Senior Applied Scientist, Search & Information Retrieval

Eagan, MN - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

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Job Summary

New Position: This position is open due to an existing vacancy to support our evolving business needs.

Senior Applied Scientist Search & Information Retrieval

About the Role

This role sits within Thomson Reuters Labs. You will design build and ship information retrieval and NLP systems that directly power Westlaw Practical Law and Checkpoint. The expectation is production-grade measurable impact at scale for legal professionals globally.

You will own technical delivery end-to-end across large-scale search system design low-latency retrieval and evaluation framework development. You will work closely with product and engineering to move from problem definition to shipped reliable systems.

About You

You hold a PhD in Computer Science AI NLP Information Retrieval or a related field or a Masters with equivalent depth of industry experience with 5 years of post-degree industry experience building and deploying IR and NLP systems in production commercial settings. You publish you ship and you measure success by what performs in production at scale.

What Youll Do

Design and deploy large-scale information retrieval systems with explicit focus on search performance latency optimisation and retrieval quality at scale
Own end-to-end model development across research data engineering evaluation and production deployment
Design rigorous evaluation frameworks component-level and end-to-end covering latency metrics and relevance judgement
Translate business and customer objectives into concrete technical requirements scoping feasibility and delivery milestones
Partner with engineering on software delivery MLOps processes model monitoring evaluation pipelines and retraining workflows
Operate iteratively in an agile environment driving quick cycles guided by customer feedback
Communicate research through peer-reviewed publications and develop patentable ideas that sustain the competitiveness of Thomson Reuters products
Guide and mentor junior scientists across research data engineering and evaluation

Required Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science AI NLP Information Retrieval or a related field or Masters with equivalent post-degree industry experience required
5 years of post-degree industry experience building and shipping IR and NLP systems into production not research-only experience
Publications at ACL EMNLP NAACL NeurIPS ICLR SIGIR KDD or equivalent
Production Python and hands-on experience with PyTorch and Hugging Face Transformers

Hands-on production depth required in:

Large-scale information retrieval system design including index architecture query optimisation and latency-constrained retrieval
Search evaluation methodology: latency benchmarking and rigorous offline and online evaluation framework design
NLP system development for commercial applications classification extraction ranking or generation
Translating complex ambiguous business problems into scoped deliverable AI solutions
Collaborating with product engineering and business stakeholders in agile delivery settings

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with OpenSearch or Elasticsearch in research or production settings index design query optimisation performance analysis
Legal domain search legal IR or legal NLP experience
AzureML or AWS SageMaker

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Whats in it For You

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.

Our use of AI within the recruitment process Thomson Reuters utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our global recruitment process. Unless you opt-out our AI system will assess the information provided by you and compare it to the requirements listed for the role and present the result to our recruitment personnel for further review. The AI system acts as a supporting tool but there is always a human making the decision if you will be considered for the role.

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. For any eligible US locations unless otherwise noted the base compensation range for this role is $127400 USD - $236600 USD. For Ontario Canada the base compensation range for this role is $100000 CAD - $145000 CAD. 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. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

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