
• Experience running LLMs under real cost and latency budgets in production.

Why us:

We publish some of the world's most-read research, applying modern AI to a corpus of trusted scientific knowledge. Researchers will use the systems you build here to move faster and get closer to the answers they came for. That's the work: from knowledge to impact. We power infinite possibilities.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable laws.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package.