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Senior Research Scientist (Foundational Research, Machine Learning)

Thomas Reuters

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Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Research Scientist to tackle complex machine learning challenges in a data-rich environment. This role offers the chance to experiment with cutting-edge ML/NLP techniques and collaborate with leading experts while contributing to impactful research. You will engage in the full model development lifecycle, from brainstorming to delivering high-quality reports at international conferences. With access to vast datasets and cloud computing resources, you will play a pivotal role in driving AI advancements that enhance products and services for a diverse clientele.

Benefits

Hybrid Work Model
Flexible Vacation
Mental Health Days
Tuition Reimbursement
Employee Incentive Programs
Career Development Opportunities
Paid Volunteer Days
Access to Cloud Platforms
Work from Anywhere for 8 Weeks
Comprehensive Benefit Plans

Qualifications

  • PhD student or recent graduate with research experience in a technical discipline.
  • First-author publications at relevant venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ACL.
  • Self-driven attitude and ability to work with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

  • Innovate new ML/NLP approaches and mentor with experts.
  • Participate in the entire research & model development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with global teams and academic partners.

Skills

Machine Learning
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Generative AI (GenAI)
Algorithm Development
Data Analysis
Communication Skills

Education

PhD in a Technical Discipline

Tools

Amazon AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud

Job description

Are you a curious and open-minded individual with an interest in state-of-the-art foundational machine learning research? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Senior Research Scientist with a passion for solving challenging machine learning problems in a data-rich, complex academic environment.

What does Thomson Reuters Labs do? We experiment, we build, we deliver. We support the organization and our product teams through foundational research and development of new products and technologies. The Labs innovate collaboratively across our core segments in Legal, Tax & Accounting, Government, and Reuters News. We undertake a diverse portfolio of projects while investing in long-term research for the future.

As a Senior Research Scientist, you will be part of a diverse global team of experts. We hire world-leading specialists in ML/NLP/GenAI, as well as Engineering, to drive the company’s leading internal AI model development, fueled by an unprecedented wealth of data and powered by state-of-the-art technical infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to publish your research findings as well as contribute to our proprietary AI model research & development. Thomson Reuters Labs is known for consistently delivering successful data-driven Artificial Intelligence solutions in support of high-growth products that serve Thomson Reuters customers in new and exciting ways.


About the Role

In this opportunity, as Senior Research Scientist you will:

Innovate: You will have the opportunity to try new and/or innovate new ML/NLP/IR/GenAI approaches and enjoy mentoring by world-leading experts. You will contribute ideas and work on solving real-world challenges using a wealth of data not otherwise available.

Experiment and Develop: You can be involved in the entire research & model development lifecycle, brainstorming, building, testing, and delivering high-quality reports at leading international academic conferences.

Collaborate: Working on a collaborative global team of research engineers both within Thomson Reuters and our academic patterns at world-leading universities.

About You

You're a fit for the role if your background includes:


Required Qualifications:

  • PhD student or recent graduate with research experience in a technical discipline.

  • First-author publications at relevant venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR, or similar.

  • Excellent communication skills to report and present research findings and developments clearly, both orally and in writing.

  • Curious and innovative disposition capable of devising novel, well-founded algorithmic solutions to relevant problems.

  • Self-driven attitude and ability to work with limited supervision.

  • Comfortable working in fast-paced, agile environments, managing uncertainty and ambiguity.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working on relevant state-of-the-art research topics in large language models (LLMs) such as alignment, hallucination detection and reduction, model compression, data-centric techniques, efficient fine-tuning, long context length, synthetic data, combination of LLMs with knowledge graphs etc.

  • Familiarity with cloud tools such as Amazon AWS, MS Azure, or Google Cloud.

  • Previous experience working on large-scale machine learning systems.

  • Strong software and/or infrastructure engineering skills, as evidenced by code contributions to popular open-source libraries.


Other key points:


Plenty of data, compute, and high-impact problems: Our scientists and engineers get to play with large datasets and discover new capabilities and insights in support of our high-impact products and customers. Thomson Reuters is best known for the globally respected Reuters News agency, but our company is also the leading source of information for legal, corporate, and tax & Accounting professionals. We have over60,000 TBsworth of legal, regulatory, news, and tax data. We also provide access to all major cloud computing platforms to our researchers and engineers.

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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.


About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness, and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

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. More information on requesting an accommodation here.

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