Data Scientist, ThoughtRiver
NLP
£75-85k
AI-powered contract review, analysis and workflows since 2016
Job no longer available
AI-powered contract review, analysis and workflows since 2016
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£75-85k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To put sophisticated contract review AI in the hands of lawyers.
Role
Who you are
- You will have a strong background in this field, with proven commercial experience working in a related field
- Interest in the application and domain - solving a challenge to generate real value
- A pragmatic mind with strong problem-solving skills
- Utilisation of the latest techniques available and relish collaboration with specialists; we partner with in both academia and AI-focussed businesses
- NLP (Essential)
- Machine learning (Essential)
- Python (Essential)
- Linguistics (Desirable)
- Unsupervised learning (Desirable)
- Graph technologies (networkx etc.) (Desirable)
- Experience with defining and working with ontologies (Desirable)
- Relation extraction (Desirable)
- Language modelling (Desirable)
- Test-driven development (Desirable)
- Docker (Desirable)
- Statistics (Desirable)
What the job involves
- Design ways to enhance and expand the capabilities of “Fathom”, the brain behind our software
- Drive Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning projects from concept to fruition, taking into account any competing forces and necessary trade-offs
- Devise and apply novel approaches to interpret legal documents
- Recommend relevant research, best practices, and their application to the product and legal domain
- Recommend annotation, modelling, and evaluation approaches for a wide range of supervised and unsupervised problems
- Work closely with Legal Experts and Product Owners to identify complex areas to interpret and methodologies to tackle them
- Drive to extract maximum value from our large corpus of legal data
Application process
- We're looking for an experienced and collaborative Data Scientist who has previous experience with NLP. This is a fantastic and unique opportunity for a pragmatic individual who enjoys solving complex challenges to work with a talented team of Engineers and add an enormous amount of value to our business. Ideally this role will be based in our Cambridge office, however, this is flexible for the right person.
Salary benchmarks
Our take
ThoughtRiver is a legal tech company that addresses a fundamental problem for in-house counsels and lawyers: you don’t know whether you need to read a contract without reading it. ThoughtRiver’s contract pre-screening technology uses machine learning and legal intelligence to automate the initial scan and analysis of contracts to produce an actionable recommendation on what to do next with the contract – and why.
Developed by ThoughtRiver’s lawyers and its partners who are domain experts, Lexible is a universal contract description framework that uses 1000s of data points to build a detailed picture of legal obligations and rights within any legal agreement. Lexible comes pre-programmed with thousands of questions posed by real lawyers. It works by first deploying a sophisticated language processing (NLP) engine developed in collaboration with Cambridge University. This allows it to understand the meaning of the words within an agreement. ThoughtRiver can then ask and answer thousands of questions according to their Lexible framework to build a detailed picture of the obligations and rights within the agreement. All of this data is then summarised into clear, actionable advice.
It also aims to promote partnerships with ThoughtRiver to legal service providers who can create new sources of income using its services. For example, by configuring the platform to answer specific questions and identify certain risks, legal service providers can allow their clients to review contracts on the ThoughtRiver platform through a sub-account. This review takes minutes, not hours, which creates an opportunity for a profitable and repeatable new revenue stream. The company aspires to make its technology available and accessible to companies around the world. ThoughtRiver works with in-house legal teams, general counsels and law firms.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2020
$10m
SERIES A
Oct 2018
$4.1m
SEED
Total funding: $14.1m
Company benefits
- Life assurance at 4x salary
- Private medical insurance with Aviva
- Employer pension with Scottish Widows
- Additional holiday for long term employees
- Birthday holiday and lunch
Company HQ
Cambridge, UK
Leadership
Jennifer Hill
(CEO)Seasoned COO and business leader with experience growing tech start-ups to profitability.
Tim Pullan
(Advisor & Founder)Associate Partner at Cambridge Management Consulting and Advisor at Circuit Medical Ltd. Previously a Partner at Taylor Vinters and was a Member of the ICT Committee at the British Chambers of Commerce.
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