Senior Data Scientist

This hybrid Senior Data Scientist role is based in Charlotte, North Carolina and focuses on building and validating next-generation AI capabilities for legal and regulatory research and decision-support products. The work includes retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agent-based AI systems, and natural language processing solutions.

Role Overview

In this contract position, you will lead hands-on data science efforts across the lifecycle, from defining problems to production validation. The focus areas include designing RAG pipelines, developing evaluation methods for document understanding and summarization, and creating agent-based workflows that combine retrieval, reasoning, and task execution.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead hands-on data science work from problem definition through production validation
• Design RAG pipelines that improve the relevance and accuracy of generated answers based on specialized content
• Develop models and evaluation methods for legal research, document understanding, and summarization use cases
• Create agent-based workflows that coordinate retrieval, reasoning, and task completion
• Partner with engineering and product teams to deliver scalable, secure, and measurable AI capabilities

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in data science, applied machine learning, or a closely related discipline
• Deep knowledge of natural language processing, large language models, and modern generative AI methods
• Hands-on experience building and evaluating retrieval-augmented generation systems
• Experience developing agentic AI solutions or multi-step model-driven workflows
• Ability to work with distributed AI architectures and enterprise-scale data environments
• Strong analytical programming skills and a track record of moving experimental work into production
• Familiarity with legal, regulatory, compliance, or other document-intensive data domains
• Experience creating AI products for high-stakes professional users
• Bachelor’s degree required in data science, computer science, statistics, engineering, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred

Contract Details

• 6-month contract-to-hire opportunity
• Hybrid work arrangement in Charlotte, North Carolina

Benefits

Additional compensation and benefit information will be provided during the interview process.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be authorized to work full-time in the United States now and in the future.