# Senior Applied Scientist

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $146,800 USD - $272,600 USD
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Thomson Reuters Labs (TR Labs) is the AI Research & Development arm of Thomson Reuters. We experiment, we build, we deliver.

As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will own end-to-end applied research projects that drive product innovation in legal intelligence, tax automation, and regulatory compliance.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead end-to-end applied research projects from early experimentation through to scalable, production-ready AI capabilities.

- Drive product innovation in legal intelligence, tax automation, and regulatory compliance.

- Translate business challenges into technical solutions and determine their feasibility.

- Design and evaluate RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, and tool-using systems for complex professional use cases.

- Apply senior-level technical judgment and rigorous evaluation to ensure solutions meet the quality bar.

- Develop novel methods for complex professional domains such as medical, tax, or law.

- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver AI projects from concept to customer.

- Influence technical direction within your team through clear communication.

- Mentor scientists and help them grow.

- Start to grow and scale your impact beyond individual projects.

**Qualifications**

- PhD or Master's degree with equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.

- 5+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying production IR, NLP, ML, or GenAI systems using modern techniques.

- Demonstrated experience leading end-to-end AI project delivery in collaborative, cross-functional environments.

- Outstanding technical judgment and evaluation expertise.

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical direction.

- Experience developing novel methods for complex professional domains such as medical, tax, or law.

- Expertise in RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, tool-using systems, or orchestration patterns.

- Publications at relevant venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, or KDD.

**What's in it For You?**

- Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.

- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities.

- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions.

- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute.

- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Science
- Machine Learning
- AI
- RAG architectures
- agentic frameworks
- tool-using systems

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