Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) - Elsevier | Built In Elsevier https://builtin.com/company/elsevier Senior Software Engineer - Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Sorry, this job was removed at 10:19 p.m. (UTC) on Monday, Jun 01, 2026 4 Locations In-Office or Remote 95K-172K Annually Artificial Intelligence • Healthtech • Information Technology • Other • Analytics The Role Job title: Senior Software Engineer II – Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) System About the role, we are seeking an experienced engineer to work with a team to build and support a healthcare centered production-scale RAG system that combines document retrieval with response generation to deliver accurate, context-aware answers. This engineer we be expected to design, implement, and operate end-to-end RAG pipelines— LLM interaction, API creation, and high-performance, secure delivery of knowledge-grounded capabilities. You will collaborate with data engineers, platform teams, and product partners to ship reliable, scalable, and observable systems. About the team; This collaborative team is entrusted with building the Next Generation Health Solutions through the utilization of cutting-edge technology. Role and responsibilities Architecting, implementing, testing, and operating end-to-end RAG workflows: Ingesting and normalizing documents from diverse sources Generating and managing embeddings; index and query vector databasesRetrieve relevant passages, apply reranking or fusion strategies, and feed prompts to LLMs Building scalable, low-latency services and APIs (Python preferred; other languages acceptable) and ensure production-grade reliability (monitoring, tracing, alerting) Integrating with vector databases and embedding pipelines and optimize for latency, throughput, and cost Designing and implementing ML Ops workflows: model/version management, experiments, feature stores, CI/CD for ML-enabled services, rollback plans Developing rob