Data Scientist

MRA Search; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent law firm in the UK is seeking a Data Scientist to join their advanced AI team. The position involves building production-grade AI systems, developing document classifiers, and collaborating with engineers to create legal tools. Candidates should have strong ML fundamentals, proficiency in Python, and experience with AI systems. This role is fully remote, offering the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects in the legal sector.

Qualifications

• Strong ML fundamentals and hands-on LLM experience.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with modern AI tooling.
• Experience building or shipping real AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Building production-grade AI systems used across the firm.
• Developing document classifiers and intelligence pipelines.
• Collaborating with engineers and legal specialists.

Skills

ML fundamentals

Hands-on LLM experience

Proficiency in Python

Familiarity with modern AI tooling

Interest in legal workflows

Tools

AWS

Azure

LangChain

Hugging Face

MLOps

Job description

🌟 Data Scientist | Elite US Law Firm | Remote (UK)

Legal AI, LLMs, Document Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems

I’m working with an elite US law firm that is building one of the most advanced in‑house AI teams in the legal sector. They’re not dabbling in legal tech; they’re redesigning how legal work is done, backed by serious investment and a world‑class practice.

They are now looking to hire a Data Scientist to join a high‑performing, 12‑person AI team working on cutting‑edge LLM systems, multi‑modal models, document‑intelligence pipelines and real‑world AI tools used daily by lawyers.

What you’ll work on

• Building production‑grade AI systems used across the firm
• Developing document classifiers, contract analysers and end‑to‑end intelligence pipelines
• Designing evaluation frameworks and optimising model performance
• Turning complex legal data into high‑quality, structured datasets
• Collaborating with engineers and legal specialists to build tools that genuinely shift workloads

What they’re looking for

• Strong ML fundamentals and hands‑on LLM experience
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with modern AI tooling (e.g. embeddings, retrieval, multi‑agent architectures, document understanding)
• Experience building or shipping real AI systemsi>
• Interest in legal workflows (no legal background required)

Bonus experience

• NLP on long‑form or structured documents
• LangChain / LangGraph, LlamaIndex, Hugging Face
• Cloud (AWS / Azure), MLOps, vector databases
• Experience in fast‑paced AI environments or start‑ups