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.