Senior Applied Scientist - Search

Robin AI • New York, NY

156d • $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• A Ph.D. in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Strong expertise in machine learning algorithms, statistical methods, and optimisation techniques.
• Have a strong track record of scientific research (in any field), and have done work on information retrieval, knowledge representation and reasoning, structured knowledge extraction, or large-scale data analytics.
• You view research and engineering as two sides of the same coin. Every team member writes code, designs and runs experiments, and interprets results.
• Experience (or desire to be) working in multi-disciplinary teams.

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.
• Build infrastructure for running experiments and visualising results.
• Work with colleagues to communicate results internally and publicly.
• Stay updated with the latest research in machine learning, AI, knowledge representation and retrieval to bring innovative solutions to the table.
• Mentor junior researchers and contribute to building a collaborative, knowledge-sharing culture.

Benefits

• Salary: up to $200,000 per annum
• Hybrid schedule: We offer a flexible working schedule. #LI-HYBRID
• Equity package: Generous equity scheme - everyone gets to be an owner of Robin AI!
• Annual leave: 17 days PTO, in addition to the public holidays observed in the USA.
• Health: Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401k retirement.
• Growth opportunities: We prioritise promotions for high performers and help you to progress your career.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees