Lead Data Scientist - Fintech$200,000$225,000 + bonus + benefitsRemoteAbout the OrganizationJoin a global financial services company delivering intelligent information and technology solutions to professionals in legal, tax, compliance, and corporate sectors. The team is part of the organization's innovation hub, focused on applying AI, LLM, and data science to create forward-looking tools.The environment combines the best of both worlds: startup energy with enterprise support. Projects include building agentic systems to automate tax prep and document summarization for legal and financial workflows.About the RoleThis is a tech-lead, model building / developmentfocused roleideal for someone with a strong foundation in applied NLP research and a passion for making machine learning work in the real world. You'll own experiments, iterate on PoCs, and help define how ML models are built for in production environments.What Youll Bring5+ years of machine learning and NLP modeling experience in applied research and production environmentsPhD in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics or similar highly preferredTechnical leadership experience required; direct people management a plusExperience with LLMs and agents for financial services, legal or complianceBackground in: NLP: Named Entity Recognition / NER, information extraction, and information retrievalCloud environments (provider-agnostic), AWS or GCP a plusPython, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, BERT, RAG experience preferredPublication and patent history a plusStrong collaboration and communication skills, including experience working with non-technical stakeholdersIndependent problem-solver with a proactive mindsetPreferred ExperienceTechnical leadership on NLP productsExperience delivering LLM-based solutionsFamiliarity with all stages of the AI product lifecycleStartup or fast-paced innovation environment experienceHOW TO APPLYPlease register your interest by sending your rsum to Tim Jonas via the Apply link on this page.KEYWORDSMachine Learning | GenAI | Gen AI | Generative AI | LLMs | Large Language Models | Artificial Intelligence | Applied Research | Production | AI | Artificial Intelligence | Publications | Patents | PyTorch | Python | Deployment | Hugging Face | RAG | Retreival Augmented Generation | Agents | NLP | Natural Language Processing | Chatbots | NER | Information Extraction | Information Retrieval
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Lead Data Scientist - Fintech