Staff Applied Scientist

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New York / $220000 - $240000 annum

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Salary
SALARY:

$220000 - $240000

Location

LOCATION

New York

Job Type
JOB TYPE

Permanent

Staff Applied Scientist - NLP

Salary: $220,000 - $240,000

Location: Remote

About the Company

Our client is an established technology leader at the forefront of AI innovation within highly specialized professional domains. Their mission is to transform complex information ecosystems, such as legal, financial, regulatory, and editorial, through intelligent automation and advanced language understanding.

Operating with the agility of a startup and the resources of a global organization, their dedicated research division functions as an innovation engine. It's a place where cutting-edge theory meets real-world impact, supported by a collaborative network of top-tier academic institutions and subject matter experts.

The Role

As a Staff Applied Scientist, you will take a leading role in designing and deploying advanced NLP systems that power high-value solutions for enterprise customers. This is a highly strategic position with strong visibility, direct collaboration with executive stakeholders, and a mandate to drive both scientific and business impact.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Architect and implement next-generation language models to support professional document understanding, semantic retrieval, and contextual reasoning
  • Lead high-priority initiatives in domain adaptation, efficient inference, and context-aware processing
  • Own the full ML lifecycle from ideation to production deployment, ensuring scalability and performance
  • Serve as a thought leader in the AI research community by publishing at top conferences and translating academic advancements into commercial applications
  • Collaborate with product and engineering leads to align technical direction with long-term strategy

Qualifications:

  • PhD in NLP, Machine Learning, Computational Linguistics, or a related field
  • A strong and consistent record of publications in premier venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICML, etc.)
  • 5+ years of experience building and deploying production NLP/ML systems with measurable impact
  • Deep understanding of transformer architectures, semantic search, retrieval systems, and model optimization
  • Hands-on expertise with modern ML tools and frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, HuggingFace, LangChain)
  • Experience working with large-scale document corpora and solving complex information extraction challenges

The Benefits

  • Competitive base salary of $230,000 - $250,000
  • Strong performance bonus
  • Remote-first environment with flexible work options
  • High-visibility, high-impact work with meaningful real-world applications
  • Opportunity to lead groundbreaking work at the intersection of science, technology, and industry

How to Apply

To express interest, please submit your CV, a list of publications, and a brief summary of your most impactful NLP project to Cassie via the Apply link.

Keywords: Staff Applied Scientist, NLP, Language Models, Information Extraction, Document Intelligence, Transformer Architectures, Semantic Search, Domain Adaptation, Research to Production, Efficient Inference, LangChain, HuggingFace, PyTorch, Retrieval-Augmented Generation

CONTACT

Cassie Wandell

Recruitment Consultant

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