Senior Applied Scientist
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Senior Applied Scientist
Company: [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk]
Location: London
Salary: $146.8-272.6k
Experience Level: Mid-Senior level
Job Type: Full-time
Work Type: On-site
About the Role
As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will lead end-to-end applied research projects that drive product innovation in legal intelligence, tax automation, or regulatory compliance. You will translate business challenges into technical solutions, determine feasibility, and deliver scalable AI capabilities
This role includes mentoring scientists and influencing technical direction within your team, while starting to grow and scale your impact
Who you are
- PhD or Master's degree with equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying production IR, NLP, ML, or GenAI systems using modern techniques
- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end AI project delivery in collaborative, cross-functional environments
- Outstanding technical judgment and evaluation expertise
- Excellent communication skills with ability to influence technical direction
- Experience developing novel methods for complex professional domains such as medical, tax, or law
- Expertise in RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, tool-using systems, or orchestration patterns
- Publications at relevant venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, or KDD
Company Information
[Employer hidden] is reinventing the way professionals work. The multinational media conglomerate provides answers that help professionals make better decisions to run smarter businesses. It targets those in complicated sectors that move society forward; tax, law, compliance, government, and media.
Founded over 165 years ago, the company is now powered by thousands of international journalists. This bandwidth guarantees speed, impartiality, and insight that have helped [Employer hidden] retain its position a market leader. To stay competitive with companies founded in the digital era, [Employer hidden] places emphasis on helping clients reinvent themselves for the newly disruptive digital age.
As well as investing in the coverage of growth markets India and China, and embarking on a number of fintech acquisitions, [Employer hidden] announced an expansion of its long-term partnership with the London Stock Exchange Group in 2023. Together, they plan to enhance the value of financial and market news services to LSEG customers, whilst delivering a superior experience to professionals around the world.