Lead Research Engineer, AI Solutions

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 147000 - 273000

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About the Role:

In this opportunity as aLead Research Engineer you will:

Be a Leader: Provide technical leadership partnering with other engineers and applied scientists to develop and improve methodology and evolve the technology stack.

Develop and Deliver:Applying modern AI development practices you will be involved across the software development lifecycle buildingtestingand delivering high-quality solutions.

Be a Team Player:Working in a collaborative team-oriented environment you will share information value diverse ideas partner with cross-functional and remote teams.

Be an Agile Person:With a strong sense of urgency and a desire to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment you will deliver timely solutions.

Be Innovative:You are empowered to try new approaches and learn new technologies. You will contribute innovative ideas create solutions and be accountable for end-to-end deliveries.

Be an Effective Communicator:Through dynamic engagement and communication with cross-functional partners and team members you will effectively articulate ideas and collaborate on technical developments.

About You:

Education & Experience:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field.

8 years of software engineering experience including 4 years of NLP and/or AI engineering

Proven experience leading technical workstreams and mentoring engineers in fast-paced cross-functional environments.

Technical Expertise:

Deep proficiency in Python and its ML/NLP ecosystem (e.g. PyTorch Jax NumPy Pandas scikit-learn PyTorch spaCy SentenceTransformers).

Strong understanding of modern ML techniques and the ability to apply integrate and deploy them into real-world systems.

Familiarity with empirical methodology and efficient AI Evaluation agentic design and context engineering.

Experience with cloud-native development and infrastructure (AWS Azure or similar) automation and DevOps practices.

Mindset & Collaboration:

Demonstrated ability to move fast prioritize impact and deliver high-quality results in ambiguous or evolving contexts.

Comfortable navigating and communicating across technical and non-technical teams to remove blockers and accelerate progress.

Passion for innovation continuous learning and applying emerging technologies to solve complex problems.

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Whats in it For You

Hybrid Work Model: Weve 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.
Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities whether caring for family giving back to the community or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrows challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow lead and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation two company-wide Mental Health Days off access to the Headspace app retirement savings tuition reimbursement employee incentive programs and resources for mental physical and financial wellbeing.
Culture: Globally recognized award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging flexibility work-life balance and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers Compete to Win Challenge (Y)our Thinking Act Fast / Learn Fast and Stronger Together.
Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally 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.

In the United States Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health dental vision disability and life insurance programs as well as a competitive 401k plan with company addition Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation sick and safe paid time off paid holidays (including two company mental health days off) parental leave sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City San Francisco Los Angeles and/or Irvine CA; McLean VA; Washington DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $169300 - $314500. For any eligible US locations unless otherwise noted the base compensation range for this role is $147000 - $273000. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individuals knowledge skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal tax accounting compliance government and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data intelligence and solutions needed to make informed decisions and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice truth and transparency. Reuters part of Thomson Reuters is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news.

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About the Role:In this opportunity as aLead Research Engineer you will: Be a Leader: Provide technical leadership partnering with other engineers and applied scientists to develop and improve methodology and evolve the technology stack. Develop and Deliver:Applying modern AI development practices yo...