# Lead Applied Scientist

**Company**: Thomson Reuters
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $147,600 USD - $274,200 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. Our mission is to create industry-leading AI solutions for Legal and Tax & Accounting professionals.

As a Lead Applied Scientist, you will set the research strategy and lead initiatives that shape Thomson Reuters' AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features. You will drive innovation in specialized domains such as legal reasoning, document understanding, and knowledge graphs. You will establish best practices and technical vision that other teams build on.

**Responsibilities**

- Define the research strategy for your focus areas and align it with Thomson Reuters' AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features.

- Lead high-impact initiatives from early experimentation through to production-ready AI capabilities.

- Drive innovation in specialized domains such as legal reasoning, document understanding, and knowledge graphs.

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

- Establish best practices, evaluation methodologies, and technical standards that raise the quality bar across Labs.

- Develop a deep understanding of customer problems and the data that informs them, and translate that understanding into the right AI solutions.

- Show how novel methods can influence product roadmaps and business outcomes.

- Lead stakeholder engagement across product, engineering, and business teams.

- Mentor and grow scientists across Labs, building scientific depth and leadership capability.

- Provide thought leadership through internal forums, external publications, conferences, and industry communities.

- Deliver production-quality code with well-managed software and MLOps practices.

**Qualifications**

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

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

- Demonstrated experience leading through others in cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end AI capabilities.

- Strong product mindset, with the ability to translate complex customer problems into successful AI applications.

- Proven ability to demonstrate novel methods that influence product roadmaps and business outcomes.

- Outstanding communication and analytical skills.

- Deep expertise in RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, tool-using systems, and evaluation methodologies.

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

- Publications at top-tier venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD).

- Experience delivering production code with well-managed software/MLOps practices.

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

- 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
- RAG architectures
- agentic frameworks
- tool-using systems
- evaluation methodologies
- NLP
- ML
- GenAI

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