Senior Applied Scientist, AI Studio

Job Description: 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: The Senior Applied Scientist serves as a senior scientific authority for AI Studio, setting the scientific approach and quality bar across multiple engagement pods and mentoring Applied Scientists embedded in individual pods. As part of Wiley’s applied AI professional services practice, the role combines deep domain expertise with applied problem-solving to translate real-world research challenges into scientifically rigorous, deployable AI-enabled solutions and ensure consistent quality across AI Studio’s full portfolio of engagements.

The position requires working directly with customers such as pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, and materials science organizations to embed AI into evidence-intensive research processes, often on engagements with undefined or evolving scientific requirements. The Senior Applied Scientist ensures solutions are grounded in authoritative scientific knowledge and meet rigorous standards for accuracy and reliability, while shaping product direction, extending delivery capacity through external partners, and building Wiley’s scientific credibility in the market.

Job Responsibilities:   Scientific leadership across engagements Set the scientific approach and quality standard across multiple AI Studio engagement pods, not limited to a single active engagement Serve as a technical escalation point and mentor for Applied Scientists on complex or high-ambiguity engagements; review scientific approach and outputs across engagements to ensure consistency and rigor Operate with minimal oversight on engagements with undefined or evolving scientific requirements, establishing approach where no established playbook exists Partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineers to bridge scientific and technical domains, ensuring successful solution implementation Delivery partner ecosystem ownership Own AI Studio’s external delivery partner ecosystem (e.g., Prolego, Cactus, and other delivery providers extending AI Studio’s delivery capacity), including: Establishing scientific standards and governance processes partners must meet Defining quality expectations and evaluation criteria for partner-delivered scientific work Managing partner performance against those standards, including escalation and remediation when work falls short Define and monitor service levels, delivery KPIs, capacity commitments, and operating rhythms for external delivery partners.

Coordinate with Procurement, Legal, Finance, and business stakeholders on partner onboarding, statements of work, contractual requirements, and renewals. Forecast external delivery capacity and recommend the appropriate partner allocation based on scientific expertise, delivery needs, quality, and commercial considerations. Product and platform influence Partner with Product leadership to define scientific requirements, validation frameworks, and customer-driven enhancements that influence the ARI platform roadmap Validate product credibility and fitness for use from a scientific standpoint, and provide domain expertise that shapes product positioning Pre-sales and customer strategy Lead scientific feasibility assessment in pre-sales and early scoping discussions, with authority to determine scientific viability and recommend that engagements be reshaped or declined on scientific grounds.

Serve as a senior scientific partner for strategic accounts, building trusted relationships with R&D leaders and identifying opportunities for repeat or expanded engagements in collaboration with Sales and account leadership. External credi