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Lead Applied Scientist, Public Sector Investigations

Illinois, US🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $164,000–$164,000🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-26

Core

Setting technical direction for AI systems in public-sector investigations (FOIA, public records, government investigations) to ensure reliable, defensible evidence discovery for legal professionals.

Role type

Lead Applied Scientist (Public Sector Investigations)

Builds

AI systems for retrieval, review, and evaluation in public-sector legal workflows

Domain

Legal Technology / Public Sector Investigations / Generative AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Applied AI/ML, System Reliability, Information Retrieval, Data Governance, Privacy Standards, Technical Leadership, Evaluation Design, Software Engineering Judgment

Preferred skills

Government data experience, Legal technology interest, Agentic harness development, IR system development, Large-scale reliable AI

Technologies

Generative AI, AI Review Systems, Agentic Harnesses

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and sequence science for the workstream; Review and elevate other scientists' designs and evaluations; Own AI system readiness from framing to production monitoring; Act as escalation point for hard technical calls; Build prototypes and carry initiatives to production at scale

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with technical leadership

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