AI Data Scientist for Legal Analytics (Hybrid)

TruLegal (formerly TRU Staffing); United States; Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

TruLegal (formerly TRU Staffing) seeks a Data Scientist to join its AI & Data Analytics team. You will deliver AI solutions across active matters and firm-wide initiatives, embedding with case teams and building production-ready data pipelines. This role blends development, consulting, and deployment in a hybrid setup near a U.S.

or London office. You will work with Python, SQL, LLMs, and NLP to drive retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge retrieval, while collaborating with IT and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a quantitative field; Master’s preferred.
• Experience in data science, ML, or advanced analytics; familiarity with confidential environments.
• Proficiency in Python for analysis, modeling, and prototyping; advanced SQL.
• NLP experience: text classification, entity recognition, semantic search, and parsing.
• Hands-on with LLM platforms (Claude, OpenAI, Hugging Face) and RAG architectures.
• Experience building data pipelines for structured and unstructured data.
• Strong visualization skills (Power BI/Tableau) and Excel.
• Ability to measure model outputs with defined metrics and communicate results clearly.

Responsibilities

• Partner with trial teams to scope data problems and deliver executable solutions under deadlines.
• Build workflows for document-heavy matters: LLM-based extraction, entity recognition, classification.
• Support early case assessment and dispute intelligence by structuring case materials.
• Design data-modeling projects across discovery datasets and third-party data sources.
• Support trial and witness preparation workflows and evolve case intelligence.
• Produce clear visualizations and analyses for attorneys to act on.

Skills

Python for data analysis

Advanced SQL

NLP & ML

LLMs & RAG

Data pipelines

Visualization tools

Model evaluation

Communication

Version control

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related quantitative field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Claude

OpenAI

Hugging Face

LangChain

Vector databases

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

TruLegal (formerly TRU Staffing) seeks a Data Scientist to join its AI & Data Analytics team. You will deliver AI solutions across active matters and firm-wide initiatives, embedding with case teams and building production-ready data pipelines. This role blends development, consulting, and deployment in a hybrid setup near a U.S.

or London office. You will work with Python, SQL, LLMs, and NLP to drive retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge retrieval, while collaborating with IT and