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About the Role

Thomson Reuters Labs (TR Labs) is seeking a Lead Applied Scientist to set research strategy and lead initiatives that shape the company's AI/ML roadmap. This senior role focuses on creating industry-leading AI solutions for legal and tax & accounting professionals, driving innovation in areas like legal reasoning and document understanding, and turning new methods into customer-facing capabilities.

Responsibilities

Define the research strategy for focus areas and align it with Thomson Reuters' AI/ML roadmap across multiple product features.
Lead high-impact initiatives from early experimentation through to production-ready AI capabilities.
Drive innovation in specialized domains such as legal reasoning, document understanding, and knowledge graphs.
Design, evaluate, and advance RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, and tool-using systems for complex professional use cases.
Establish best practices, evaluation methodologies, and technical standards that raise the quality bar across Labs.
Develop a deep understanding of customer problems and the data that informs them, and translate that understanding into the right AI solutions.
Show how novel methods can influence product roadmaps and business outcomes.
Lead stakeholder engagement across product, engineering, and business teams.
Mentor and grow scientists across Labs, building scientific depth and leadership capability.
Provide thought leadership through internal forums, external publications, conferences, and industry communities.
Deliver production-quality code with well-managed software and MLOps practices.

Requirements

PhD or Master's degree with equivalent industry experience in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
7+ years of hands-on experience building production IR, NLP, ML, or GenAI systems using modern techniques.
Demonstrated experience leading through others in cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end AI capabilities.
Strong product mindset, with the ability to translate complex customer problems into successful AI applications.
Proven ability to demonstrate novel methods that influence product roadmaps and business outcomes.
Outstanding communication and analytical skills.
Deep expertise in RAG architectures, agentic frameworks, tool-using systems, and evaluation methodologies.
Significant experience developing novel methods for complex professional domains such as medical, tax, or law.
Publications at top-tier venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD).
Experience delivering production code with well-managed software/MLOps practices.

Skills

AI Research
Applied AI
Machine Learning
Legal Reasoning
Document Understanding
Knowledge Graphs
RAG Architectures
Agentic Frameworks
Tool-Using Systems
Evaluation Methodologies
Product Mindset
Communication Skills
Analytical Skills
Software Development
MLOps Practices

Location

US
Ontario, Canada

Work Type

Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Flexible work arrangements

Experience Level

Lead
Senior
7+ years of hands-on experience

Education Level

PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field

Salary/Compensations

USD $147,600 - $274,200
CAD $140,000 - $175,000

Benefits

Flex My Way policies
Work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year
Grow My Way programming
Skills-first approach
Flexible vacation
Two company-wide Mental Health Days off
Access to the Headspace app
Retirement savings with company match
Tuition reimbursement
Employee incentive programs
Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
Two paid volunteer days off annually
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.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.