Senior Applied Scientist, Legal Document Understanding

Thomson Reuters; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 127,400 - 236,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Career development programs

Comprehensive health benefits

Competitive vacation and paid time off

Mental health initiatives

Job summary

A leading legal technology company is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist in Frisco, Texas. This role focuses on designing and deploying advanced document understanding systems. Candidates should have a PhD or Master's in a related field and at least 5 years of industry experience. Responsibilities include developing semantic models and knowledge graph systems tailored for legal content. The company offers comprehensive benefits including flexible work arrangements, competitive career development, and industry-leading compensation packages.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of post-degree industry experience shipping document understanding systems into production.
• Hands-on depth in model development, evaluation, and deployment.
• Publications at relevant AI conferences such as ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy semantic chunking models for legal documents.
• Build enrichment systems to classify and extract document metadata.
• Develop knowledge graph construction pipelines using LLM.

Skills

Production Python

Experience with PyTorch

Familiarity with Hugging Face Transformers

Knowledge distillation

Document layout analysis

Education

PhD or Master's in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or related field

Tools

DeepSpeed

Job description

A leading legal technology company is seeking a Senior Applied Scientist in Frisco, Texas. This role focuses on designing and deploying advanced document understanding systems. Candidates should have a PhD or Master's in a related field and at least 5 years of industry experience. Responsibilities include developing semantic models and knowledge graph systems tailored for legal content. The company offers comprehensive benefits including flexible work arrangements, competitive career development, and industry-leading compensation packages.