Applied Scientist – Research Products

Thomson Reuters; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international information firm in Toronto is looking for an Applied Scientist specializing in NLP to enhance their AI solutions. The role involves end-to-end model development, collaborating with stakeholders, and practicing clean coding under a flexible hybrid work model. Candidates must hold a PhD or Master’s degree and have experience in NLP systems. This position offers a competitive salary range of $80,000 to $100,000 CAD, along with comprehensive benefits that support work-life balance and career development.

Benefits

Flexible work arrangements

Career development programs

Comprehensive benefits

Mental health support

Paid volunteer days

Qualifications

• Experience researching, building, and evaluating NLP systems.
• Solid engineering skills for prototyping.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate AI concepts.

Responsibilities

• Take ideas through the end-to-end model development lifecycle.
• Work with stakeholders to define scope and translate requirements.
• Write clean code and participate in code reviews.

Skills

NLP expertise

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Education

PhD or Master’s in a relevant discipline

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Applied Scientist – Research Products

About the Role

Applied Scientists are experts in NLP, who contribute to the research and development of AI solutions that enhance Thomson Reuters' products. Their work ensures AI technologies are aligned with business objectives to drive innovation and deliver customer value.

Responsibilities

• Take ideas through the end-to-end model development lifecycle (task design, data creation, training, evaluation and model governance)
• Think creatively about new capabilities generative AI can unlock for our customers
• Work with stakeholders to define scope, determine feasibility, and translate business/customer objectives into technical requirements
• Create functional POCs to test new capabilities and product concepts
• Write clean code, participate in code reviews, and contribute to well-managed software delivery in a production environment

About You

Basic qualifications

• PhD or Master’s in a relevant discipline
• Experience researching, building, and evaluating NLP systems
• Solid engineering skills for prototyping; experience contributing to a shared codebase; and familiarity with workflows for remote development (AWS, Azure or similar)
• Outstanding communication, problem-solving, and analysis skills
• Demonstrated ability to communicate AI concepts to a diverse audience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing solutions with large language models
• Relevant publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or similar.
• Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery.

What’s in it For You?

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) 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, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• 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. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• 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. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. For Ontario, Canada, the base compensation range for this role is $80,000 CAD - $100,000 CAD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug‑free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.