Thomson Reuters is hiring an Applied Scientist – Research Products to advance AI capabilities within our product portfolio. In this role, you will apply your expertise in natural language processing to research, develop, and deploy AI solutions that deliver customer value and drive innovation.
What You'll Do
- Take ideas through the end-to-end model development lifecycle, including 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 and customer objectives into technical requirements.
- Create functional proof-of-concepts 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.
What We're Looking For
- A PhD or Master’s degree 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 diverse audiences.
- Experience designing and implementing solutions with large language models.
- Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery.
Nice to Have
- Relevant publications at ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD, or similar venues.
Team & Environment
You will work closely with product managers and domain experts to align technical development with business goals.
Benefits & Compensation
- Hybrid Work Model: Flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office).
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way policies, work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year.
- Career Development and Growth: Grow My Way programming and a skills-first approach.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: 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.
- Social Impact: Two paid volunteer days off annually, pro-bono consulting projects, and ESG initiatives.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid position based in Toronto.
Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer providing a drug-free workplace and makes reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs.
