Lead Applied Scientist, IR/NLP

1 week ago

Seattle, Washington, United States Thomson Reuters Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Applied Scientist to join our team at Thomson Reuters Labs in the USA. As a key member of our research team, you will be responsible for designing and delivering AI solutions that enhance our products.

As a Lead Applied Scientist, you will leverage information retrieval techniques, prompting workflows, model training, and evaluation design to build and optimize solutions. Your work will ensure that AI technologies are effectively aligned with business objectives, driving product innovation and value.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Innovate and drive solution delivery as a technical leader
  • Be fully accountable for all research deliverables
  • Provide input to the business and Labs leadership on long-term AI strategy
  • Lead and drive stakeholder engagement with other functions (UX, Product, Tech)
  • Develop in-depth knowledge of customer problems and data
  • Maintain scientific and technical expertise in one or more relevant areas as demonstrated through product deliverables, published research, and intellectual property
  • Mentor and coach other scientists and engineers on best practices

About You

You're a fit for the role of Lead Applied Scientist if your background includes:

  • PhD in a relevant discipline or Master's plus a comparable level of experience
  • 7+ years hands-on experience building IR/NLP systems for commercial applications
  • Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery
  • Demonstrable experience translating complex problems into successful AI applications
  • Professional experience scaling yourself and leading through others, in an applied research setting
  • Outstanding communication, problem-solving, and analysis skills
  • Collaborating with Product, Engineering, and Business Stakeholders in an agile manner to demonstrate value and iterate with customer feedback
  • Publications at relevant venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, or KDD (Preferred)

What's in it for You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

  • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
  • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity, and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more
  • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters cafe networking
  • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact
  • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency

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