Senior Applied Scientist, Document Understanding

Job description

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 Master's 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 You'll Do: Design and deploy semantic chunking models for lengthy, non-uniformly structured legal documents with adjustable granularity across use ca...