Senior Data Scientist, NLP & AI for IP Insights

Butterworths Limited Company; Farringdon; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Private medical benefits

Life assurance

Contributory pension

Job summary

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking a Data Scientist III to design and validate AI-driven capabilities for Protégé in PatentSight. You will drive experiments, model development, and evaluation, collaborating with engineers to translate validated approaches into scalable, customer-facing features.

The role focuses on leveraging NLP, LLMs, and retrieval techniques to solve complex IP workflows and deliver insights that inform product decisions and business impact.

Qualifications

• Degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Statistics, CS or Data Science.
• Strong experience in ML, NLP, and LLM-based modeling.
• Strong coding skills in Python and experimenting with AI approaches.

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 with hybrid search and evaluation metrics.
• Analyze large-scale IP datasets to improve model performance.
• Establish best practices for model evaluation and benchmarking.
• Translate results into product recommendations and business impact.
• Collaborate with product, IP experts, and engineers to align solutions with user needs.

Skills

Machine learning

NLP

LLMs

Python

Generative AI

Experimentation

Statistics

Data analysis

Education

Degree in quantitative field

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

AutoGen

Embeddings

Vector DBs

Job description

LexisNexis Risk Solutions in the United Kingdom is seeking a Data Scientist III to design and validate AI-driven capabilities for Protégé in PatentSight. You will drive experiments, model development, and evaluation, collaborating with engineers to translate validated approaches into scalable, customer-facing features.

The role focuses on leveraging NLP, LLMs, and retrieval techniques to solve complex IP workflows and deliver insights that inform product decisions and business impact.