Lead Applied Scientist

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October 17

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

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💵 $147k - $273k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧬 Research Scientist

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Thomson Reuters

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Finance • Media • SaaS

Thomson Reuters is a global content and technology company that provides professionals with reliable and accurate solutions across the legal, tax and accounting, international trade, and risk management sectors. The company offers a range of products including legal research tools, tax preparation software, compliance and regulatory solutions, and media services like Reuters for global news. With significant investments in generative AI, Thomson Reuters continues to innovate in helping professionals optimize their workflows and enhance their decision-making. Their platforms serve various industries such as law firms, corporations, tax professionals, and media organizations, providing essential tools that combine powerful technology with in-depth expert content.

10,000+ employees

Founded 2008

💸 Finance

📱 Media

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Design and deploy neuro-symbolic AI systems that seamlessly integrate neural learning with structured knowledge representation and ontologies • Build multi-modal models that synthesize insights across text, documents, structured data, and domain-specific artifacts • Explore the emergent intelligence at the intersection of GenAI and machine learning agents, creating autonomous systems that reason and act • Develop adaptive domain-specific reasoning capabilities that understand the nuances of legal, regulatory, and financial contexts • Own and lead end-to-end research deliverables—from ideation and experimentation to production deployment • Establish comprehensive AI evaluation frameworks, quality assessment methodologies, and observability systems that ensure reliability, fairness, and transparency • Leverage advanced information retrieval techniques, prompting workflows, and model training strategies to optimize solutions • Shape long-term AI strategy by providing strategic input to business and Labs leadership • Champion AI personalization and continual learning approaches that make products smarter with every interaction • Lead stakeholder engagement across UX, Product, and Engineering teams to align AI capabilities with user needs • Develop in-depth knowledge of customer problems and data • Mentor scientists and engineers on best practices in applied AI research and production ML systems • Build expertise in knowledge representation, domain reasoning, and agentic AI architectures • Foster a culture that balances scientific rigor with pragmatic delivery and customer value

🎯 Requirements

• PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, AI, or related field (or Master's with equivalent depth of experience) • 7+ years building production IR/NLP systems for commercial applications with demonstrated business impact • Strong software engineering capabilities with experience in production code, MLOps, and managed delivery pipelines • Proven track record translating complex, ambiguous problems into successful AI applications • Proficiency in AI evaluation, quality assessment, and observability for production systems • Neuro-symbolic AI architectures that combine learning and reasoning • Expertise in multi-modal modeling across diverse data types and representation formats • Hands-on experience with knowledge representation, ontologies, and semantic reasoning systems • Track record implementing AI personalization and continual learning that adapts to user behavior and feedback • Experience with adaptive domain-specific reasoning in specialized professional contexts • Familiarity with emergent intelligence at the intersection of GenAI and machine learning agents • Demonstrated ability to scale impact through others in applied research or advanced development settings • Outstanding communication skills

🏖️ Benefits

• Flex My Way supportive workplace policies • Flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year • Comprehensive benefit plans including flexible vacation • Two company-wide Mental Health Days off • Access to Headspace app • Retirement savings • Tuition reimbursement • Employee incentive programs • Resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing • 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