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Senior Research Engineer (Foundational Research, Machine Learning)
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đź“… Date Posted

Jan 29, 2025

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CONTRACTOR

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London

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Unknown

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Job Location: London, UK
Job Location Type: Hybrid
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level

Are you a curious and open-minded individual with an interest in state-of-the-art machine learning engineering and research? Thomson Reuters Labs is seeking a Research Engineer with a passion for solving challenging machine learning problems in a data-rich, complex academic environment.

What does Thomson Reuters Labs do?
We experiment, we build, we deliver. We support the organization and our product teams through foundational research and development of new products and technologies. The Labs innovate collaboratively across our core segments in Legal, Tax & Accounting, Government, and Reuters News. We undertake a diverse portfolio of projects while investing in long-term research for the future.

As a Senior Research Engineer, you will be part of a diverse global team of experts. We hire world-leading specialists in ML/NLP/GenAI as well as Engineering to drive the company’s leading internal AI model development, fueled by an unprecedented wealth of data and powered by state-of-the-art technical infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to contribute to research publications as well as contribute to our proprietary AI model research & development. Thomson Reuters Labs is known for consistently delivering successful data-driven Artificial Intelligence solutions in support of high-growth products that serve Thomson Reuters customers in new and exciting ways.

About The Role
In this opportunity, as Senior Research Engineer you will:

- Innovate: You will have the opportunity to try new and/or innovate new ML/NLP/IR/GenAI approaches and enjoy mentoring by world-leading experts. You will contribute ideas and work on solving real-world challenges using a wealth of data not otherwise available.
- Engineer and Develop: You can be involved in the entire research & model development lifecycle; brainstorming, designing, building, and delivering high-quality software frameworks that enable your colleagues to do world-class research.
- Collaborate: Working on a collaborative global team of engineers and scientists both within Thomson Reuters and our academic partners at world-leading universities.

About You
You're a fit for the role if your background includes:

Required Qualifications:
- Relevant degree in a technical discipline.
- Work experience in a challenging engineering setting; building high-quality software frameworks for research.
- Excellent programming, debugging ,and system design skills.
- Excellent communication skills to report present software designs findings clearly; both orally writing.
- Curious innovative disposition capable devising novel; well-founded algorithmic solutions relevant problems.
- Self-driven attitude ability work limited supervision.
- Familiarity cloud tools such Amazon AWS; MS Azure; Google Cloud.
- Comfortable working fast-paced; agile environments managing uncertainty ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Contributions publications relevant venues such NeurIPS; ICML; ICLR ; ACL ; EMNLP ; NAACL ; ICLR or similar .
- Experience working relevant state-of-the-art engineering topics relevant large language model (LLMs) research such distributed computing ,building scalable data pipeline systems automated evaluation systems or depth knowledge GPUs parallel computing platforms CUDA .
- Previous experience working large-scale machine learning systems .
- Strong software/or infrastructure engineering skills evidenced code contributions popular open-source libraries .

Other key points:
Plenty data compute high-impact problems : Our engineers scientists get play large datasets discover new capabilities insights support high-impact products customers . Thomson Reuters best known globally respected Reuters News agency ,but company also leading source information legal corporate tax Accounting professionals . We over 60 ,000 TBs worth legal regulatory news tax data . also provide access major cloud computing platforms researchers engineers .

What's In It For You?
You will join our inclusive culture world-class talent where we committed personal professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model : We’ve adopted flexible hybrid working environment (2–3 days week office depending role) office-based roles while delivering seamless experience digitally physically connected

Wellbeing : Comprehensive benefit plans flexible supportive benefits work-life balance : flexible vacation two company-wide Mental Health Days Off work another location total 8 weeks year four those weeks can out country remaining country Headspace app subscription retirement savings tuition reimbursement employee incentive programs resources mental physical financial wellbeing .

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

Learning Development : LinkedIn Learning access internal Talent Marketplace opportunities work 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 Governance (ESG) initiatives local global impact

Purpose Driven Work : superpower we’ve never talked about much pride should – one only companies planet helps customers pursue justice truth transparency Together professionals institutions serve help uphold rule law turn wheels commerce catch bad actors report facts provide trusted unbiased information people over world

Do you want part team helping re-invent way knowledge professionals work ? How about team works every day create more transparent just inclusive future ? At Thomson Reuters been doing just that almost years . Our industry-leading products services include highly specialized information-enabled software tools legal tax accounting compliance professionals combined world’s most global news services –Reuters . help these professionals their jobs better creating more time them focus things matter most advising advocating negotiating governing informing

We powered talents employees across than countries where everyone has chance contribute grow professionally flexible work environments celebrate diversity inclusion At time when objectivity accuracy fairness transparency under attack consider duty pursue them Sound exciting ? Join us help shape industries move society forward

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