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Data Scientist (NLP Specialist) – Legal and Compliance (Hybrid)

Montreal, Canada💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-17 → 2026-09-27

Core

Design and deploy advanced AI/NLP models and GenAI solutions to automate compliance monitoring and detect financial crimes like money laundering and insider trading.

Role type

Director-level NLP specialist (hands-on IC with strategy)

Builds

High-performance surveillance systems, GenAI automation tools, and knowledge graph analytics for financial crime detection

Domain

Financial services, Legal & Compliance, Non-Financial Risk

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

NLP, Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic AI architecture, knowledge graph analytics, Python, Java, LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK, PyTorch, HuggingFace, SDLC, GIT, Vector Stores, Linux, SPARQL, Graph Databases

Preferred skills

Financial markets knowledge (Compliance, Fraud analytics), LLM-as-a-Judge techniques, benchmark creation and evaluation

Technologies

LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK, PyTorch, HuggingFace, SPARQL

Responsibilities

Design high-performance systems leveraging LLMs and RAG; Create GenAI-based solutions to automate manual tasks; Conduct research to identify novel methods for enhancing analytical solutions; Collaborate with stakeholders to promote adoption of AI/ML/NLP capabilities; Champion innovative approaches to improve detection of suspicious activity

Seniority

Director, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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