Lead Applied Scientist, Document Understanding

Thomson Reuters

Lead Applied Scientist designing and deploying document understanding systems for legal AI solutions. Collaborating with multiple product teams to ensure reliable performance and measurable impact.

Posted 5/29/2026full-timeRemote • Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $147,600 - $274,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own design, development, and production deployment of document understanding systems
Design and deploy semantic chunking models for legal documents
Build document enrichment systems using taxonomies
Develop LLM-based knowledge graph construction pipelines
Lead knowledge distillation efforts for model compression
Design evaluation frameworks using expert annotation
Provide technical input on AI strategy and roadmap

Requirements

What you’ll need

PhD in Computer Science, AI, NLP, or related field
8+ years of post-degree industry experience shipping document understanding systems
Publications at ACL, EMNLP, etc.
Production Python experience
Hands-on production depth in document layout analysis and semantic chunking
Experience in hierarchical, multi-label document classification
Entity recognition, citation parsing, and knowledge graph construction from unstructured text
Knowledge distillation and model compression

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flex My Way policies for work-life balance
Comprehensive benefit plans including health insurance
Flexible vacation and paid time off
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to Headspace app
Retirement savings plan with 401(k) matching
Tuition reimbursement and employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Two paid volunteer days off annually

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Hard Skills & Tools

Pythondocument understanding systemssemantic chunkingdocument enrichmentknowledge graph constructionknowledge distillationmodel compressiondocument layout analysishierarchical document classificationentity recognition

Soft Skills

leadershiptechnical inputcommunication

Certifications

PhD in Computer SciencePhD in AIPhD in NLP