Senior Applied Scientist, Document Understanding
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Job Location:
Frisco, TX - USA
Monthly Salary:
USD 145200 - 269600
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Senior Applied Scientist Document Understanding
About the Role
This role sits within the applied science function. You will design build and deploy document understanding systems that directly power Westlaw PracticalLaw and CoCounsel. The problems are real the scale is large and the expectation is shipped reliable measurable impact.
You will work across semantic chunking document enrichment knowledge graph construction and synthetic data generation for complex legal tax and accounting content. Multiple product teams depend on what this function delivers.
About You
You hold a PhD or Masters in Computer Science AI NLP or a related field with 5 years of post-degree industry experience taking NLP and document understanding systems from development to production at scale. You have hands-on depth across model development distillation evaluation and deployment. You publish you work independently lead through influence in an applied research setting and measure success by what ships and performs in production.
What Youll Do
Design and deploy semantic chunking models for lengthy non-uniformly structured legal documents with adjustable granularity across use cases
Build document enrichment systems using legal and customer-defined taxonomies
Develop LLM-based knowledge graph construction pipelines that extract and link citations entities and legal concepts across diverse legal content
Build scalable synthetic data generation systems for model training multi-hop query simulation and hallucination-free answer generation
Apply knowledge distillation techniques to compress large models into latency-constrained production-ready SLMs
Design evaluation frameworks component-level and end-to-end using expert annotation and synthetic data
Drive technical decisions on architecture chunking strategy classification approach and knowledge extraction methods
Partner with engineering on delivery reliability and scale across multiple product lines
Contribute to published research at venues such as ACL EMNLP ICLR NeurIPS SIGIR and KDD and to intellectual property
Required Qualifications
PhD or Masters 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
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 and annotation workflow design
End-to-end evaluation framework design for document understanding
Preferred Qualifications
Legal document understanding legal IE or legal AI experience
Complex document structures: nested hierarchies cross-references non-uniform formatting
Retrieval or QA systems over large document collections
RAG and agentic workflows in enterprise settings
Knowledge graph frameworks for legal or enterprise applications
AzureML or AWS SageMaker
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Whats in it For You
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities whether caring for family giving back to the community or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation two company-wide Mental Health Days off access to the Headspace app retirement savings tuition reimbursement employee incentive programs and resources for mental physical and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging flexibility work-life balance and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers Compete to Win Challenge (Y)our Thinking Act Fast / Learn Fast and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice truth and transparency. Together with the professionals and institutions we serve we help uphold the rule of law turn the wheels of commerce catch bad actors report the facts and provide trusted unbiased information to people all over the world.
About Us
Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal tax accounting compliance government and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice truth and transparency. Reuters part of Thomson Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.
We are powered by the talents of 26000 employees across more than 70 countries where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity accuracy fairness and transparency are under attack we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that we seek talented qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race color sex/gender including pregnancy gender identity and expression national origin religion sexual orientation disability age marital status citizen status veteran status or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
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Required Experience:
Senior IC
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About Company
Thomson Reuters CoCounsel is AI technology built by industry experts, backed by authoritative content and equipped with best-in-class security.
