Senior Applied Scientist, Document Understanding
Location
United States
Posted
48 days ago
Salary
$127.4K - $236.6K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Applied Scientist, Document Understanding
Thomson Reuters
Role Description This is an applied science position focused on designing, building, and deploying production-grade document understanding systems that power Westlaw, PracticalLaw, and CoCounsel. You will work across semantic chunking, document enrichment, and knowledge graph construction for complex legal, tax, and accounting content — delivering foundational intelligence that multiple product teams depend on at scale. Qualifications - PhD or Master's in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a related field - 5+ years of post-degree industry experience shipping document understanding, information extraction, or knowledge graph systems into production — not research-only experience - Publications at ACL, EMNLP, ICLR, NeurIPS, SIGIR, KDD, or equivalent - Experience leading through influence in an applied research setting - Production Python and experience with PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, and DeepSpeed Requirements - Hands-on production depth required in: - Document layout analysis and semantic chunking beyond fixed-size or paragraph-based methods - Hierarchical, multi-label document classification with domain-specific and customer-defined schemas - Entity recognition and linking, relation extraction, citation parsing, and knowledge graph construction from unstructured text - LLM-based information extraction, few-shot and multi-task learning, and post-training - Knowledge distillation, model compression, and SLM deployment under latency constraints - Synthetic data generation for NLP: query-answer generation with verification and scalable data augmentation - Annotation workflow design and evaluation framework development for document understanding tasks Benefits - Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: - Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities. - Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year. - Career Development and Growth: - Culture of continuous learning and skill development. - Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach. - Industry Competitive Benefits: - Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation, mental health days, retirement savings, and tuition reimbursement. - Culture: - Award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging. - Values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together. - Social Impact: - Two paid volunteer days off annually. - Opportunities for pro-bono consulting projects and ESG initiatives. - Making a Real-World Impact: - Helping customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.
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