Thomson Reuters

Lead Applied Scientist, Legal Tech

Thomson Reuters

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead an applied research team throughout the full product development life cycle from ideation and PoC through to production scaling and feedback driven iteration
  • Be fully accountable for all research deliverables
  • Provide input to the business and Labs leadership on long-term AI strategy
  • Lead and drive stakeholder engagement with other functions (Product, Engineering, Design)
  • Develop in-depth knowledge of customer problems and data
  • Maintain scientific and technical expertise in one or more relevant areas as demonstrated through product deliverables, published research, and intellectual property
  • Identify state of the art technology relevant to TR products and leverage them to create value for TR customers
  • Mentor and coach scientists and engineers on best practices and fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • PhD in a relevant discipline or Master’s plus a comparable level of experience
  • 7+ years of hands-on experience building NLP / IR 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)