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Job Overview

At Relativity, were building a world?class Applied Science team to push the boundaries of intelligent systems in the legal domain. Were looking for a Staff Applied Scientist to join our team.

Agentic AI?systems that perceive, think, and act isnt a far?off vision for us. Its already embedded in how Relativity aiR makes document review faster, more accurate, and more scalable than ever before. Our models interpret legal intent, reason across documents, cite their decisions, and automate thousands of hours of workfreeing legal professionals to focus on what matters most.

This is your chance to contribute to the next generation of applied AI in legal tech : to build intelligent, safe, and defensible systems that scale human capability.

Why This Work Matters

Our Applied Science team are the brains behind Relativity aiR, the most scalable workflows in legal techautomating decision?making in document review, privilege detection, and case strategy. These arent just LLM wrappers; they are intelligent systems that reason, cite their thought process, and operate at scale across millions of documents.

Were solving problems that matter in one of the most high?stakes domains out there. Our customers rely on us to build systems they can trustsystems that are auditable, defensible, and responsible by design. Youll help us extend those systems, validating AI decisions statistically, simplifying complexity for users, and pushing the boundaries of whats possible while keeping experts in the loop.

Why Relativity?

Were not just building productswere building a better future for legal work. Our Applied Science team is 20 strong and growing. Youll be joining a thoughtful, kind, and technically excellent group who value impact, learning, and trust. This role is a chance to lead, contribute, and grow in a supportive and intellectually rich environment.

Job Description and Requirements

What Youll Do

• Write code that solves real customer problems and scales cleanlybuilt to be easy to ship, operate, and maintain.
• Collaborate with fellow Applied Scientists and with our Engineers, Product Managers, Designers, and Customers.
• Design and execute statistically sound experiments, then automate them into reusable benchmarks.
• Rapidly build AI? and ML?powered prototypes, then turn them into reliable, scalable production models.
• Select the right model for each taskbe it a decision tree or a frontier LLM.
• Stay grounded in evidence, and open to change.

Who You Are

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long?term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is between $197,000 and $295,000 . The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidates depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.

Suggested Skills : Algorithms, Computer Vision, Data Analysis, Data Science, Deep Learning, Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Python (Programming Language), Scientific Research

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