Senior Data Scientist - Boston

About the role

An established enterprise technology company is adding a Senior Data Scientist to its Boston, Massachusetts team. The role follows a hybrid schedule and supports the development of intelligent products for professionals who rely on large volumes of legal and regulatory information. You will investigate, prototype, and operationalize advanced language-based systems, with particular attention to RAG, autonomous AI workflows, and document intelligence. The ideal candidate combines scientific rigor with practical product judgment and can determine whether an AI system is accurate, useful, and ready for enterprise use.

Qualifications

Core Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience applying data science or machine learning to real-world products
• Advanced understanding of LLM behavior, NLP techniques, and generative model applications
• Proven ability to design retrieval strategies for unstructured and highly specialized content
• Experience building AI agents, orchestration logic, or tool-using model workflows
• Knowledge of scalable model services and distributed data or AI platforms
• Experience defining experiments, benchmarks, and quality measures for production AI systems

Additional Qualifications

• Background working with legal information, regulatory content, or another knowledge-heavy industry is beneficial
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field is required; a master’s degree is preferred
• Ability to communicate model tradeoffs and findings to engineering, product, and business stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Own data science initiatives from exploratory analysis and prototyping through launch assessment
• Construct retrieval and ranking approaches that ground language-model responses in authoritative source material
• Build analytical and modeling solutions for case analysis, statutory interpretation, and document summarization
• Establish testing frameworks that measure factuality, relevance, robustness, and end-user value
• Collaborate with platform teams to integrate data science solutions into secure, high-volume applications

Engagement Details

• Initial 6-month contract with the potential to convert to a permanent position
• Hybrid schedule based in Boston, Massachusetts
• Hands-on ownership of sophisticated generative AI and information-retrieval initiatives
• Access to large-scale professional content and challenging language-data problems
• Cross-functional partnership with AI platform, software engineering, and product groups

Candidates must have current and future authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis.