Lead AI Scientist – Retrieval & Knowledge AI

Thomson Reuters; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Model

Career Development

Industry Competitive Benefits

Social Impact

Job summary

Thomson Reuters in New York seeks a recognized AI leader with deep expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and Generative AI to define technical vision and drive production-grade AI solutions. You will mentor teams and influence strategy across research, engineering, and product.

With 8+ years of industry experience and a PhD in a related field, you will shape product-ready AI capabilities, including knowledge graphs, retrieval optimization, and agentic frameworks, while collaborating with

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, AI, ML, NLP, Information Retrieval, or related field.
• 8+ years of industry experience building and deploying production AI systems at scale.
• Proven experience delivering search, retrieval, NLP, knowledge graph, or Generative AI solutions.
• Strong product mindset and ability to translate customer problems into AI applications.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing strategy across research, engineering, and product.
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the technical vision for AI-powered search, discovery, and knowledge systems.
• Lead development of retrieval, ranking, semantic search, RAG, and agentic AI capabilities.
• Design and optimize retrieval architectures using embeddings, reranking, hybrid search, knowledge graphs, and contextual retrieval techniques.
• Establish evaluation frameworks and benchmarks for search quality, relevance, grounding, and answer quality.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to translate customer needs into scalable AI solutions.
• Provide technical leadership on AI strategy, roadmap planning, and investment decisions.
• Mentor scientists and engineers while promoting best practices across the organization.

Skills

PhD-AI Leadership

8+ years experience

Information Retrieval

Product mindset

Cross-functional leadership

communication skills

Education

PhD in Computer Science / AI / NLP / IR

Tools

Python

PyTorch

Hugging Face

MLOps

Job description

Thomson Reuters in New York seeks a recognized AI leader with deep expertise in information retrieval, NLP, and Generative AI to define technical vision and drive production-grade AI solutions. You will mentor teams and influence strategy across research, engineering, and product.

With 8+ years of industry experience and a PhD in a related field, you will shape product-ready AI capabilities, including knowledge graphs, retrieval optimization, and agentic frameworks, while collaborating with