Motion Recruitment

Senior Data Scientist - Boston

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This role is for a Senior Data Scientist in Boston, offering a 6-month contract with potential for permanent placement. Key skills include data science, NLP, and AI. A bachelor’s degree is required; a master’s is preferred.
🌎 - Country
United States
💱 - Currency
$ USD
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💰 - Day rate
720
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🗓️ - Date
August 5, 2026
🕒 - Duration
More than 6 months
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🏝️ - Location
Hybrid
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📄 - Contract
Unknown
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🔒 - Security
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
Boston, MA
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Data Science #AI (Artificial Intelligence) #NLP (Natural Language Processing) #ML (Machine Learning) #Scala
Role description
About The Role An established enterprise technology company is adding a Senior Data Scientist to its Boston, Massachusetts team. The role follows a hybrid schedule and supports the development of intelligent products for professionals who rely on large volumes of legal and regulatory information. You will investigate, prototype, and operationalize advanced language-based systems, with particular attention to RAG, autonomous AI workflows, and document intelligence. The ideal candidate combines scientific rigor with practical product judgment and can determine whether an AI system is accurate, useful, and ready for enterprise use. Core Qualifications At least 8 years of experience applying data science or machine learning to real-world products Advanced understanding of LLM behavior, NLP techniques, and generative model applications Proven ability to design retrieval strategies for unstructured and highly specialized content Experience building AI agents, orchestration logic, or tool-using model workflows Knowledge of scalable model services and distributed data or AI platforms Experience defining experiments, benchmarks, and quality measures for production AI systems Additional Qualifications Background working with legal information, regulatory content, or another knowledge-heavy industry is beneficial Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field is required; a master’s degree is preferred Ability to communicate model tradeoffs and findings to engineering, product, and business stakeholders Your Responsibilities How You Will Contribute Own data science initiatives from exploratory analysis and prototyping through launch assessment Construct retrieval and ranking approaches that ground language-model responses in authoritative source material Build analytical and modeling solutions for case analysis, statutory interpretation, and document summarization Establish testing frameworks that measure factuality, relevance, robustness, and end-user value Collaborate with platform teams to integrate data science solutions into secure, high-volume applications Engagement Details Initial 6-month contract with the potential to convert to a permanent position What To Expect Hybrid schedule based in Boston, Massachusetts Hands-on ownership of sophisticated generative AI and information-retrieval initiatives Access to large-scale professional content and challenging language-data problems Cross-functional partnership with AI platform, software engineering, and product groups Compensation And Benefits Will Be Discussed With Qualified Candidates Candidates must have current and future authorization to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Posted By: Nick Ramler