Staff Data Scientist

About this role

Clio is the global leader in legal AI technology, empowering legal professionals and law firms of every size to work smarter, faster, and more securely.

We are transforming the legal experience for all by

bettering the lives of legal professionals

while

increasing access to justice

.

Summary:

## Job Duties

## Architectural Strategy & Forecasting Leadership:

• ## **Define the long-term forecasting roadmap** **and establish architectural standards for the entire company.**
• Lead the architectural design of complex ML systems, ensuring they are scalable, maintainable, and integrated seamlessly with the broader engineering stack.
• Architect reusable, "platform-level" forecasting frameworks to be used by other Data Science teams.

## High-Impact Modeling:

• Own the development of "tier-1" models—those with the highest business risk or technical complexity—using advanced statistical, deep learning, or Reinforcement Learning techniques.
• Tackle high-ambiguity challenges, such as integrating causal inference or deep learning into global forecasts.

## GenAI & LLM Innovation:

• Act as the subject matter expert for Generative AI; design RAG architectures, evaluate foundation models, and establish fine-tuning protocols for proprietary data.

## MLOps & Quality Assurance:

• Define the team’s technical standards for CI/CD, model versioning, and automated testing.
• Audit codebases to ensure high-performance and "production-ready" quality.

## Strategic Experimentation:

• Own the end-to-end design and evaluation of high-impact product and business experiments, establishing rigorous statistical standards and frameworks to ensure trustworthy, data-driven decisions.

## Technical Mentorship & Influence:

• Provide deep technical guidance to more junior Data Scientists.
• Influence the roadmap by identifying "blind spots" in current data strategy and proposing novel solutions.

## Cross-Functional Translation & Ethics:

• Partner wi...