About the Role
Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking an experienced scientist with a strong product mindset to lead a high-performing team developing transformative solutions for tax, audit, and accounting professionals. Our team is designing the next generation of agentic AI for tax & accounting professionals, creating entirely new workflows addressing fundamental industry challenges.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a high-performing applied science team working on agentic AI for tax and accounting professionals
- Drive the design and delivery of AI features that meaningfully reimagine customer workflows in high-stakes, accuracy-critical settings
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to leadership on long-term AI strategy, partnerships, and capability roadmap
- Influence product strategy through deep technical knowledge combined with insight from usage data, quality metrics, and customer feedback
- Continuously improve ways of working across R&D and product engineering in a fast-paced, tightly embedded delivery cycle
- Engage domain and subject matter experts in concept development and design workshops
- Foster a team culture of innovation, rigour, collaboration, and continuous learning
Requirements
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field or Master's with a strong science background and relevant publication record
- 10+ years of hands-on industry experience building AI/ML systems for commercial applications
- Recent, direct hands-on experience developing LLM-based and agentic AI systems for production, non-trivial use cases
- 5+ years of experience managing and developing high-performing applied science or ML teams
- Demonstrated success in product- or customer-facing roles, with business and customer impact as the primary measure of success
- Technical depth in AI/ML sufficient to provide effective challenge, expand on team ideas, and support high-quality technical decision-making
Skills
- AI/ML systems
- LLM-based systems
- Agentic AI systems
- Information retrieval
- NLP
- Complex vertical domains
- Taxonomy induction
- Document understanding
- Agentic search
- Knowledge graphs
- Neuro-symbolic approaches
- AI agent evaluation
- Language model training with verifiable rewards
- Synthetic data generation
- AI solutions for tax, legal, audit, or accounting domains
Location
- United States
Work Type
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Flexible work arrangements
Experience Level
- 10+ years of hands-on industry experience
- 5+ years of experience managing and developing teams
Education Level
- PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a closely related field
- Master's degree with equivalent depth
Salary/Compensations
- $198,200 USD - $368,000 USD
Benefits
- Flex My Way policies
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
- Continuous learning and skill development
- Grow My Way programming
- Skills-first approach
- Flexible vacation
- Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
- Access to the Headspace app
- Retirement savings
- Tuition reimbursement
- Employee incentive programs
- Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
- Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging
- Two paid volunteer days off annually
- Pro-bono consulting projects
- Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
- Market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs
- Competitive 401k plan with company match
- Competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Parental leave
- Sabbatical leave
- Optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance
- Optional life and AD&D insurance
- Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts
- Fitness reimbursement
- Access to Employee Assistance Program
- Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit
- Access to 529 Plan
- Commuter benefits
- Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
About the Company
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
