Data Scientist (NLP and GenAI Specialist)

About the role

In the Legal & Compliance division, we assist the Firm in achieving its business objectives by facilitating and overseeing the Firm's management of legal, regulatory, and franchise risk. This is a director level position within the NFR Data & Analytics team, which is responsible for designing and optimizing surveillance models and tools using advanced analytical techniques to help identify suspicious and/or illegal behaviors like money laundering, market manipulation, insider trading, unfair sales or trading practices and other financial crimes.

What You'll Do In The Role

• Design high-performance systems leveraging cutting-edge techniques including Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI architecture, and knowledge graph analytics.
• Create GenAI-based solutions to automate manual tasks and drive cost efficiency.
• Conduct research to identify novel methods for enhancing analytical solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Compliance, Legal, Financial Crimes, and IT to promote adoption of new AI/ML/NLP capabilities.
• Champion innovative approaches to improve detection of suspicious activity.

Qualifications

• Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Intelligent Systems, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or other highly quantitative fields
• 5+ years of hands-on industry experience in building AI/ML/NLP solutions and applied statistical analysis to solve complex business problems
• Knowledge of software design and system principles and excellent skills in either Python (preferred) or Java
• Experience with AI/ML/NLP software packages such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK, PyTorch, HuggingFace, etc.
• Experience in adhering to Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) principles include GIT related operations
• Strong problem solving and time management skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with financial markets, especially in Compliance, Non-Financial Risk, and Fraud analytics
• Experience with benchmark creation and evaluation including LLM-as-a-Judge based techniques
• Knowledge of Vector Stores, Linux, SPARQL, and Graph Databases
• Typically, 8+ years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role

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