Senior Data Scientist - AI-Driven IP Analytics

RELX; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Private medical benefits

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Travel season ticket loan

Employee discounts

Wellbeing programs

Parental leave

Learning resources

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP) seeks a Senior Data Scientist I to shape AI-driven capabilities in Protégé for PatentSight. You will design NLP/LLM approaches, define agentic workflows, and work with engineers to scale validated methods into customer-ready features.

The role focuses on experimentation, modeling, and evaluation of AI workflows, with close collaboration with product and IP experts to deliver impactful IP solutions.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative or technical field (Statistics, CS, Mathematics, Data Science, etc.).
• Strong experience in machine learning, NLP, and LLM-based modeling.
• Strong experience designing and running experiments, including model evaluation and iteration.
• Strong coding skills in Python.
• Experience with generative AI techniques (prompt engineering, RAG).
• Experience designing and evaluating hybrid search (semantic + lexical) using embeddings and vector databases.
• Experience designing agentic workflows and reasoning strategies with agent frameworks in real-world use cases.

Responsibilities

• Develop NLP, LLM, and generative AI approaches (e.g., RAG, prompts, patent search).
• Define agentic workflows and reasoning strategies for multi-step IP tasks.
• Develop retrieval strategies, including hybrid search and evaluation metrics.
• Analyze large-scale IP 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, IP experts, and engineers to align solutions with user needs.

Skills

NLP

LLM modeling

Python

Experimentation

Data analysis

Retrieval augmented

Education

Quantitative degree

Tools

Google ADK

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Embeddings

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP) seeks a Senior Data Scientist I to shape AI-driven capabilities in Protégé for PatentSight. You will design NLP/LLM approaches, define agentic workflows, and work with engineers to scale validated methods into customer-ready features.

The role focuses on experimentation, modeling, and evaluation of AI workflows, with close collaboration with product and IP experts to deliver impactful IP solutions.