Senior/Principal Data Scientist - NLP (Remote) - United Kingdom

Team: Engineering

Country: United Kingdom

Remote Work Available: Yes

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Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $2B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We're not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation (PBC), legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

Link is a key part of  Veeva Systems, aimed at "Connecting life sciences and key people to improve research and care." Our product provides real-time academic, social, and medical data to create comprehensive profiles, helping life-science partners find experts to speed up new therapeutics' development and adoption.

As part of the AI team, your main task will be to develop LLM-based agents specialized in extracting detailed information about Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in healthcare. You’ll build an end-to-end pipeline to analyze unstructured websites, and medical documents, and enable semantic searches for KOL data across various languages.

Using cloud infrastructure, you'll create models for information extraction and collaborate with software developers to deploy them. We aim to set new industry standards by training ML models with input from 2000+ curators, ensuring quality and scalability across different regions, languages, and specialties.

You can work remotely from anywhere in Portugal, the UK, or Spain, but must reside in one of these countries and be legally authorized to work there without visa or relocation support from Veeva. If you don't meet this requirement but consider yourself an exceptional candidate, please include a separate note for consideration.

What You'll Do
  • Adopt the latest NLP technologies and trends
  • Develop LLM-based agents capable of performing function calls and using tools like browsers for enhanced data retrieval
  • Design and implement end-to-end pipelines to extract predefined information from large-scale, unstructured, multi-domain, and multilingual data
  • Use and develop techniques like named entity recognition, entity-linking, slot-filling, few-shot learning, active learning, question answering, and dense passage retrieval for information extraction
  • Collaborate with data quality teams to define annotation metrics and conduct qualitative and quantitative evaluations
Requirements
  • 4+ years of data science experience (or 2+ years with a Ph.D.)
  • Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI, Computational Linguistics, or a related field
  • Strong foundation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML)
  • Experience with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) for training LLMs based on human preferences
  • Hands-on experience with large language models and transformers (e.g., GPT, BERT)
  • Proficient in Python and NLP libraries (e.g., NLTK, SpaCy, Hugging Face)
  • Familiarity with Big Data frameworks (e.g., Ray, Spark) and Deep Learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, JAX)
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional teamwork
Nice to Have
  • AWS experience
  • Experience in the life/health sciences industry, especially pharma
  • Published work in the AI field
  • Production-level development skills
  • Leadership abilities with a strong network for team growth and hiring
  • Familiarity with model registry tools (e.g., MLflow)
  • Knowledge of distributed computing platforms (e.g., Ray, Spark)
Perks & Benefits
  • Work anywhere
  • Personal development budget 
  • Veeva charitable giving program
  • Fitness reimbursement
  • Life insurance + pension fund
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Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

As an equal opportunity employer, Veeva is committed to fostering a culture of inclusion and growing a diverse workforce. Diversity makes us stronger. It comes in many forms. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, politics, sexual orientation, age, disability and life experience shape us all into unique individuals. We value people for the individuals they are and the contributions they can bring to our teams.

If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at talent_accommodations@veeva.com.

Work Where It’s Best for You

Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day. It’s about getting the work done in the way and place that works best for each person. This applies across all locations and departments.

Work Anywhere does not mean work at any time. We have predictable core hours where employees are generally available for meetings and collaboration. Employees are focused and available during core hours.

We invest in our offices to make them places where our employees like to go. If you work in the office three or more days a week, you will have a dedicated office workspace. Our offices function as hubs to draw people in, create social bonds, and where random connections and mixing of ideas happen. We’re investing more in offices, culture, and offsite meetings, not less.

Product teams are organized in regional product hubs for optimal collaboration and live within a time zone of their hub. Our current product hubs are located in Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto. We create opportunities for teams to get together in person regularly.

Customer-facing roles, such as Sales and Professional Services, live near and/or travel to their customers.

When an employee moves within a country it does not cause a change in salary. Where you live impacts you and your family. Not knowing if your compensation will change if you move can cause stress and uncertainty for everyone. We wanted to eliminate that.

Work at Veeva. Work where it’s best for you.

A different kind of company. A Public Benefit Corporation.

Unlike a traditional corporation, whose only legal duty is to maximize shareholder value, PBCs consider their public benefit purpose and the interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct—including customers, employees, and the community—in addition to shareholders’ interests.

What sets us apart

In February 2021, Veeva became the first public company to convert to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC).

Unlike a traditional corporation, whose only legal duty is to maximize shareholder value, PBCs consider their public benefit purpose and the interests of those materially affected by the corporation’s conduct—including customers, employees, and the community—in addition to shareholders’ interests.

Veeva’s public benefit purpose is to help make the industries we serve more productive and create high-quality employment opportunities.

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Work Anywhere means you can work in an office or at home on any given day. It’s about getting the work done in the way and place that works best for you.

We invest in our offices to make them places where our employees like to go. If you work in the office three or more days a week, you will have a dedicated office workspace.

Product teams are organized in regional product excellence hubs for optimal collaboration and live within a time zone of their hub. Our current product hubs are located in Pleasanton, Columbus, Boston, Kansas City, New York City, Raleigh, and Toronto. We create opportunities for teams to get together in person regularly.

Customer-facing roles, such as Sales and Professional Services, live near and/or travel to their customers.

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At Veeva, we believe in giving back. Veeva’s support for charitable causes is entirely employee driven because we think giving is personal and should be directed by the individual. With our 1% Veeva Giving program, each employee receives an amount equivalent to 1% of their base salary annually to support the non-profit(s) of their choice. We don’t dictate favored corporate causes or ask employees to donate to specific non-profits. We never support a charitable cause in exchange for commercial advantage or preferential treatment.

Veeva’s core values — do the right thing, customer success, employee success, and speed — guide our decision making and define our culture. Doing the right thing means that we are concerned about more than just financial success and return to shareholders. We recognize a responsibility to customers, employees, environment, and society.As individuals, we pride ourselves on being good people who are honest, fair, and direct. We treat others with respect. As a company, we strive to be a good corporate citizen, a positive force in the business community, active in our communities, and an example to others.

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Our equity program is designed to enable the vast majority of our employees to participate. Our unique approach to awarding equity grants allows our employees to be shareholders so they can benefit financially in the company’s growth.

Veeva has taken a strong stance against the use of non-compete agreements that can limit employee opportunities. We do not require our employees to sign non-compete agreements, and we have taken legal action to fight the unfair use of these agreements by other companies because we believe such agreements limit an employee’s fundamental right to work where they choose. We believe in our people and want them to be successful here at Veeva or wherever their careers take them.

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