About the Role
As a Research Engineer at Thomson Reuters Labs, you will be part of a global interdisciplinary team of experts. You will have a direct impact on our company and develop products and features that will delight our customers. We experiment, build, and deliver, obsessing over our customers through applied research and development of new products and technologies.
Responsibilities
- Applying modern software development practices, you will be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, designing, building, testing and delivering high-quality solutions.
- You will create large scale data processing pipelines to help researchers build and train novel machine learning algorithms.
- You will develop high performing scalable systems in the context of large online delivery environments.
- Working in a collaborative team-oriented environment, you will share information, value diverse ideas, and partner with cross-functional and remote teams.
- With a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, you will deliver timely solutions.
- You are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies.
- You will contribute innovative ideas, create solutions, and be accountable for end-to-end deliveries.
- Through dynamic engagement and communication with cross-functional partners and team members, you will effectively articulate ideas and collaborate on technical developments.
Requirements
- A Bachelor of Science degree, computer science or related field
- At least 2 years software engineering experience, ideally in the context of machine learning and natural language processing
- Experience and understanding of Python software development stacks and ecosystems, ideally also experience with other programming languages and ecosystems.
- Ability to understand, apply, integrate and deploy Machine Learning capabilities and techniques into other systems.
- Take pride in writing clean, reusable, maintainable and well-tested code
- A desire to learn and embrace new and emerging technology
- Familiarity with probabilistic models and understand the mathematical concepts underlying machine learning methods
- Proficiency in automation, system monitoring, and cloud-native applications, with familiarity in AWS or Azure (or a related cloud platform)
- Previous exposure to Natural Language Processing (NLP) problems and have familiarity with key tasks such as Named Entity Recognition (NER), Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, etc.
- Ability to understand and translate between language and methodologies used both in research and engineering fields
- Ability to take and integrate Machine Learning solutions to production-grade software
Skills
- Python software development stacks and ecosystems
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Numpy
- Scipy
- Pandas
- Dask
- spaCy
- NLTK
- scikit-learn
- Probabilistic models
- Automation
- System monitoring
- Cloud-native applications
- AWS
- Azure
- Named Entity Recognition (NER)
- Information Extraction
- Information Retrieval
Location
- New York City, CA
- San Francisco, CA
- Los Angeles, CA
- Irvine, CA
- McLean, VA
- Washington, DC
- Ontario, Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid Work Model
- Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Experience Level
- At least 2 years software engineering experience
Education Level
- Bachelor of Science degree, computer science or related field
Salary/Compensations
- $101,600 USD - $188,700 USD
- $88,200 USD - $163,800 USD
- $80,000 CAD - $100,000 CAD
Benefits
- 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
- 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.
- Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
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.
- Thomson Reuters makes reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities, including veterans with disabilities, and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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