Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Compunnel Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to lead the design and validation of AI-driven product capabilities in the legal domain. The role focuses on experimentation, NLP and LLM modeling, evaluation, agentic workflows, and partnering with engineers to deliver scalable customer-facing solutions.
Responsibilities
- Lead experimentation and model development for AI/ML solutions in legal products
- Design and evaluate NLP, LLM, and generative AI approaches (e.g., RAG, prompt strategies)
- Define agentic workflows and reasoning strategies for multi-step legal tasks
- Define retrieval strategies, including hybrid search (semantic + lexical), and evaluation metrics (e.g., relevance, ranking quality)
- Analyze large-scale legal datasets to extract insights and improve model performance
- Establish best practices for model evaluation, validation, and benchmarking
- Translate experimental results into clear product recommendations and business impact
- Collaborate with product, legal experts, and engineers to align solutions with user needs
- Mentor team members and provide technical leadership in data science and AI
Skills
- 7-10+ years of data science experience (starting career in in NLP, then past 4-5 years strong GenAI data science experience)
- Experience designing agentic workflows and using generative AI based techniques ( ex: prompt engineering, RAG system end to end builds)
- Experience with unstructured data (text, documents) – document processing, NLP/text, embeddings/retrievals, agentic, etc
- Strong experience with and creating production-grade ML systems at scale
- Strong LLM, GenerativeAI, RAG deployment experience (implementations, as well as evaluations – end-to-end)
- Experience following deployment lifecycle of product build and maintenance/new feature development)
- Experience working alongside ML engineers through production deployment/cycle
- Strong python background
Benefits
- 100% Remote (EST Time Zone)
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