Principal Data Scientist I: AI & GenAI Leader

RELX (LexisNexisLegal); Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 118,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

RELX (LexisNexisLegal) seeks a Principal Data Scientist I to lead analytic projects, approve models before customer delivery, and shape governance frameworks. You will guide teams and set high standards for model development across advanced AI systems.

The role emphasizes mentoring, stakeholder communication, and managing complex customer relationships, with a focus on responsible AI and data governance in a compliant environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with large language models and prompt engineering.
• Expertise in retrieval augmented generation and semantic search.
• Strong leadership, mentoring and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Acting as a leader for analytic project and result sharing.
• Leading code reviews and acting as final approver of models before reaching customers.
• Evaluating and creating new frameworks, defining methodologies and governance.
• Managing and leading small-to-medium sized teams, directly or indirectly.
• Setting a high bar for model development.

Skills

LLMs

RAG

Embedding

Semantic search

Knowledge graph

Agentic AI

Evaluation

Cost optimization

Observability

Governance

Communication

Mentoring

Leadership

Project leadership

Customer relationships

Job description

RELX (LexisNexisLegal) seeks a Principal Data Scientist I to lead analytic projects, approve models before customer delivery, and shape governance frameworks. You will guide teams and set high standards for model development across advanced AI systems.

The role emphasizes mentoring, stakeholder communication, and managing complex customer relationships, with a focus on responsible AI and data governance in a compliant environment.