Senior Applied Scientist - Research Product

Thomson Reuters

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(278)

Toronto, Canada

Why you should apply for a job to Thomson Reuters:

  • Ranked as one of the Best Companies for Women in 2020
  • 4.2/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.6/5 in supportive management
  • 83% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 89% would recommend this company to other women
  • 91% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Flex My Way Program - This program builds upon our flexible work/hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance
  • Career Growth/Skills Development - We cultivate a learning culture that contributes to career growth, belonging, risk-taking, + innovation
  • Global Parental Leave - Teammates who are welcoming a new child through birth or adoption will receive a min of 16-weeks of paid leave
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    Position summary

    About the Role

    Senior Applied Scientists are experts in Machine Learning / NLP, responsible for the design and delivery of AI solutions that enhance Thomson Reuters' products. They leverage information retrieval techniques, prompting workflows, model training and evaluation design to build and optimize solutions. Their work ensures AI technologies are effectively aligned with business objectives, driving product innovation and value.

    As a Senior Applied Scientist, you will:

    • Own and manage end-to-end model development, guiding others in research, data engineering, and evaluation .

    • Operate in an agile way, pushing for quick iterations guided by customer s' needs .

    • Be accountable for all research deliverables on small to medium sized projects

    • Communicate research in peer reviewed publications and d evelop patentable ideas ensuring competitiveness of the company's products and services.

    • Work with stakeholders to define scope, determine feasibility, and translate business/customer objectives into technical requirements .

    • Partner effectively with Engineering to ensure well-managed software delivery and co-design ML Ops processes related to model monitoring, evaluation, and retraining .

    About You

    You're a fit for the role of Senior Applied Scientist if your background includes:

    • PhD in a relevant discipline or Master's plus a comparable level of experience

    • 5 + years hands-on experience building IR / NLP systems for commercial applications

    • Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery

    • Demonstrable experience translating complex problems into successful AI applications

    • Outstanding communication, problem solving, and analysis skills

    • Collaborating with Product, Engineering and Business Stakeholders in an agile manner to demonstrate value and iterate with customer feedback

    • (Preferred) Publications at relevant venues such as ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, or KDD.

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    What's in it For You?
    You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

    • Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

    • Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

    • Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

    • Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

    • Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

    • Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we've never talked about with as much pride as we should - we are one of the only companies on the planet 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.

    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 26,000 employees across more than 70 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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    Why you should apply for a job to Thomson Reuters:

  • Ranked as one of the Best Companies for Women in 2020
  • 4.2/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.6/5 in supportive management
  • 83% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 89% would recommend this company to other women
  • 91% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Flex My Way Program - This program builds upon our flexible work/hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance
  • Career Growth/Skills Development - We cultivate a learning culture that contributes to career growth, belonging, risk-taking, + innovation
  • Global Parental Leave - Teammates who are welcoming a new child through birth or adoption will receive a min of 16-weeks of paid leave