Natural Language Processing (NLP) Engineer - Monaco Solicitors｜Meet.jobs

Are you a senior NLP specialist based in the UK who wants to get in on the ground floor of an Innovate UK-funded legal tech startup seeking to use technology and AI to radically expand access to justice?

If you thrive on rapid innovation, working in a motivated, positive team, and the freedom to use all of your skills and knowledge to succeed, then we would love to hear from you*.

(*Previous applicants for the Senior Data Science role will be automatically considered, so need not reapply)

The Team

Monaco Solicitors is a highly accomplished law firm, with legal work extensively featured in national media. We are also leading the charge of tech disrupting the employment law sector.

Our in-house tech team is growing steadily. We would like to strengthen our data science/natural language processing side in order to help deliver the law to the people who need it most but who can't afford it. Our ambition is to deliver law globally in a new and user friendly way, using the power of artificial intelligence.

The Work

We are looking for someone who can not only think scientifically, but who has a proven track record of turning those ideas into tangible results.

You will be helping to build an entirely new market from people who are currently unable to access justice. We are presently developing a series of new, low-cost or free legal tools harnessing the power of data. These products currently include Virtual Lawyer and Virtual Judge:

Virtual Lawyer is an automated legal letter writing service which drafts correspondence in the style of a lawyer. The data set is our corpus of legal letters created by our extremely talented lawyers. See it on https://www.monacosolicitors.co.uk/virtual-lawyer/.

We are delighted that the huge potential of this innovation has been recognised in the form of a significant grant by Innovate UK - a government funded public body dedicated to supporting UK businesses to develop and realise the potential of new ideas, including those from the UK's world-class research base.

Virtual Judge is a case assessment tool which uses a data set of publicly available legal judgments to give the user statistical analyses of various aspects of their case, with a view to the parties reaching out-of-court settlement. External funding is being sought for this innovation.

You will be working on these largely greenfield projects with the freedom to use your initiative and experience to create the methods needed to power these tools, and helping envision our various other data driven projects.

Required skills and qualifications:

• At least 4 years’ practical experience across the whole of the data science lifecycle.

• At least 2 years’ practical experience of applying NLP to real life problems in a knowledge-based business environment.

• Strong knowledge across a range of industry standard data science tools, frameworks and languages such as python, BERT, NLTK. You will have a large degree of freedom in deciding the best fit for the job.

• Master’s degree or professional equivalent in NLP, computational linguistics or similar from a recognised institution of higher education. (if you are newly qualified then this role is not for you).

• Fluent written English.

• Residence within easy reach of London as this is not a totally remote role.

• A UK work permit/visa.

• Entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to get stuck in with minimal supervision.

Nice to have:

• Interest in helping people to access justice
• Legal sector / legal tech experience
• Experience working in a startup environment (small team, scrum + Jira)
• Project/people/supplier management experience
• PhD in data science, NLP, or similar from a recognised institution

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Sick leave pay
• Copious home working, plus unlimited office working
• Unique office space www.peckhamlevels.org
• Gym membership
• Onsite yoga classes, table football and table tennis
• Social gatherings and a collaborative environment
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Making a tangible difference in the world

Location
For when you come to the office: we are based in the creative hub of Peckham Levels, close to Peckham Rye station. It’s 9 minutes by train from London Bridge, 15 minutes from Victoria & Clapham Junction, and 24 minutes from St Pancras.

Job Type: Full-time permanent
Salary: £70-90k+ depending on experience