Lead Applied Scientist – Public Sector Investigations

Relativity; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 246,000; Full time

Job summary

Relativity Applied Science seeks a Lead Applied Scientist to set technical direction for public-sector investigations and to expand the aiR agentic harness for greater capability and reliability.

You will own the science end-to-end, from retrieval and review to evaluation standards, ensuring complete, correct, and defensible results while collaborating with product, engineering, and legal experts.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD in CS or quantitative discipline with 3+ years in applied AI/ML.
• Eligibility for US Public Trust clearance.
• Working knowledge of FOIA exemptions, PII handling, and redaction.
• Deep applied AI/ML experience delivering production AI systems with engineering partners.
• Ability to design studies that settle arguments and trust data over intuition.
• Software-engineering mindset guiding workstream quality and longevity.
• Ownership mindset extending beyond immediate scope.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction for the workstream and coordinate approaches across contributors.
• Review designs and evaluations, raise the bar, and unblock hard problems without managing people.
• Own AI system readiness from framing to evaluation, error analysis, and production monitoring with engineering partners.
• Be the first escalation for the domain's hardest technical calls and know when to bring in senior partners.
• Act as a pathfinder by building initial prototypes with tiger teams.
• Take concepts to production at scale with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Applied AI/ML

Public Trust clearance eligibility

Privacy & records standards

AI deployment to production

Lead AI projects

Data study design

Software engineering mindset

Ownership mindset

Education

Master's or PhD in CS or quantitative discipline

Job description

Relativity Applied Science seeks a Lead Applied Scientist to set technical direction for public-sector investigations and to expand the aiR agentic harness for greater capability and reliability.

You will own the science end-to-end, from retrieval and review to evaluation standards, ensuring complete, correct, and defensible results while collaborating with product, engineering, and legal experts.