Senior Inference Engineer AI I

Thomson Reuters is seeking a Senior Inference Engineer AI. This person will collaborate with platform teams to enhance capacity forecasting for AI workloads and work with Product Data Science Architecture and Enterprise AI teams to onboard new research models into production.

About the Role

As a Senior Inference Engineer AI responsibilities include/you will:

• Within Platform Engineering and Enterprise AI Services an AI Inference Engineer is responsible for productionizing optimizing and scaling AI and LLM workloads that power TRs AI driven products.
• This role ensures that our trained modelsfrom classical ML to generative AIrun efficiently across TRs multi cloud footprint (AWS Azure GCP OCI) meet strict enterprise reliability requirements and integrate seamlessly with our data backbone (Snowflake OpenSearch vector search API managed model routing).
• The successful candidate will help build the next generation of TRs AI infrastructure working alongside cloud engineering data engineering product teams and AI Services.
• Optimize LLMs and ML models for high-performance inference using techniques such as quantization pruning distillation and hardware specific tuning
• Deploy and scale inference workloads on GPUs across AWS Azure GCP and internal Kubernetes clusters ensuring predictable performance during peak traffic hours especially during business hours
• Implement routing and failover strategies for OpenAI/Anthropic/Vertex AI traffic
• Integrate models into production grade APIs supporting TR products and enterprise workflows.
• Develop highly optimized environment and eliminate performance bottlenecks to reduce latency.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineering teams (Landing Zones Network Storage Compute AI) to ensure inference workloads align with TRs cloud native patterns (AWS Azure GCP OCI)
• Build and optimize containerized inference pipelines using Kubernetes for large-scale distributed workloads
• Ensure compliance with TRs AI standards for deployment monitoring governance and drift detection
• Profile inference performance identify GPU/CPU bottlenecks and optimize compute utilization across heterogeneous hardware
• Implement observability and health monitoring for inference pipelines ensuring reliability of enterprise AI services
• Collaborates closely with AI engineers to invent new quantization techniques improve numerical precision and explore nonstandard architectures and support the scale out of AI infrastructure during critical releases and global product rollouts
• Partner with Cloud Engineers (Azure AWS GCP) to develop guardrails and automation that support inference workloads

About You

You are a potential fit for the role Senior Inference Engineer AI if your background includes:

• 5 years of relevant experience
• Strong understanding of ML/LLM fundamentals and inference optimization techniques.
• Hands-on experience with GPU programming (CUDA preferred) inference runtimes (TensorRT ONNX
• Runtime) and deep learning frameworks (PyTorch/TensorFlow)
• Proficiency in Python and at least one systems language (C strongly preferred for performance
• critical inference paths)
• Experience deploying AI workloads to AWS/GCP/Azure and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with vector search systems (OpenSearch vectors) and retrieval augmented generation pipelines
• Knowledge of distributed systems microservices CI/CD and cloud native architecture

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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.

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About Us

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