Senior Data Scientist — AI/NLP for IP Insights

LexisNexis; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible hours

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Employee development

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP) seeks a Data Scientist III to design and validate AI-driven capabilities within Protégé in PatentSight. You will define what to build using ML, NLP, and LLMs to tackle complex IP workflows and partner with engineers to deliver scalable, customer-facing solutions.

You will drive experimentation, modeling, evaluation, and translate results into product recommendations, collaborating with IP experts and product teams to align with user needs.

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 in real-world use cases.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement 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), and evaluation metrics (e.g., relevance, ranking quality).
• 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

Python programming

Machine learning

NLP & LLM

Experimentation

Data analysis

Embeddings & vector DB

Agent frameworks

Education

Degree in quantitative/technical field

Tools

Google ADK

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP) seeks a Data Scientist III to design and validate AI-driven capabilities within Protégé in PatentSight. You will define what to build using ML, NLP, and LLMs to tackle complex IP workflows and partner with engineers to deliver scalable, customer-facing solutions.

You will drive experimentation, modeling, evaluation, and translate results into product recommendations, collaborating with IP experts and product teams to align with user needs.