Senior Applied Scientist, Document Understanding

Job description

New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs. Senior Applied Scientist, Document Understanding About the Role: 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. 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 shipping document understanding, information extraction, or knowledge graph systems into production. You have hands-on depth across model development, distillation, evaluation, and deployment. 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...