About Silverchair

Silverchair is the premier independent platform partner for scholarly and professional publishers, dedicated to expanding the reach of the world’s most valuable knowledge. By connecting creators, publishers, and users, we amplify the impact of scholarship and enhance the accessibility of critical information. Our global teams build, maintain, and innovate platforms across the publishing lifecycle, facilitating submission, peer review, hosting, dissemination, and impact measurement.

The Silverchair Platform hosts critical research content from such prestigious publishers as Oxford University Press, the American Medical Association, and McGraw Hill, comprising more than 12 million articles and 97k books. ScholarOne Manuscripts is the world's leading scholarly workflow management platform, processing over 3 million manuscripts annually for 9,000+ journal sites and serving 1.1 million monthly active users. ScholarOne Conferences streamlines the academic conference lifecycle for 135+ conferences annually, supporting scholarly publishers and associations worldwide.

Silverchair is a remote-first organization with Silverchairians living and working in over ten countries supporting our clients and operations throughout the globe.

DEI Statement

At Silverchair, we celebrate and embrace diversity in all its forms. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment from the moment you consider joining our team. We actively encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply, believing that a variety of perspectives and experiences enriches our community, drives innovation, and strengthens our impact.

Equity and inclusion are at the core of our hiring practices, and we strive to build a team that reflects a broad spectrum of cultures, experiences, and viewpoints. We are particularly committed to increasing representation from groups historically underrepresented in technology careers. Your unique experiences and perspectives are not just welcomed but are integral to our collective success. Join us in our mission to create a culture that unites and brings out the best in all of us.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion at Silverchair.

Overview:

We're looking for a Senior AI Engineer to help shape the next generation of AI-powered tools for researchers and publishers. You'll work on external-facing products that leverage large language models, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and machine learning to surface and vet scholarly content in smarter, more intuitive ways.

This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll design and build systems that operate at scale, integrate with frontier AI models, and directly impact how researchers interact with scientific knowledge.

Why Silverchair:

Scientific research drives human progress—but only if it can be found, trusted, and used. The systems that connect researchers to knowledge matter enormously, and they're being transformed by AI.

Your work on internal systems directly enables the products we build for the research community:

• Research discovery: Our tools help researchers find relevant work faster, surface unexpected connections, and stay current in rapidly evolving fields

• Research integrity: We build systems that support rigorous peer review and help maintain trust in the scientific record

• Access and equity: We're making scholarly content more accessible and usable for researchers everywhere

The faster and smarter our teams can work, the faster we can deliver on that mission. This role is about building the AI-powered infrastructure that multiplies what Silverchair can accomplish for science.

We're remote-first, engineering-driven, and committed to staying at the forefront of what's possible. If you want your work to matter beyond the next sprint, we'd like to hear from you.

This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact on our company's growth trajectory while working with cutting-edge SaaS metrics and analytics. You'll be at the intersection of finance, operations, and strategy, providing critical insights that drive business decision

Essential Functions:

• Design and implement AI-powered search and discovery features using RAG, vector databases, and LLMs

• Design and implement upstream tools for peer review systems

• Build scalable backend services and data pipelines that process and serve scholarly content

• Integrate with frontier models (OpenAI, Anthropic, open-source alternatives) to deliver intelligent user experiences

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research needs into production systems

• Optimize for performance, reliability, and cost at scale

• Stay current with developments in AI/ML and bring new ideas to the team

Required Skills:

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience

• Strong Python expertise, including frameworks like FastAPI or Flask

• Experience building and deploying production systems at scale

• Hands-on experience with vector databases (Milvus, Pinecone, Weaviate, or similar)

• Familiarity with search technologies (Solr, Elasticsearch)

• Experience with SQL databases and event streaming (Kafka or similar)

• Cloud platform experience (Azure preferred; AWS or GCP also valuable)

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience

Desired Experience:

• Applied experience with LLMs, RAG architectures, and frameworks like LlamaIndex or LangChain

• Experience with TypeScript and React

• Familiarity with ML pipelines and model deployment

• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar integration patterns

• Background in publishing, healthcare, or research-adjacent industries

What You'll Bring:

• You're a strong engineer first, with genuine curiosity about AI and its applications

• You've built systems that handle real-world scale and complexity

• You care about the details—clean code, thoughtful architecture, reliable infrastructure

• You're energized by mission-driven work and want your engineering to matter

• You thrive in a technology-forward environment that values learning and experimentation

Silverchair is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws. We are dedicated to ensuring a fair and inclusive hiring process for all candidates.

We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in the application and hiring process.

Disclaimer: At this time, we cannot sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

No agencies please.

Salary Range: $150,000

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