Senior Data Scientist: NLP & AI for IP Insights

LexisNexis Legal & Professional group; East Devon; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Private medical benefits

Pension scheme

Job summary

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Scientist I to shape AI-powered IP workflows. You will design and validate Protégé capabilities, leveraging NLP, LLMs, and RAG to drive experimentation, modeling, and evaluation in collaboration with engineers.

You will translate insights into scalable, customer-facing features and work with product and IP experts to ensure impact and alignment 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 (e.g., Google ADK, LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen) in real-world use cases.
• Proficiency in data analysis tools.
• Strong foundation in statistics, modeling, and large-scale text processing.

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.
• 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

Generative AI

Hybrid search

Agentic workflows

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Data analysis tools

Statistics

Education

Degree in Statistics / Computer Science / Mathematics / Data Science

Tools

Google ADK

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Vector databases

Job description

LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions is seeking a Senior Data Scientist I to shape AI-powered IP workflows. You will design and validate Protégé capabilities, leveraging NLP, LLMs, and RAG to drive experimentation, modeling, and evaluation in collaboration with engineers.

You will translate insights into scalable, customer-facing features and work with product and IP experts to ensure impact and alignment with user needs.