Lead Applied Scientist, Document Understanding

Thomson Reuters

Base: $147,600 - $274,200 usd (us locations); base...
Phd in computer science or related field
8+ years post-degree industry experience
Production deployment of nlp systems
This role owns the design, development, and production deployment of document understanding systems that power Westlaw, PracticalLaw, and CoCounsel

Job Summary

  • This role owns the design, development, and production deployment of document understanding systems that power Westlaw, PracticalLaw, and CoCounsel.
  • Candidates must have a PhD and 8+ years of industry experience shipping NLP and document understanding systems into production at scale.
  • The company offers comprehensive benefits including flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, and access to the Headspace app.

Matching Summary

This role owns the design, development, and production deployment of document understanding systems that power Westlaw, PracticalLaw, and CoCounsel.

Salary

Base: $147,600 - $274,200 USD (US locations); Base: $140,000 - $175,000 CAD (Ontario, Canada); Bonus: Eligible for Annual Bonus based on performance

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • PhD in Computer Science or related field
  • 8+ years post-degree industry experience
  • Production deployment of NLP systems
  • Document layout analysis and semantic chunking
  • Knowledge graph construction from unstructured text
  • LLM-based information extraction and distillation
  • Python with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers

Nice-to-have

  • Legal document understanding experience
  • Complex nested hierarchy handling
  • RAG and agentic workflow expertise
  • AzureML or AWS SageMaker production depth
  • Publications at top-tier AI conferences

Key Requirements

  • PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or related field
  • 8+ years post-degree industry experience
  • Experience shipping document understanding systems to production
  • Publications at ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent

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