Senior Applied Scientist - Search
ABOUT ROBIN
Robin is on a mission to rebuild the legal industry — starting with making contracts simple for everyone. We are a pioneer in Legal AI, built on proprietary models, licensed data, and deep partnerships with Anthropic and AWS. Since 2019, we’ve expanded our footprint to 4 continents and have been supporting many of the world’s most successful businesses, including GE, Pfizer, KPMG, and UBS.
What will you do as a Senior Applied Scientist?
You will be leading, designing and experimenting with cutting edge research on how to best solve pressing issues surfacing in the legal domain. You will apply your expertise in machine learning, data science, and behavioural modelling to drive meaningful insights and innovations.
As AI agents become the norm in this industry, so does the need for efficient legal information retrieval, semantic search capabilities, and structured knowledge representation. Your work will bridge the gap between advanced search technologies and the complex information needs of the legal domain, making legal knowledge more accessible, navigable, and actionable.
Your day-to-day responsibilities:
- Develop and advance knowledge extraction and representation methods - we’re particularly interested in people keen on:
- structured knowledge extraction from legal texts and images
- knowledge graphs/ontology engineering
- legal knowledge base construction
- specialised embedding methods for multimodal content in the legal domain
- Develop methods for retrieval and reasoning over legal knowledge bases and systems (e.g. hybrid search approaches combining symbolic and neural techniques, query understanding and rewriting for legal search)
- Performing fine-tuning and reinforcement learning to teach language models how to interact with new information architectures.
- Building “hard” eval sets to help identify failure modes of how language models work with legal data.
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