[Remote] reputed company Applied Scientist, Document Understanding

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global leader in providing trusted content and technology solutions. They are seeking a reputed company Applied Scientist in Document Understanding to design and reputed company systems that enhance legal content processing, working on various advanced AI methodologies and collaborating with multiple product teams.

Responsibilities

• 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
• reputed company LLM-based knowledge graph construction pipelines that extract and link citations, entities, and legal concepts across diverse legal content
• reputed company knowledge distillation efforts 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
• Own technical decisions on architecture, chunking strategy, classification approach, and knowledge extraction methods
• Partner with engineering on delivery, reliability, and scale across multiple product lines
• Provide technical input to senior leadership on AI strategy and roadmap
• Mentor applied scientists and ML practitioners on the team

Skills

• PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or a reputed company field — required
• 8+ 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
• Production Python and experience with PyTorch, reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company and annotation workflow design
• End-to-end evaluation reputed company design for document understanding
• Legal document understanding, legal IE, or legal AI experience
• reputed company document structures: reputed company 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

Benefits

• reputed company 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.
• Flexible work arrangements, including work from reputed company for up to 8 weeks per year
• Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach
• Comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation
• Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
• Access to the reputed company app
• Retirement savings
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee incentive programs
• Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Two paid volunteer days off annually
• Opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
• Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
• Competitive 401k plan with company match
• Market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave
• Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee
• Optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee
• Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
• Fitness reimbursement
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee
• Access to 529 Plan
• Commuter benefits
• Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance

Company Overview

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