Manager, Data Science — Lead AI for Legal Drafting & RAG

Relx Plc; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 192,000; Full time

Job summary

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Raleigh, NC seeks a Manager of Data Science to lead a team building LLM-powered legal drafting and retrieval solutions. You will shape strategy, architect RAG pipelines, and mentor data scientists and ML engineers.

You’ll collaborate with Legal SMEs, Product teams, and design to deliver production-ready AI that delivers auditable, compliant outputs while advancing responsible AI practices.

Qualifications

• 3+ years leading teams building LLM-based apps.
• Experience deploying RAG systems in legal/regulated domains.
• Hands-on with LangChain, vector DBs, and prompts.
• Strong Python and ML tooling background.

Responsibilities

• Define roadmap for LLMs and agentic AI in legal drafting.
• Architect systems combining foundation models with RAG.
• Mentor data scientists and ML engineers; collaborate with SMEs.
• Ensure evaluability, observability, and responsible AI use.

Skills

LLM development

LangChain

Python

Vector databases

Prompt tuning

Kubernetes

AWS

Education

Graduate degree in CS/AI

Tools

Solr

Elasticsearch

Qdrant

Weaviate

Docker

TorchServe

Ray Serve

Job description

LexisNexis Legal & Professional in Raleigh, NC seeks a Manager of Data Science to lead a team building LLM-powered legal drafting and retrieval solutions. You will shape strategy, architect RAG pipelines, and mentor data scientists and ML engineers.

You’ll collaborate with Legal SMEs, Product teams, and design to deliver production-ready AI that delivers auditable, compliant outputs while advancing responsible AI practices.