Senior Data Scientist: AI-Driven IP Insights

LexisNexis Risk Solutions; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Private medical benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Life assurance

Flexible hours

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP) seeks a Senior Data Scientist I to design and validate AI-driven capabilities within Protégé in PatentSight. You will lead NLP/LLM experiments, define agentic workflows, and partner with engineers to translate research into scalable, product-ready features.

You will work on hybrid search, model evaluation, and IP data analytics, shaping product direction and business impact with evidenced-based insights.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative or technical field (Statistics, Computer Science, 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 (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., Google ADK, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen).
• Proficiency in data analysis tools.
• Strong foundation in statistics, modeling, and large-scale text processing.

Responsibilities

• Develop NLP, LLM, and generative AI approaches (e.g., RAG, prompt strategies, patent search).
• Define agentic workflows and reasoning strategies for multi-step IP tasks.
• Develop retrieval strategies, including hybrid search (semantic + lexical).
• Analyse 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

Machine learning

NLP

LLM-based modeling

Python

Experimentation design

Statistical analysis

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative/technical field

Tools

Google ADK

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Embeddings

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP) seeks a Senior Data Scientist I to design and validate AI-driven capabilities within Protégé in PatentSight. You will lead NLP/LLM experiments, define agentic workflows, and partner with engineers to translate research into scalable, product-ready features.

You will work on hybrid search, model evaluation, and IP data analytics, shaping product direction and business impact with evidenced-based insights.