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Lead Applied Scientist, Document Understanding

Location: Remote
Compensation: To Be Discussed
Reviewed: Fri, Oct 16, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Leading the design and development of document understanding systems, the full-time Lead Applied Scientist, Document Understanding will work remotely to create impactful solutions for legal, tax, and accounting content while collaborating with multiple product teams.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Design and deploy semantic chunking models for complex legal documents
  • Build document enrichment systems utilizing legal and customer-defined taxonomies
  • Develop knowledge graph construction pipelines that extract and link legal concepts
Required Qualifications:
  • PhD in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, or a related field
  • 8+ years of industry experience in document understanding and applied NLP solutions
  • Expertise in the end-to-end ML lifecycle, including model development and production deployment
  • Strong Python programming skills with experience in PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers
  • Track record of publishing research in leading AI and NLP conferences

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