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Senior Applied Scientist, Search & Information Retrieval

Canada

$100k-$145k / year

full-timesenior Remotelegal

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll design and deploy advanced search and information retrieval systems for legal and professional intelligence platforms. You'll own the full lifecycle from research to production deployment, solving real-world NLP and IR challenges with direct global impact.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Design and deploy large-scale IR systems focusing on search relevance and ranking
  • Own end-to-end NLP/IR model development, from research to production
  • Develop evaluation frameworks for offline and online metrics
  • Translate business needs into technical requirements and delivery milestones

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • PhD in CS, AI, NLP, IR, or related field (or Master's with equivalent industry experience)
  • 5+ years building and deploying production-grade IR and NLP systems
  • Strong publication record in top-tier venues (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NeurIPS, SIGIR)
  • Proficiency in Python with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
  • Cloud ML platforms (AWS SageMaker, AzureML)
  • Legal-domain search/NLP experience

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Competitive compensation with base salary $100k-$145k CAD plus bonus
  • ๐ŸŒ Flexible work arrangements including 'work from anywhere' up to 8 weeks/year
  • ๐Ÿฉบ Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision, life, disability)
  • ๐Ÿ“ˆ Retirement savings and employee stock purchase plan
  • ๐Ÿง  Continuous learning programs focused on AI and future-ready skills

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Recruiter screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Hiring manager interviewยท 45 min
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