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Thomson Reuters Holdings Inc Senior Research Engineer Foundational Research, M in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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 enables 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 patterns 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 and present software designs and findings clearly, both orally and in writing.
Curious and innovative disposition capable of devising novel, well-founded algorithmic solutions to relevant problems.
Self-driven attitude and ability to work with limited supervision.
Familiarity with cloud tools such as Amazon AWS, MS Azure, or Google Cloud.
Comfortable working in fast-paced, agile environments, managing uncertainty and ambiguity.
Preferred Qualifications:
Contributions to publications at relevant venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, ICLR, or similar.
Experience working on relevant state-of-the-art engineering topics relevant to large language model (LLMs) research such as distributed computing, building of scalable data pipeline systems, automated evaluation systems or in-depth knowledge of GPUs and parallel computing platforms such as CUDA.
Previous experience working on large-scale machine learning systems.
Strong software and/or infrastructure engineering skills, as evidenced by code contributions to popular open-source libraries.
Other key points:
Plenty of data, compute, and high-impact problems: Our engineers and scientists get to play with large datasets and discover new capabilities and insights in support of our high-impact products and customers. Thomson Reuters is best known for the globally respected Reuters Ne
