Lead ML Engineer - Scalable AI for Legal Analytics

RELX; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive bonus

Country-specific benefits

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of RELX, seeks a Machine Learning Engineer Lead to design, build, and operate scalable AI/ML systems and agentic architectures that power next‑generation legal research and analytics products. You will be a hands‑on engineer and leader, guiding a team of 4–5 ML engineers and setting platform‑level decisions for enterprise‑grade scalability and responsible AI.

Required: 8–10 years of ML/Software Eng experience, 2–3 years in people management, a CS degree

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of Machine Learning/Software Engineer experience.
• 2-3 years of people management experience.
• Master's or Bachelor's degree in CS is highly desirable.
• Strong software engineering background with system design for large-scale, unstructured data.
• Experience with ML deployment to production.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of 4-5 ML engineers.
• Provide architectural direction and code-level guidance.
• Establish engineering best practices for ML system design, testing, and deployment.
• Conduct design reviews, performance reviews, and technical roadmap planning.
• Architect distributed ML systems serving multiple global products.
• Standardize infrastructure patterns for LLM serving and retrieval systems.
• Define and implement enterprise-ready agentic frameworks.
• Architect multi-step reasoning systems.
• Lead decisions on deterministic workflows vs. autonomous agents.
• Implement guardrails, safety layers, and traceability mechanisms.
• Develop evaluation frameworks to measure reasoning quality, hallucination rates, and reliability.
• Establish CI/CD standards for ML lifecycle management.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance and responsible AI standards.

Skills

Machine Learning

Software Engineering

Distributed Systems

Team Leadership

ML Deployment

Education

CS degree

Job description

LexisNexis Legal & Professional, part of RELX, seeks a Machine Learning Engineer Lead to design, build, and operate scalable AI/ML systems and agentic architectures that power next‑generation legal research and analytics products. You will be a hands‑on engineer and leader, guiding a team of 4–5 ML engineers and setting platform‑level decisions for enterprise‑grade scalability and responsible AI.

Required: 8–10 years of ML/Software Eng experience, 2–3 years in people management, a CS degree