Are you a curious and openminded individual with an interest in stateoftheart machine learning engineering and research Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Research Engineer with a passion for solving challenging machine learning problems in a datarich 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 longterm research for the future.
As a Senior Research Engineer you will be part of a diverse global team of experts. We hire worldleading 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 stateoftheart technical infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to contribute to research publications as well as contribute to our proprietary AI model research & development. Thomson Reuters Labs is known for consistently delivering successful datadriven Artificial Intelligence solutions in support of highgrowth products that serve Thomson Reuters customers in new and exciting ways.
About The Role
In this opportunity as Senior Research Engineer you will:
Innovate: You will have the opportunity to try new and/or innovate new ML/NLP/IR/GenAI approaches and enjoy mentoring by worldleading experts. You will contribute ideas and work on solving realworld challenges using a wealth of data not otherwise available.
Engineer and Develop: You can be involved in the entire research & model development lifecycle brainstorming designing building and delivering highquality software frameworks that enables your colleagues to do worldclass research.
Collaborate: Working on a collaborative global team of engineers and scientists both within Thomson Reuters and our academic patterns at worldleading universities.
About You
You're a fit for the role if your background includes:
Required Qualifications:
- Relevant degree in a technical discipline.
- Work experience in a challenging engineering setting building highquality software frameworks for research.
- Excellent programming debugging and system design skills.
- Excellent communication skills to report and present software designs and findings clearly both orally and in writing.
- Curious and innovative disposition capable of devising novel wellfounded algorithmic solutions to relevant problems.
- Selfdriven attitude and ability to work with limited supervision.
- Familiarity with cloud tools such as Amazon AWS MS Azure or Google Cloud.
- Comfortable working in fastpaced agile environments managing uncertainty and ambiguity.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Contributions to publications at relevant venues such as NeurIPS ICML ICLR ACL EMNLP NAACL ICLR or similar.
- Experience working on relevant stateoftheart engineering topics relevant to large language model (LLMs) research such as distributed computing building of scalable data pipeline systems automated evaluation systems or indepth knowledge of GPUs and parallel computing platforms such as CUDA.
- Previous experience working on largescale machine learning systems.
- Strong software and/or infrastructure engineering skills as evidenced by code contributions to popular opensource libraries.
Other key points:
Plenty of data compute and highimpact problems: Our engineers and scientists get to play with large datasets and discover new capabilities and insights in support of our highimpact 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 over 60000 TBs worth of legal regulatory news and tax data. We also provide access to all major cloud computing platforms to our researchers and engineers.
What's in it For You
You will join our inclusive culture of worldclass talent where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:
- Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (23 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our officebased roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected
- Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for worklife balance: flexible vacation two companywide 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 awardwinning reputation for equality diversity and inclusion flexibility worklife balance and more.
- Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects crosscompany; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
- Social Impact: Ten employeedriven 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. 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.
Do you want to be part of a team helping reinvent the way knowledge professionals work How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent just and inclusive future At Thomson Reuters we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industryleading products and services include highly specialized informationenabled software and tools for legal tax accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising advocating negotiating governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26000 employees across more than 70 countries where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. 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.
Accessibility
As a global business we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our 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/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drugfree workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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