Senior Data Scientist

We have partnered with our client in their search for a Senior Data Scientist to work remotely on eastern time zone.


Responsibilities

• Lead experimentation and model development for AI/ML solutions in legal products.
• Design and evaluate NLP, LLM, and generative AI approaches (e.g., RAG, prompt strategies).
• Define agentic workflows and reasoning strategies for multi-step legal tasks.
• Define retrieval strategies, including hybrid search (semantic + lexical), and evaluation metrics (e.g., relevance, ranking quality).
• Analyze large-scale legal datasets to extract insights and improve model performance.
• Establish best practices for model evaluation, validation, and benchmarking.
• Translate experimental results into clear product recommendations and business impact.
• Collaborate with product, legal experts, and engineers to align solutions with user needs.
• Mentor team members and provide technical leadership in data science and AI.

Skills Required

• Strong experience in machine learning, NLP, and LLM-based modeling.
• Proven experience designing and running experiments, including model evaluation and iteration.
• Experience with generative AI techniques (e.g., prompt engineering, RAG).
• Experience designing and evaluating hybrid search (semantic + lexical) using embeddings and vector databases.
• Experience designing agentic workflows and reasoning strategies, with hands-on experience applying agent frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen) in real-world use cases.
• Proficiency in Python and data analysis tools.
• Strong foundation in statistics, modeling, and large-scale text processing.
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience in legal, regulatory, compliance, or risk analytics domains.
• Familiarity with legal text corpora, citation networks, or legal research workflows.
• Experience with graph databases (e.g., Dgraph, Neo4j, Neptune) and knowledge graph concepts.
• Knowledge of responsible AI practices (e.g., explainability, bias mitigation).
• Experience influencing product direction through data science insights.

Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics).

Title Senior Data Scientist


Location Remote- EST


Client Industry Legal and professional


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