Lead Applied Scientist - Legal Tech
Thomson Reuters
full-time
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Location: 🇨🇭 Switzerland
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Senior
About the role
- Lead an applied research team through the full product development lifecycle from ideation and PoC through to production scaling and feedback-driven iteration
- Be fully accountable for all research deliverables and provide input on long-term AI strategy
- Lead and drive stakeholder engagement with Product, Engineering, and Design
- Develop in-depth knowledge of customer problems and data and collaborate with domain experts
- Leverage information retrieval techniques, prompting workflows, and model training/evaluation to build and optimize solutions
- Identify state-of-the-art technology relevant to Thomson Reuters products and apply it to create customer value
- Mentor and coach scientists and engineers to foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
- Drive AI innovation for Thomson Reuters LegalTech products and ensure alignment of AI technologies with business objectives
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
- Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering and other business stakeholders in an agile manner
- Publications at relevant venues (ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, SIGIR, KDD) preferred
- Maintain scientific and technical expertise in one or more relevant areas
- Knowledge of information retrieval techniques, prompting workflows, model training and evaluation design