NLP Engineer

• Writes new software, makes modifications to existing software, or integrates software applications and modules in accordance with agreed upon specifications, created in partnership with others
• Creates and executes unit testing and integration testing ensuring software meets requirements.
• Contributes to the creation of design. May lead the design of less complex components.
• May provide technical support to operations or other development teams.
• Creates, reviews, and maintains all required technical documentation/ manual related to assigned software to ensure supportability and reuse.
• Reviews work of peers and more junior developers.
• Provides wider feedback into performance
• Assists in identification and implementation of short-term and long-term solution options, including risk assessments.
• Assists with improvements to prevent problems, including problem resolution workflow.
• Participates in remediation solutions.
• Participates in project planning sessions with team members to analyze development requirements, provide design options, and provide work breakdown and estimates of work.
• Provides work breakdown and estimates for small software development tasks.
• Provides timely status updates for areas of individual responsibilities within projects to supervisor
• Actively participates in team and status meetings.
• Demonstrates software as requested
• Develops software using disciplined software development processes, adhering to team/company standards and software best practice guidelines, and corporate policies.

NLP Engineer – Reuters Technology:  

The Reuters Technology team supports Reuters’ staff and products throughout the News production lifecycle - from discovery of newsworthy events, to researching the story, through publication and delivery of content to our customers. We are working to improve Reuters news production, automation, and content delivery and we are seeking an experienced and motivated engineers to help build and evolve our technology platforms. Do you want to learn what drives news, and learn about the depth and breadth of Thomson Reuters' content? Come join us! 

In this role you will work closely with UI engineers and product team members to prioritize and deliver new technology components and capabilities. You will help us build these new capabilities in the public cloud-based to drive improvements in content production workflows, news content formats, and news distribution and display in our various web-based products. 

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Own large and complex technical projects that interact with several other systems 

• Participate and contribute to requirements analysis 

• Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture 

• Write clean, scalable, and testable code using modern programming languages to support application frontends 

• Test and deploy applications and systems 

• Revise, update, refactor and debug code 

• Help recruit, hire, and mentor your peers and other engineers as we grow 

Qualification: 

Education: Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering or related field of study, or equivalent experience 

Requirements: 

• You are curious, want to know how things work, and learn new skills 

• 3+ yrs. experience with NET Core (preferably in Linux) 

• AWS knowledge (SNS/SQS, ECR/ECS, EC2, S3 minimum demonstrable programmer knowledge especially in .NET and/or Python)  

• Docker containerization/microservice architecture in cloud environments  

• Experience with websockets, REST  

• Detailed understanding of webpages at a source level, DoM (xpath, css selectors), basic javascript  

• Agile development and delivery 

• Excellent communication skills 

• Ability and passion to learn modern technologies quickly 

• Team player and self-starter 

Desired: 

• Natural Language Processing techniques 

• Machine Learning techniques (e.g. SVM, word2vec/doc2vec, Random Forest, BERT) 

• Experience with Selenium 

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent 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 industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled 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 25,000 employees across more than 75 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 drug-free 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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