Senior Applied Scientist II

Bengaluru - India

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 5 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

We experiment we build we deliver. We support the organization and our customers through applied research in document processing informational retrieval and natural language processing. We work closely with product and domain experts to identify compelling solutions at the intersection of user needs and technical feasibility. Our team is responsible for designing the next generation of tax and accounting software for Tax Professionals and Corporates in the US and across the global markets. We own AI innovation for Thomson Reuters core tax products including CoCounsel for Tax Checkpoint Edge Cloud Audit Suite SurePrep and ONESOURCE.
Were seeking innovators to help expand our Document AI capabilities and impact. At Thomson Reuters Labs we combine rigorous research with applied development to solve real-world challenges. From enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning to creating new skills for task-specific applications we drive impactful solutions for professionals worldwide.
About the Role:
As a Senior Applied Scientist you will:
Innovate: Develop new skills and capabilities for Document AI focusing on areas such as document classification data extraction and reasoning improvement. Lead research initiatives in LLM benchmarking grounding LLM agents and enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models.
Build & Experiment: Design test and deploy state-of-the-art models that expand Document AI ability to address complex real-world tasks.
Collaborate: Partner with engineering teams product managers and stakeholders to translate complex challenges into impactful solutions.
Mentor & Lead: Guide and support junior researchers fostering a culture of learning creativity and collaboration.
Communicate: Publish findings at top-tier conferences (e.g. NeurIPS ACL EMNLP SIGIR) and contribute to patents ensuring our solutions are cutting-edge and competitive.

About You

Youre a fit for the role of Senior Applied Scientist II - if your background includes:
PhD in a relevant discipline or Masters plus a comparable level of experience
7 - 10 years of hands-on experience building NLP / IR systems / Document Processing Systems for commercial applications
Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery
Demonstrable experience translating complex problems into successful AI applications
Professional experience scaling yourself and leading through others in an applied research setting
Outstanding communication problem-solving and analysis skills
Collaborating with Product Engineering and other business stakeholders in an agile manner to demonstrate value and iterate with customer feedback
Publications at relevant venues such as ACL EMNLP NAACL NeurIPS ICLR SIGIR or KDD. (Preferred).

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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.

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.

As a global business we rely on the unique backgrounds perspectives and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

We experiment we build we deliver. We support the organization and our customers through applied research in document processing informational retrieval and natural language processing. We work closely with product and domain experts to identify compelling solutions at the intersection of user needs...

We experiment we build we deliver. We support the organization and our customers through applied research in document processing informational retrieval and natural language processing. We work closely with product and domain experts to identify compelling solutions at the intersection of user needs and technical feasibility. Our team is responsible for designing the next generation of tax and accounting software for Tax Professionals and Corporates in the US and across the global markets. We own AI innovation for Thomson Reuters core tax products including CoCounsel for Tax Checkpoint Edge Cloud Audit Suite SurePrep and ONESOURCE.
Were seeking innovators to help expand our Document AI capabilities and impact. At Thomson Reuters Labs we combine rigorous research with applied development to solve real-world challenges. From enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning to creating new skills for task-specific applications we drive impactful solutions for professionals worldwide.
About the Role:
As a Senior Applied Scientist you will:
Innovate: Develop new skills and capabilities for Document AI focusing on areas such as document classification data extraction and reasoning improvement. Lead research initiatives in LLM benchmarking grounding LLM agents and enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models.
Build & Experiment: Design test and deploy state-of-the-art models that expand Document AI ability to address complex real-world tasks.
Collaborate: Partner with engineering teams product managers and stakeholders to translate complex challenges into impactful solutions.
Mentor & Lead: Guide and support junior researchers fostering a culture of learning creativity and collaboration.
Communicate: Publish findings at top-tier conferences (e.g. NeurIPS ACL EMNLP SIGIR) and contribute to patents ensuring our solutions are cutting-edge and competitive.

About You

Youre a fit for the role of Senior Applied Scientist II - if your background includes:
PhD in a relevant discipline or Masters plus a comparable level of experience
7 - 10 years of hands-on experience building NLP / IR systems / Document Processing Systems for commercial applications
Experience writing production code and ensuring well-managed software delivery
Demonstrable experience translating complex problems into successful AI applications
Professional experience scaling yourself and leading through others in an applied research setting
Outstanding communication problem-solving and analysis skills
Collaborating with Product Engineering and other business stakeholders in an agile manner to demonstrate value and iterate with customer feedback
Publications at relevant venues such as ACL EMNLP NAACL NeurIPS ICLR SIGIR or KDD. (Preferred).

#LI-AD1

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.

About Us

Learn more on how to protect yourself from fraudulent job postings here.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on .

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Key Skills

Laboratory Experience
Mammalian Cell Culture
Biochemistry
Assays
Protein Purification
Research Experience
Next Generation Sequencing
Research & Development
cGMP
Cell Culture
Molecular Biology
Flow Cytometry

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