Data Scientist
Summary
Data Scientist at LexisNexis IP Solutions (RELX) in Central London building Protégé, an agentic AI assistant for patent analysis. Day to day: develop NLP/LLM/RAG and agentic solutions, design hybrid semantic-lexical search retrieval, and evaluate models over large-scale patent datasets using Python.
Salary: £45,000 - 85,000 per year
Requirements:- We require a degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Data Science.
- We require strong experience in machine learning, NLP, and LLM-based modeling.
- We require strong experience designing and running experiments, including model evaluation and iteration.
- We require strong coding skills in Python.
- We require experience with generative AI techniques such as prompt engineering and RAG.
- We require experience designing and evaluating hybrid search using semantic and lexical approaches, embeddings, and vector databases.
- We require experience designing agentic workflows and reasoning strategies, with hands-on experience applying agent frameworks such as Google ADK, LangChain, LangGraph, or AutoGen in real-world use cases.
- We require proficiency in data analysis tools.
- We require a strong foundation in statistics, modeling, and large-scale text processing.
- We develop and implement NLP, LLM, and generative AI approaches such as RAG, prompt strategies, and patent search.
- We define agentic workflows and reasoning strategies for multi-step IP tasks.
- We develop retrieval strategies, including hybrid search and evaluation metrics such as relevance and ranking quality.
- We analyse large-scale IP datasets to extract insights and improve model performance.
- We establish best practices for model evaluation, validation, and benchmarking.
- We translate experimental results into clear product recommendations and business impact.
- We collaborate with product, IP experts, and engineers to align solutions with user needs.
- Agentic AI
- AI
- LLM
- Machine Learning
- Python
- RAG
- Support
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We are LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solutions (LNIP), the global leader in patent intelligence, helping innovation teams, law firms, universities, and government agencies make better decisions faster with trusted patent data, advanced analytics, AI-powered insights, and purpose-built workflows. Protégé in PatentSight is our next-generation agentic AI assistant for strategic patent analysis, designed to replace complex filter-based workflows with natural language questions and structured, decision-ready insights. This full-time role is based in Farringdon, United Kingdom, and we offer a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence along with flexible working, wellbeing initiatives, generous holiday allowance, private medical benefits, pension, learning and development resources, and additional country-specific benefits.
last updated 36 week of 2026